Gaia and Chthonia, the two inseparable faces of our Earth
- Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν
The Italian philosopher Agamben takes us on a poetic and etymological journey back to antiquity to finally bring us back to our coronaviral present. The future has an ancient heart
The 'Venus of Willendorf', a statuette from the Upper Palaeolithic ...
Kim No-VAX does DARPA
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
I have been going through my Asia Times archives selecting reports and columns for a new e-book on the Forever Wars – Afghanistan and Iraq. But then, out of the blue, I found this palimpsest, originally published by Asia Times in February ...
The secret and sordid world of John le Carré remained much loved till the end
- Sidharth Bhatia सिद्धार्थ भाटिया
The writer showed that the end of the Cold War had not dimmed his fervour of taking on the world’s villains.
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and the Cold War ended, fans of John le Carré (real name David Cornwell) wondered ...
Onavo: Israeli cyber unit veterans help Facebook destroy competition
- Refaella Goichman רפאלה גויכמן
Israeli-based Onavo, which was acquired by Facebook in 2013, plays a central role in Facebook's efforts to thwart competition, U.S. suit alleges
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing ...
No escape from our techno-feudal world
Book review of 'Technoféodalisme', by Cédric Durand
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service ...
Foreword to the book ‘Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988’, by Nasser Mohajer
- Angela Davis آنجلا دیویس
In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political prisoners around the country were secretly brought before ...
Maradona: the fragile god of the Global South
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
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Football deity played on the global pitch non-stop, a wild life of dizzying highs and demonic lows forever in the public eye
His life was a running planetary pop opera ...
Netflix’s 'The Crown' reminds us Thatcher was just like Trump – an outsider to the ruling class, surrounded by a ‘swamp’
- George Galloway
Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of the Iron Lady in the lavish production reminds us that, though she was a Tory PM, Margaret Thatcher was no conservative, but a handbag-wielding wrecking ball to all that was ‘great’ about Britain. ...
Pirates of the Mediterranean
- Robert Harris
An article from 2006, which has lost none of its topicality.
In the autumn of 68 B.C. the world's only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome's port at Ostia was set on fire, ...
Journalism and ‘the words of power’
- Robert Fisk (1946-2020) روبرت فيسك
The relationship between power and the media is about semantics, Robert Fisk told The Al Jazeera Forum in 2010.
Robert Fisk at Al Jazeera Forum 2010. Photo Mohamed Nanabhay
Editor’s Note: Robert Fisk, veteran Middle East correspondent ...
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