Putin, crusaders and barbarians
03.03.2021
Moscow is painfully aware that the US/NATO “strategy” of containment of Russia is already reaching fever pitch. Again.
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Colossus Constrained
03.03.2021
U.S. President Joe Biden has ambitious goals both at home and abroad. On the home front, he promises to “build back better” through enormous investments in COVID-19 pandemic recovery, health care, education, infrastructure, and green technology.
Empire and Katechon
02.03.2021
The empire that contains the katechon must by internal necessity be epoch-making and, at the same time, precisely because of this presence it can never really be successful in its task.
India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech
02.03.2021
THE BANK OF cameras that camped outside Delhi’s sprawling Tihar jail was the sort of media frenzy you would expect to await a prime minister caught in an embezzlement scandal, or perhaps a Bollywood star caught in the wrong bed.
Towards the end of global capitalism
01.03.2021
“Kill all the enemies of the Open Society. The enemies of the Open Society should be killed — tortured if they win through the democratic process. We should abolish democracy,” roars this dragon. “Destroy every obstacle. Humanity — let us destroy it. Put the poison in the vaccines. Let’s do it!” That’s the kind of eschatological fight — the last battle of globalization.
Is an economic cyclogenesis looming?
01.03.2021
The conjunction of a new oil crisis that could raise prices to $ 80 a barrel with the excessive strength of the dollar could cause an economic cyclogenesis of unpredictable results.
The Withholding Power. The Problem of Political Theology
28.02.2021
Paul - or the faithful disciple who interprets or tries to explain his thought - returns in The Second Letter to Thessalonians to the eschatology of The First Letter to Thessalonians in order to warn that the Lord Jesus will not return until the work of his Adversary (Antikeimenos) is complete.
Afghanistan Buries Another Empire
26.02.2021
It’s easy to forget, but the United States by the end of 2001 thought it had won in Afghanistan.
