The Wind Energy Illusion
Wind energy is sold to the public as clean, free, and essential for the future. But behind the glossy brochures and political promises lies a far more complicated reality —….
West refuses to condemn slavery at UN
The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it…..
Untouchable by Design: The Long, Troubled History of Political Immunity
Parliamentary immunity was born to protect legislators from kings. Today, it too often protects lawmakers from the people they are supposed to serve — and the case for abolishing it….
The Moral Hazards Of War And How They Accelerate Technocracy
Moral hazard is when your brother-in-law borrows your car and drives it like a maniac, because if he wrecks it, it’s your car, not his. The risk is yours. The….
371 computer scientists warn against age verification on the internet
In a public statement, 371 computer scientists and cybersecurity experts from 30 countries, the initial signatories, warn of the dangerous side effects of age verification as an access barrier on….
Children Are Stopping to Read. Short Videos and Social Media Are Rewiring Their Brains
Finishing an entire book was, until twenty years ago, unremarkable for most children. Today it has become an exceptional feat. Teachers, psychologists, and parents around the world are reporting the….
Wag the Dog: How a U.S. Strike on Iran Would Perfectly Bury the Epstein Files Scandal
In 1997, Barry Levinson brought to cinemas Wag the Dog — a cynical political thriller about a presidential spin doctor who hires a Hollywood producer to stage a fictitious war….
1984 Is Not the Past. It Is Today. How Orwell’s Dystopia Became Living Reality
The Book That Was Meant to Be a Warning When George Orwell completed his novel 1984 in 1948, he was writing in a fever, dying of tuberculosis on the remote….
Full-Out, Digitized Technocratic Rule Is Not Around the Corner, It Is Next Door
“They failed to see that globalisation was merely a tactic to prise power from nation states towards international conglomerates. Once the power was siphoned from the people and democratic control….
Do We Live in the Matrix? Why It Can Neither Be Proven nor Disproved
The question of whether we live in the “Matrix,” that is, in some form of simulated reality, is one of the most intriguing problems of contemporary philosophy and modern thinking….
