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How Gaza Has Ripped Off the Mask
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Rishi Sunak, Fascism & the Destruction of Gaza
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of the state and corporate power.” Benito Mussolini was one charming…
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Israel as a Terrorist State
The settler state and the monopoly on language and terror
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European Spinelessness & Subservience Reaches New Depths
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The Grand Chessboard: A cold and unemotional look at the US proxy war in Ukraine
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Big Pharma: A Big List of Crimes
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Rishi Sunak, Fascism & the Destruction of Gaza
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Israel as a Terrorist State
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Politics and Playing Pirates
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Pfizer, ‘Lazy Mickey’, and a Foolproof Future Business Model
“We’ll have to prepare for the next one… that, I’d say, will get attention this time.” (he and mad evil-bitch wife smile evilly) Bill Gates Erectile…
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On the Eternal Munificence of Earth and the Gross Perversion of Money
In the beginning all was formless and void, and darkness covered the face of the deep, and the spirit of the Master Poet hovered over the abyss. And the…
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European Spinelessness & Subservience Reaches New Depths
It's a brave new world, say goodbye to the old...
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A Meditation on Death
I’ve seen a dead body once in my life outside of a funereal context. It was in India, I was wandering around a small city in Maharashtra, can’t remember…
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On Writing
Let’s discuss this plainly, without any academic guff. Writing. Why we do it. What we get out of it. It’s a simple enough business, putting words on…
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Torches and pitchforks: Are 'antivaxxers' still the bogeymen par excellence?
What to say about this time last year, huh? When ‘antivaxxer’ was the epithet for the lowest of society’s low, the worst kind of antisocial wingnut we…
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The Grand Chessboard: A cold and unemotional look at the US proxy war in Ukraine
War is a game. A tactical game, a game of strategy, a game of high stakes. Planned, analysed, revised, strategised, fought, and ultimately won or lost…
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