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A Kidnapped West in the Times of Genocide
"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.” — Karl Kraus in Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind), 1919 One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.  —Karl Kraus, in Harry Zohn (ed.), Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths -…
POLITICS
Rescuing Western Politics Under Gaza’s Moral Burden
By Narendra Pachkhédé "The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is                seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian."                 ― Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics, (Second Edition), 1981 In these fraught times, with the 2024 Democratic National…
POLITICS Fiction Uncategorized
Larry the cat
Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation.  But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…
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Your Privileges Are Not Universal
Stencilled in red on the walls of Santiago, Chile is a statement of fact: ‘your privileges are not universal’ (tus privilegios no son universales). This is a factual declaration because the privileges of power and property are not shared across the gaping class divide. Consider the fact that before the pandemic struck last year, over…
Philosophy Uncategorized
“He Has Lit a Funeral Pyre in Everyone’s Home”
Dear Kamran Baradaran, Your question is complex—“what does it mean to be a philosopher in the middle of a pandemic in India”. Philosopher has no adjective—national, linguistic, and even of schools. In your question “the pan” or “the whole“ of the “pandemic” (what has befallen the whole) speaks of that which exceeds adjectives such as…