The New Boy ‘The New Boy’, is the story of a young desert Aboriginal boy (Aswan Reid). The boy is interrupted by an Aboriginal policeman while apparently attempting to murder a white policeman out in the middle of the desert. This is perhaps an allegorical reference to the role of those aboriginals who were co-opted […]
Experimentos de pensamiento
Los filósofos han desarrollado experimentos de pensamiento para probar teorías y problemas filosóficos. Ética – juzgar lo correcto de lo incorrecto Probablemente el campo mayor de la filosofía en que los experimentos de pensamiento son populares es la ética – la cuestión del comportamiento correcto o incorrecto. Las dos perspectivas principales rivales en la ética […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative- Debt Trap Diplomacy?
A major criticism of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is that it designed as a debt trap for developing nations. The allegation is that, through the BRI, China makes loans for infrastructure projects which developing nations cannot afford to repay and that China then steps in to take over the asset. BRI has been […]
BRICS
The Labor Party’s draft national platform 2023 makes no mention of BRICS. The platform does not need to mention everything and too much detail is frowned upon nowadays. But the emergence and likely expansion of BRICS is an important development. The BRICS is an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. These countries […]
Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War tensions that led up to it
It’s a good time to revisit the Cuban Missile Crisis and some of the Cold War tensions that led up to it. There was no peace agreement after WWII that dealt with Germany and Austria. The Soviet Union, which had lost around 26 million people in the war, was shocked at Western proposals to re-arm […]
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