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Sickening Profits — The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth

The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit.

‘The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism’ Book Launch

When the restrictions under which we lived for two years were largely revoked in March 2022, the Great Reset of Western capitalism that was initiated in September 2019 was not revoked with them. On the contrary, the temporary removal of our rights and freedoms under lockdown is in the process

REVIEW: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in the “zone,” where the smell of rotting flesh from the mass graves functions as a persistent clue that things have gone

Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future

Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of

A Pandemic of Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissism and its associated abuse; control, manipulation, greed, exploitation of power, an audacious sense of entitlement to name a few traits, has been the bedrock of our societies for thousands of years. Different people will relate to it from different experiences of various aspects of life, but whether these manipulative,

French Minister Under Fire After Writing Erotic Novel While in Office

Confusion, amusement, and dismay as France’s minister for finance writes and publishes an erotic novel while still in office.

REVIEW: The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet published his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism in June 2022. The book brings attention to the need to understand our own psychology in this time of global crisis. It outlines the process of mass formation by which the masses find themselves to be hypnotized members of

Tolkien Anniversary: A Tribute to the Father of Fantasy

Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday. This is strangely significant as ‘131’ is the same age that Bilbo Baggins was when he was gifted passage aboard one of the last ships to Valinor, when he, Frodo and Gandalf sailed west to the

The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State

With the lifting of the thousands of regulations by which our lives were ruled for two long years there has been an understandable desire to believe that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ is over and we will return to something like an albeit new normal. But as new crises have sprung up

“The Rise of the New Normal Reich” banned in Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands!

So, the censorship of my latest book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol.

"We" a dystopian society

'the best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. LeGuin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness

The Woking of Tolkien: don’t let identity politics infect Middle Earth

It is 20 years since the premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

An Invitation to Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies

In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman, who did that with Leaves of Grass – writers often write introductions or prefaces. The purpose of such introductions is to give the prospective readers a sense of what to expect in the pages that follow,

5 Important Books The ‘Deep State’ Wants Buried – According To NYU Professor

Mark Crispin Miller has helped to create a publishing company with a 'Forbidden Bookshelf' where books are chosen for e-book publication based on having critical truths to tell but have in many ways been marginalized and suppressed by the Deep State. How would our world be different if we overcame