Feudalism

Ten thousand desert rats, 10,000 fish, 14,000 sheep, 1,000 lambs, 1,000 fat oxen and many more creatures slaughtered, cooked and served: that is how Ashurnishabal of Mesopotamia (883-859 BCE) pampered almost 70,000 guests for 10 days. The Archbishop of Yorks …

On the 18th June this year, climate change demonstrators glued themselves to a main street in the centre of Brisbane, protesting what they regard as a climate emergency and to voice their objection to the recent approval of the Adani coal mine in Australias G…

THE Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew is a fascinating book on the rise of that country. The phenomenal rise impressed the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping so much that he visited Lee Kuan Yew and wanted to learn from him. Recalling this passage from the…

Anselm's "satisfaction theory of the atonement" is much maligned, often by those who, in my opinion, are dealing with a caricature of what Anselm actually advances in his eleventh-century work Cur Deus homo? His model often gets lumped in with penal substitut…

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Climate change alarmists and left-wing groups all seem to agree that the Earth is doomed and the year 2030 is the “tipping point” to stop climate change. But Think Progress additionally warned that if President Donald Trump is reelected in 2020, the Earth is …

Iftikhar Lund PTI PHOTO: TWITTER The government on Monday reversed its decision with immediate effect to appoint a controversial Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader as Sindh’s focal person on human rights. Iftikhar Lund is accused of sodomizing his emplo…

“Freedom is not free” is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial l in Washington, D.C. The Korean War started June 25, 1950. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands. Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as part of a U.N. poli…

She Who Watches pictograph, Columbia Gorge. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Diatribe. Mother Nature is in dire straits! Industrialization is poisoning our world, pulling the atmosphere out of balance and creating climate chaos. Its polluting our air and probably …

Whenever I read a column by the pustule called Thomas Friedman, I dont know whether to laugh or cry. To laugh at the hilarious attempts of an anthropoid carbuncle to sound vaguely human and Serious, or to cry at the fact that this abscess on the body politic …