On the evening of America’s ‘Election Day’ in November 2012, I was in line waiting for my drink at the coffee shop on the main floor of American University’s “School of International Service” (SIS) building where I ran into one of my professors who would later become my thesis adviser. I asked him what he … Continue reading Rotten Apples →

The little Love-god lying once asleep,Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keepCame tripping by; but in her maiden handThe fairest votary took up that fireWhich many legions of true hearts had warmed;And so the General of hot desireWas, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarmed.This brand she quenched … Continue reading Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Sonnets, Number 154 →

Thus, the entirety of Western civilization and Western history is predicated upon abuse, extraction and theft, which is a fact and reality that many of us have been in denial about or unaware of for quite some time. Nevertheless, by virtue of structural phenomena in the international system such as globalization and technology which are … Continue reading Liquid Gold →

Hence, the very basic nature of industrialization and modernization is such that both economic and social phenomena are entirely dependent on energy and oil. And if a war ever emanates again out of the Western world, the war will probably be over the issue of energy and oil. In turn, this blatant and outright dependence … Continue reading On Time →

Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,When I against myself with thee partake?Do I not think on thee, when I forgotAm of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?Who hateth thee that I do call my friend,On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon,Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not … Continue reading Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Sonnets, Number 149 →