Latest articles: Politics
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- Comedy, or stand-up misanthropy?
- Life can be pretty tough at times, and humour can help to release the tension that builds up from the resulting stress. But do we have to denigrate and marginalise others to feed our humour?
- Iran is defined by its history
- Iran has a long history of 7000 years, but the last decades have defined its modern incarnation.
- Fake transphobia
- The latest target for othering by the misanthropists is transsexuals, a group that has been on the fringes of society for a very long time.
- Iran war – the reckoning
- The Iran war in 2026 is leading the world to confront the many delusions that have given the pretence of stability.
- A price on the US's head
- Trump's has been vocal about violating the sovereignty of several nations.
- Society and disability
- There is growing recognition that there are a lot of people with some sort of disability, and this is presenting a challenge to societies as to how to deal with them economically.
- The US is a ruthless exploiter
- Despite its pretence of democracy, the US has always used violence to enforce the demands of its white male elites.
- Is the US a failing country?
- The only answer is yes!
- Paper tiger forces
- We have been seeing that the armed forces of many nations seem to be strong, but are actually far less capable than what they appear.
- The right to bear arms
- The United States has a distinct aversion to limits on their citizens' ability to bear arms, yet on the international stage, they want some nations to be restricted from having nuclear weapons.