Month: March 2017

For God and Empire 2.0
Why argue about a policy on its merits when instead you can call it emotive names and thus shut down the discussion? The latest example from the Anglosphere: Australian Trade …
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Boys Gone Wild on Tinder
I know that the International Women’s Day has just passed, but please accept this post as a belated present. When publishing the previous three instalments of “Girls Gone Wild on …
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Never trust anyone under 30
When they were singing about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, they didn’t mean the time of endless leaks. But that’s what they’re getting. Yesterday, following the “Vault 7” …
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Vault 7 and the death of privacy
I’m neither an IT expert nor an intelligence insider (twelve years ago when I was publishing the “Good News from Iraq” series, some kind souls suggested I was on the …
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Yes media, there were reds under the bed
In another fake outrage story and anti-Trump hyperventilation, CNN has come across a recording of an interview by Steve Bannon with a journalist and an author Diane West, where the …
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Happy International Women’s Day!
My late mother really lucked out in life, not just because a negligently undiagnosed cancer took her at the way-too-young-for-this-day-and-age age of 63, but also because she always missed out …
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Why people hate media
What did I miss when my blog was offline with technical issues? (It might have been Obama. He bugged me. The whole eight years he was in office.) It strikes …
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Check your hot female privilege
Forget white privilege. Or male privilege. Or white male privilege, which presumably trumps them all (no pun intended), including black male privilege and white female privilege. We need to talk …
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