A question of survival and not morality PINNED Following the current events abroad or politicking in general I like to formulate here my own stand on issues, one that I have been taking now for a while already. No subject matter on today's political landscape is more important than taking a...See More »
From Russia with loveStrange, but I haven't seen that movie for a long while now. Perhaps it's because I've been depressed about the country eversince Putin took over from Jeltsin. Yes, that's a very long wile ago but in my deep core of being I haven't changed much. I'm...See More »
What's importantThere's months now something that is really upsetting me. It's the war conducted by the IDF in Gaza. Yes, I'm not against a state defending itself. No, I'm not a hypocrite because of it. I was for the defence of the Ukraine, but as some of you might...See More »
Trump and Kubrick Oh yes, perhaps Trump did master the Kubrick Stare, the so-called cinematic pose made famous by Jack Nicholson and Malcolm McDowell. So what? Now I've been wondering for years when it will ever end. After all a Kubrick movie would have ended by now...See More »
Brave New World anno 2023 Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1931 warned of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies. I would wager that in our times (less modern but nevertheless somehow more advanced) there are indeed many more...See More »
Looking back & still pondering upon America On more than one occasion Henry Kissinger had great insight in but very little sense of where Europe and America were heading towards, and I like to think now that Braudel was indeed right when he made us compare the slowness of change of character...See More »
The same yet again # 1 : the issue of immigration into Britain It's near to 60 years ago that the shared tv interview was conducted. Now I'm not pretending that we're any less in anything today but we need to take care. Why should we need to dumb down? Why should we pretend that an objection of having to read...See More »
Upon the third, or middle way out of conflict Even from a legal standpoint, Tibet has to this day not lost its statehood. It is an independent state under illegal occupation. Neither China's military invasion nor the continuing occupation has transferred the sovereignty of Tibet to China. Where...See More »
Konrad Adenauer (1965) interviewed by Günther Gaus Let me now introduice you all to a few people I've admired from afar. Yes, I know that they will be from different countries and speaking in their own languages. Here is my first choice, especially concerning a country's foreign policy, the first...See More »