Category: Politics
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Power and Promise – Utopian Propaganda & Orwell’s Animal Farm
In the preface to his Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm, George Orwell says that his reason for writing the novel was to reveal what he believed to be the Soviet myth underlying Socialism – the political and economic model that he wholeheartedly embraced. According to Orwell, nothing had caused greater harm to the Socialist movement…
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Utopian Politics (2012-2025)
Remember that in Greek, the world ‘utopia’ means ‘nowhere’. Is ‘nowhere’ where you really want to go?
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The Decline of Democracy
Like Locke, our forefathers believed that government should respect the rights of its citizens. Unlike Locke, they were not interested in constraining an existing government (i.e. the king) to achieve this.
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The Curious Case of Ms C (continued) & Her Fiery Mars
According to the Liber Hermetis, she not only will she be ‘skilled’ and ‘daring’, but she will ‘complete quickly’ what she undertakes. But because her Mars is in the terms of Mercury, she will be ‘hot-headed’ and her ‘reason is clouded’.
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Death of Democracy spells rise of Fascism
Bottom line – in troubled times, fascism appear more capable of providing basic needs than does democracy.
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Death of a Nation-State?
As the recent rhetoric of American presidential candidates demonstrates, the importance of this distinction between us and them should not be underestimated – but then again, in a nation-state where the demographics (legal or illegal) are so fast changing surely it is not ethnicity holding together groups as diverse as Latinos, European whites, and African-Americans.…
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Financial Times
if taxpayers understood a bit more about the high stakes involved between US corporation taxes and their the health of the American economy – and the politicians that are involved – they might vote differently in the upcoming election