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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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Risk and Extortion XL: Cyberrisks and Cybersecurity 1
Outline On June 3rd, 2021, The New York Times reported that the United Nations had stated that “a military drone that attacked soldiers during a battle in Libya’s civil war… Read more.
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