Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam University of St Andrews Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam is an Iranian-born British national, Oxford graduate, international consultant and social scientist with 28 years’ experience in conflict and post-conflict settings, notably Afghanistan. Afghan children and teenagers have not had much to look forward to since the Taliban
Despite (or, more likely, because of) its being one of the biggest-selling fiction books in history, literary types have an almost reflexive aversion to The Lord of the Rings. Few of their criticisms make sense, but one of the most perplexing is that it is “simplistic” in its treatment
JM White Information Opinion During the Cold War America defined standards of ‘rationality’ and then concluded the Soviets would not use nuclear weapons because rational leaders would not do it; otherwise they would be irrational. Using this standard of rationality gives us an idea of why the leaders of western
I was not surprised to see our mainstream media feature another story of a survivor of Hiroshima recalling the horrors of nuclear weapons as part of their anti-nuclear narrative. This again shows the wilful ignorance our media and political class have of the history of the Pacific Theatre during
Sven Grünewald brownstone.org Sven Grünewald got his Master’s degree in Political Science, Scandinavian studies and Egyptology from Göttingen University in 2004. Since then he has been working as a journalist for different newspapers, magazines, and as a university lecturer for media studies and media ethics. Warning Long Read.
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David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. The events of the past two years have been a wake-up call to those of us who naïvely believed our liberties were more or less secure under
As journalist Abby Martin recently observed, “For my entire life I’ve watched the corporate media sell us war after war… every single time it turns out they lied”. What unwarranted cynicism! I mean, it’s not like they lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction, or Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In the 1930s, German medicine and German healthcare institutions were widely considered the most advanced in the world. However,
It’s not hard to imagine the spittle-flecked outrage that would erupt if Vladimir Putin personally landed a jet Kiev airport and emerged to triumphantly declare, “Mission accomplished!” Yet, that is exactly what US president George W. Bush did in 2003, after illegally invading a foreign nation and overthrowing
Dr Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a
It’s largely forgotten now, but Ronald Reagan made the gaffe heard round the world, when he unknowingly joked into a hot mic, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” Although
According to The Narrative, the Russia-Ukraine war is the Great Moral Struggle of our times. The totalitarian Russian behemoth is waging a war, not just on one of its former provinces, but on Freedom and Democracy itself. Vladimir Putin is no less than the New Hitler (of course, these
NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion While many are celebrating (and rightly so) in response to the easing of mandates and the relinquishing of the vaccine pass, we remain cautiously vigilant. Don’t get me wrong, it’s important to take the time to
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