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Risk and Extortion L: Racism and Holocaust Remembrance 1
“What he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLIX: The Three Pillars of Hasbara
Shamelessness, Hypocrisy, and Cowardice Yesterday, it was reported that a suspected war-criminal, by the name of Benjamin Netanyahu, appealed to international law to condemn the Iranian bombardment of an Israeli… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLVIII: The Haavara Agreement of 1933
Advance warning: there is nothing original here. It has all been well document and stated for many decades. The only reason I am invoking it here is because despite having… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLVII: Imperialism
Moore’s thesis strongly hinges on European Imperialism as a historical disjuncture. Dialectics helps us to consider the importance of its stroboscopic preparations within medieval Europe. Of course, these were never… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLVI: The Curse of Bourgeois Thinking
The accusation that with the invocation of the concept of Web-of-Life Jason W. Moore aligned himself too much with monism and abandoned the orthodoxy of Dialectical Historical Materialism must have… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLV: οἰκονομία and χρηματιστική
Despite decades of ongoing, unresolved debates among feminists about how conceptions of patriarchy and capitalism should be related to each other, there seems to have emerged a general agreement that… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLIV The Libidinal Economy of Kakistocracy
The USA has now officially become a kakistocracy. Its political culture is immersed in anxiety, neurosis and cowardice, personified by its Leader, King Donald I. The kakistocrat-in-chief may be nothing… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLIII: Drooling over Mossad
Several media reports on the last attack on Iran by Israel have embraced a rhetoric of awe over Mossad. This is not for the first time. As child educated on… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLII: Cyberrisks and Cybersecurity 2
Blind Spots in the Sociology of Risk: Real Abstraction and the Technological Agency of Emerging Computer Viruses It is difficult to speak of “the” Sociology of Risk as if it… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XLI: Naz Shah vs Mike Huckabee
In August 2014, at the height of the Gaza conflict – how much more evidence do we need that it did not start of the 7th of October 2023? –… Read more.
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