Nor is it merely a matter of preference and taste. It is a moral and ethical question as well: Does one conscientiously side with a foreign occupier and oppressor? Or does one conscientiously side with those who resist and struggle against foreign occupation and oppression? Also, what are the appearances and optics of foreign occupation … Continue reading Note to “Guerrilla Warfare”
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Forepleasure
Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
An Orientalist Dream
As we said before, beneath the surface, we have “invisible string pullers” or an “invisible government” running everything on the world scene. But on the surface, it is about the “Great Game” between London and Moscow. And at the heart of the “Great Game” is Afghanistan and control over it. Both London and Moscow seek … Continue reading An Orientalist Dream
On Anglo-Saxonism
Anglo-Saxons also realized that the only way by which Anglo-Saxonism could survive is if it expanded and spread throughout the world. The expansion and spread of Anglo-Saxonism within the structural context of globalization and technology came to be known as “imperialism.” To borrow from one scholar: “Politically, the process of globalization was synonymous with what … Continue reading On Anglo-Saxonism
Adam A. Azim 