Generally speaking I would resist discussing emergent ideas until they were more thoroughly worked out. This case is a little different. These ideas are not recent but over 50 years old. When I first had them 50 years ago and discussed them I was met with ‘ that is quite interesting … but beyond my area of speciality.’ In my eyes these ideas would upturn all contemporary history on the one hand and all contemporary philosophy on the other….
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart’ Blaise Pascal ‘Pensee’ There are aspects of life that as a writer I feel need sharing. Our dominant culture often makes communication difficult because it embeds assumptions that are the devil to root out. That is the basis of my series ‘Life on the Hill’. I take every day events but hope to shine a light…
Enough is enough. However much one might admire some of the outspoken views of Douglas Macgregor his outspoken racism must be called out. Macgregor’s interview All the problems of the US are caused by the massive influx of non-Europeans into the US. It is these people who assist in totally rigging elections in large cities for the Democratic Party. In large cities , according to Macgregor, all the voting is fraudulent. Even the Tech entrepreneurs who came to the…
My heart cries out in rage when I hear stories of the gang rape of Palestinian prisoners. We hear such dreadful stories and the people of Israel are openly supporting this descent into moral hell. (select link) Jonathan Ofir has written: ‘The level of sadism enacted upon Palestinians really defies description. Palestinians are now coming forth with the most graphic details about their sexual torture, like this victim on video (trigger warning): “I’ve been shocked by electricity through my anus….
‘‘The world diplomatic front is a screen on which appears the apparent struggle between the Free World and the Communist camp….Behind it the real struggle goes on …’ Henry Kissinger (1955)1 This conflict in Ukraine has exposed the underlying features, previously hidden, of the contemporary world. Europe’s condition as a vassal state was expertly hidden but is now thoroughly revealed. This generates a question: what was the Cold War truly about? What were the US ambitions in Europe? To…
One of the first issues when reviewing critical commentary on the Ukraine war that must be noted is that among these critical parties in the West the context and behaviour of the neo-cons are described as either delusional or irrational. Their politics are seen as based on post-WW2 rhetorics. Col Macgregor repeatedly describes the Europeans and neo-cons as ‘crazy’, ‘delusional’, and full of ‘complete folly and disaster’ in his webcast:1 Two issues arise. First is that claiming the other…
Chinua Achebe ‘Father of African Literature’? One thing can be said about the literary intellectual class in Nigeria with certainty: it is close to bankruptcy. There is a world of difference between coffee room chat and serious intellectual discussion. Serious intellectual discussion requires some research and most Nigerians cannot be bothered with that. Serious intellectual research requires funding. Serious funding. This has not been available in Nigeria in any shape or form since the late 1980’s if not before….
Alex Mercouris in his presentation of 14 April 2024 1asks the question: Does Iran have the capability to develop hypersonic weapons … and then adds ‘by itself’? Alex’s has a curious assumption that Iran has to develop the technology on its own with exclusively national resources. This is a strange assumption as it has never been applied elsewhere. Let us start with the Manhattan Project. This project utilised scientists from all over Europe etc, for example from Hungary, Germany,…
‘O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!’ Walter Scott (Marmion 1808) Western psychohistory generates a complicated web of what becomes self-deception. But Western sceptics seeking justice also become entrapped in this. Western received history portrays the West as active and the rest of the wold as reactive or victims. This often misreads the dynamic of history and takes away agency from others. While many of us are appalled and outraged by the suffering…
At a fundamental level, the Nigerian political problem is straightforward but possibly insoluble. In the 1960’s and 1970’s the politicians showed such graft that the population revolted. The concept of governance was conceived as relatively straightforward. There was an existing economic and foreign policy consensus. This allowed the military to intervene. When the military played along with the consensus they had consent. When they went away from the consensus and ceased to build a consensus they began to rely…
