Feudalism

Central European governments have been systematically abusing the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to enrich family members and political allies, a new investigation claims. The 'New York Times' survey of subsidies in nine European countries found milli…

Today, their children toil for new overlords, a group of oligarchs and political patrons who have annexed the land through opaque deals with the Hungarian government. They have created a modern twist on a feudal system, giving jobs and aid to the compliant an…

Meiji Setsu

As harsh austerity and xenophobic nationalist fester in Europe, former Greek finance minister and DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis discusses his antidote to the crisis with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White in the following interview first published at the G…

As Mario Draghi makes way for Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank, power passes from one famed crisis manager to another. Lauded by the Financial Times in 2012 as person of the year and the man who saved the eurozone, Draghi has recent…

feu·dal·ism /fyoodlizm/ The dominant social system from medieval Europe, in which peasants (serfs) were obliged to serve their lords and give them homage and labor... Screw feudalism. Vote McMurray.

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Conservatism in a broad sense, as a social attitude, has always existed. It expresses the instinctive human fear of sudden change, and tendency to habitual action. Cecil, for instance, contrasts “modern Conservatism” with the “natural conservatism” from w…

News about monks' sexual misconduct has become so frequent that it no longer shocks. But the latest scandal involving a rapist, paedophile monk makes my blood boil. It involves an abbot in Kanchanaburi who detained a 13-year-old novice at his temple residenc…