War in Europe eclipses and overshadows all other considerations and priorities at the moment, for perhaps two major reasons. One is that Donald Trump got elected to end the war. And two, the dynamics and the nature of the war in Europe are what necessitate the focus that the war is now getting, in the … Continue reading The Price of Peace
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Patrimonial States
It follows that civil disobedience and dissent arise out of very peculiar and specific circumstances and situations, namely, the collapse or the failure of state institutions or state organs. Thus, the past shapes the present, in the sense that certain actions or events led to the situation whereby state institutions or state organs collapsed and … Continue reading Patrimonial States
An Architecture of Pleasure
As everyone is well aware, the norm and the rule in terms of what we get out of leaders and out of government in general is a combination of fear-mongering and lies. But of course, the fear-mongering and the lies, once analyzed and deconstructed, amount to a concealment and shrouding of sex and the masturbatory … Continue reading An Architecture of Pleasure
Defining Strategic Rationality
I was told by a relative who served in the Afghan special forces before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 that the deep state will not relent until one relinquishes an open and independent mind for the ‘Cold War intellectualism’ or ‘NATO intellectualism’ which many intellectuals and scholars have critiqued and deconstructed. But … Continue reading Defining Strategic Rationality
The Decline of Liberalism
Moreover, we assume that the ascendance of Donald Trump indicated the start of the decline of liberalism in America. Yet, we find that liberalism was in decline in America and in other parts of the Western world for a number of decades, only to be covered up by the media and political parties as well … Continue reading The Decline of Liberalism
Adam A. Azim 