Friday, November 29, 2024

The Suffering Beyond Our Horizon

It must be said bluntly – a genocide has been going on in Palestine. Already destitute lives are destroyed by bombs. Innocent children are getting their short lives brutally ended, while wailing women are blown to pieces with tears in their eyes. There is currently no peace and no hope for the Palestinian people.

Yet, in the West we live on as if this reality didn’t exist. We were taught “Never again”, but “Never again is now”.

Monday, November 18, 2024

Real Democracy Can Only Be Freedom

With the advent of representative democracy over a century ago in most of the West, the popular belief was that the “rule of the few” would be relegated to the dustbin of History. This never happened of course, as has become clearer to the “many” over the decades. Indeed, the ruling Western oligarchy has become more visible than before, too brazen in its attempts to ram through its globalist agenda on the world.

The illusion of representative democracy has also been fading as social and economic conditions in the West worsen.