((It's a pity we cannot read it online and discuss)) ((probably, the best political work of this author :)) Noam Chomsky: The term “secular priesthood” I am borrowing from the distinguished British philosopher and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin. He was referring to Communist intellectuals who defended the state religion and the crimes of power....

#Oïoub #Titiev > Accusé d’infractions - forgées de toutes pièces - à la législation sur les stupéfiants, il risque jusqu'à 10 ans d’emprisonnement s'il est déclaré coupable. Cet homme est poursuivi uniquement pour avoir exercé pacifiquement ses droits fondamentaux, il s’agit donc d’un prisonnier d’opinion. En conséquence, il doit être libéré immédiatement...

> Videos posted during past battles by Iraqi officers proudly committing war crimes against ISIS suspects are not hard to find on social media. When I have confronted Iraqi authorities, and even US-led coalition partners, with this material, they have frequently use the same refrain: But ISIS did so much worse, ISIS was truly evil. > While...

> This year, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation reported that California’s monarch butterfly numbers are at an all-time low, declining more than 85 percent from 2017. And this massive drop comes after years of decline; 97 percent of monarch butterflies have already disappeared since the 1980s. > Scientists say the monarchs are...

> Tribalism implies the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. Based on strong relations of proximity and kinship, members of a tribe tend to possess a strong feeling of identity. Objectively, for a customary tribal society to form there needs to be ongoing customary...

Dave Frohnmayer: What is the New Tribalism? It is the growth of a politics based upon narrow concerns, rooted in the exploitation of divisions of class, cash, gender, region, religion, ethnicity, morality and ideology ' a give-no-quarter and take-no-prisoners activism that demands satisfaction a nd accepts no compromise. It is a raw permissiveness...