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In 2018, Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) commanded just 4 percent of the vote. Today the extremist party emerges at the helm of a deeply conservative coalition …
Are you caught in it without even knowing?
Erudite and provocative blogger, Professor Ugo Bardi from the University of Florence, argues that the more we’re educated, the more vulnerable we are to propaganda.
While across the US the German election has been depicted in the mainstream media as a defeat for the ruling Conservative (Christian Democrat) Party, the reality of conservatism in Germany — and most of Europe — is that it bears little resemblence to what it means to Americans.
Anarchist thinkers, their ideas, and the extraordinary story of an often misunderstood strain of radical political thought.
Matthew Adams is an historian of British intellectual history, with a special interest in the development of anarchism as a political tradition.
Your chance to know Thomas Paine, the British born founding father of the American Revolution — and certainly the most colourful and passionate one.
He also had an important role in the French Revolution and was an unblinking critic of tyranny, superstition, religious oppression, special privilege and exploitation. He was also the 18th century’s most widely read writer.
Our growing list of interviews
The Population Bomb was a bombshell best-seller when it was unleashed in 1968. Author Paul Ehrlich, a renowned biologist, warned of the consequences of unchecked population growth and introduced the term Zero Population Growth (ZPG).
The population then was less than half of today’s figure, yet the issue is barely mentioned now in the media and public discourse. Despite our greater awareness of climate change, peak oil and other related hazards, why did population slip off the radar?
Some of our most celebrated heroes have had dark sides that history’s air-brushed out in order to exaggerate their virtues. Wayne Brittenden discusses heroes and our apparent need for them with Dr Binoy Kampmark of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Vladimir Lenin’s view on THE UKRAINE was vastly different from Vladimir Putin’s!
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change — and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they knew about it …
