Epstein wasn’t selling girls’ bodies, he was selling the experience of impunity. The end product was not the sexual act, but the assurance that there would be no consequences. That’s the supreme commodity in capitalism. The right to transgress without punishment. FULL text translated from Spanish original: “The comparison being made of Pasolini’s Salò film… Read More Epstein, impunity and collective power
Adam Tooze from Chartbook How World War II forged a liberal (Keynesian) view of government in the United States – Alan Brinkley’s classic account Alvin hansen had been one of the principal economic advisers to the New Deal for nearly three years when he traveled to Cincinnati in March 1940 to speak to a group… Read More Alan Brinkley on World War II and American Keynesianism
Indian media estimate the deals could total $10 billion and are expected to focus on air defense systems against missiles and drones. ‘The mini-war with Pakistan last year led to a shift. India woke up’ Hagai Amit In July 2017, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Israel, he and Prime… Read More The Multibillion-dollar Arms Deals Driving India’s Modi’s Visit to Israel
Mau did not operate on latitude, longitude, angles, or mathematical calculations of any kind. He walked, and sailed, under an arching web of stars moving slowly east to west from their rising to their setting points, and knew them so well—more than 100 of them by name, and their associated stars by colour, light and… Read More Pius Mau Piailug, master navigator (1932-2010)
The UN Special Rapporteur joins Mehdi and our Zeteo town hall audience to call out global powers and promote BDS, as a Zionist disinformation campaign tries to cancel her and get her fired Mehdi Hasan and Team Zeteo UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, joins Mehdi in a town hall with Zeteo’s paid subscribers after a disinformation campaign… Read More Francesca Albanese Talks Israel, Epstein and the ‘Orgy of Power’
Marco Rubio asks Europe to help US recolonize Global South (lecture to Munich Security Conference) BIG PROBLEMS TO DISCHARGE THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. This is not a joke. A set of emails… Read More Marco Rubio on Western civilization… (but the American empire can’t get its shit together)
The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It’s beautifully made, but it’s still telling the wrong story… Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.” A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies.… Read More Lord of the Flies
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania chooses not to claim prize at ‘Cinema for Peace’ gathering in Berlin Six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab was killed along with five relatives and two medics sent to rescue her during an Israeli tank attack in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. (Photo: family photo) Berk Kutay Gokmen The director… Read More Director of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ declines ‘Most Valuable Film’ award
Shobhit Mahajan The sight of a long line of tail-lights as I descended the flyover left me with a sinking feeling- it was 8 am on a rain-soaked morning and the tail lights could only mean that there was a traffic jam. I assumed it was a truck or a light goods vehicle which regularly… Read More The Delhi that AI Summit VIPs won’t see – and the one they did
The Jena Declaration affirms that there are no “races” in the biological sense in humans, since the genetic variation within human populations is often greater than the genetic variation between these populations… In the human genome, for example, there is not a single difference among the 3.2 billion base pairs that separates Africans from non-Africans. So not… Read More The Jena Declaration on race and eugenics (2019) / Conference on the concept of ‘race’ at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 2021
After the truth-shower 