Month: June 2019

Modernity’s Sacraments

Modernity’s Sacraments

Modernity is an inherently religious project. It is highly “secular” only in a very refined meaning of the term. This is only one of many inner contradictions within the modern project. It is thoroughly committed to the creation of a better world, while holding to philosophies that would deny the ability to actually define “better.”

Eurasianism

Eurasianism: The Struggle For The Multi-Polar World

Three decades ago, American pragmatic commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote ‘The end of History and the Last man’ proclaiming the end of ideological war and celebrated the victory of the liberal order. The proclaimed words were no different from the famous speech of General George Marshall’s famous speech at Harvard University, […]

Mark Esper

Temps And Professionals At The Pentagon

The political climate in the US will also play a certain role, since the new election campaign is already under way. And it is important for Trump to show the effectiveness of his work by taking the credit for as many achievements as possible. So stability in the US defence industry will only benefit his ratings.

Surveillance and Human Rights

Violent Voyeurism: Surveillance, Spyware and Human Rights

Surveillance is merely a variant of violent voyeurism, the human behind the camera or visual apparatus observing behaviour in a setting, often private. Its premise is privacy’s violation; its working assumption is privacy’s irrelevance; officially tolerated such a concept is unofficially repudiated. Studies on surveillance do as much to reveal […]

US Military Strength

Could US Nuclear Costs Be Reduced?

The Arms Control Association (ACA), a US-based non-governmental organisation known for its developments in deterring the use of nuclear missiles, anti-ballistic missiles and other types of weapons, as well as for strengthening international security, has prepared a critical report on US President Donald Trump’s nuclear weapons policy and how much […]

Clinton and Thaci

Bill Clinton in Kosovo

This month, former US President Will Jefferson Clinton, keeping company with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, were rubbing shoulders with officials and stage hands in Pristina to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Kosovo intervention by NATO in March 1999.