Many media outlets write about the effectiveness of Iranian drones on the front lines in the former Ukraine. The official agenda also increasingly speaks of visits by official delegations or interest in interaction in one industry or another.
It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself.
“At the rate things are going, we are all going to end up working for the Japanese.”
—Lester Thurow, MIT economist, 1989
“The United States is rapidly becoming a colony of Japan.”
Sir A Conan Doyle: Holmes: Curious: the fact that the dog did not bark when you would expect it so to do.
The poet, WB Yeats, often used in his writings two old Irish folkloric terms: ‘thrall’ and ‘glamour’.
In 1927, Ladipo Solanke – co-founder of the West African Students Union (WASU) – published a book in which he argued that “It took the white race a thousand years to arrive at their present level of advance: it took the Japanese, a Mongol race, 50
Three years ago, Pakistan’s economy shrank, and growth was at minus 0.5 per cent. The following year, 2020-21, the growth rate jumped up to 5.7pc, more than twice the initial target for that year set by the government.
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 is not a nude, as French cultural theorist Paul Virilio points out. It’s a prickly blur. We see no body, but a sequence.
Especially for thinking people, I will briefly outline the reasons for the monstrous war that has unfolded before our eyes in Ukraine. There is nothing worse than a war between social groups of one people.
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