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Dec. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been more or less standard practice on this blog for a while now that, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, I ask my readers what they want to hear about, and write an essay on that subject for the fifth Wednesday’s post. That’s resulted in some of the stranger essays I’ve published here. Readers who don’t know their way around the lingo of classic ...
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo: via Facebook) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2021 The result of a vote, on Dec. 14, in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophobia, may, possibly, appear to be a positive sign of change, that Washington is finally confronting this socio-political evil. However, conclusions must not be too hasty. Disquietingly, Congress was nea ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2021 Canada’s unpopular general election Sept.20 is increasingly recognized as a mistake by the country’s leading political analysts. However, this mistake could potentially prove to be the very undoing of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in future elections. Sixty-nine percent of Canadians did not think that holding an election during the fo ...
Systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian healthcare have left Palestinian communities extremely vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Fawzi Mahmoud, The Palestine Chronicle) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 27, 2021 Do you remember the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? If not, you are not alone. These ambitious goals, which included the eradication of “extreme p ...
July 10, 2021 (AFP) -- Finance ministers from the G20 richest nations resumed discussions in Venice Saturday to give the green light to a historic deal to tax multinational companies more fairly. The framework for reform, including a minimum global corporate tax rate of 15 percent, was agreed by 131 countries earlier this month and could be in place by 2023. Hailed by those involved as historic, ...
June 30, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things I find fascinating about the deepening twilight of industrial society is how rigid our modern notions of technology have become. Most people these days, asked to imagine a society with technology about as advanced as ours, present something all but identical to what we’ve got now; asked to imagine a society with less advanced technology, they spr ...
Image Credit: Dave Leip The Working Class is Choosing Regress Over Progress, Around the World May 16, 2021 (Eudaimonia and Co) -- The world has a very big problem, and it goes like this: its working classes are increasingly turning to fascism as a way out of the trap of modernity. Let me explain what I mean -- for those of you that haven’t quite connected the dots yet, though I suspect many of yo ...
May 12, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical revival. Here and in the months ahead we’re going to be plunging into the white-hot fires of creation where modern magic was born. Grab your tarot decks and hang on tight. If you can read French, I stron ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudThe Australian Case Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 11. 2021 Australia’s Labor Party’s recognition of Palestine as a State on March 30 is a welcomed position, though it comes with many caveats. Pro-Palestinian activists are justified to question the sincerity of the ALP’s stance and whether Australia’s Labor is genuinely prepared to fully adopt this position should they for ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Jan. 29, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down in every region of the world over the past week, according to a specialised AFP database. Here is the state of the pandemic worldwide: Slowdown worldwide The pace of the pandemic slackened for the second week in a row, with 11 percent fewer new cases per day, or 564,300, compared with the previous ...
Dr Xingyuan (Mike) Xu with the integrated optical microcomb chip, which forms the core part of the optical neuromorphic processor. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology Jan. 7, 2021 (TechXplore) -- An international team of researchers led by Swinburne University of Technology has demonstrated the world's fastest and most powerful optical neuromorphic processor for artificial intelligence (AI ...
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