by Fulano de Tal | Oct 18, 2014 | Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Uncategorized
The second Gulf War When the events subsequent to September 11 2001 took place, namely the creation of a pretext for the invasion of Iraq, a widespread cynicism developed in the UK regarding the putative evidence of mass destruction and Al Qa’ida. Equally, there was...
by Fulano de Tal | Oct 4, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
We feel it is necessary, once again, to make an attempt to understand the continuing appeal of nationalismi, and to seek its origins as they are inferred in the disciplines of group theory and anthropology. Regrettably, and in counterpoint to Marx’s romantic vision of...
by Fulano de Tal | Aug 30, 2014 | Politics & Law
Colonialism and the Nation-State In essence, colonialism is the correct term to describe all politico-cartographic formations and the logic which, at a ‘high’ level, governs all hierarchical relations between communities. We would split the term in two. On...
by Fulano de Tal | Aug 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Some UK Observations on Race in the USA Following two recent police shootings of black men in Ferguson, Missouri 1 The fact of the domestic mass exploitation of enslaved African people in agrarian production has made an indelible difference to race relations in...
by Fulano de Tal | Aug 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
It seems oxymoronic to most people on this side of the pond to equate personal liberty with the right to bear arms. This attitude would appear to suggest that freedom is predicated on the entitlement to cause harm or death to others, and to spend one’s...
