Poverty and political injustice, he continued, may contribute to extremism, but many of the perpetrators of Islamist terrorism in the United Kingdom had been well educated and middle class

fan fears of a nation facing a civilizational threat by invading non-Europeans.

With the French presidential elections approach, anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a focus of competition between candidates and all the talk has been directed to more restraints of Muslims in France, where candidates enjoy giving Islamophobic speeches to fulfill the anti-Islamic desires of their French people.

Many qualified young French of North African origin are settled in Gulf countries, but the popular alternative destination for them has become Turkey.

Communism has been one of the most influential economic theories of all times;

Communism is a political ideology and type of government in which the state owns the major resources in a society, including property, means of production, education, agriculture and transportation.

The Father of Communism, Karl Marx, a German philosopher and economist, proposed this new ideology in his Communist Manifesto, which he wrote with Friedrich Engels in 1848.

유족들을 분산시켜 교류와 대화를 막는 것은 과거 유럽 식민제국들의 이른바 분할통치 수법

“희망이 없다고 가정하면, 희망이 없다고 확신하게 된다. 자유에 대한 본능이 있다고 가정하고, 무언가 바꿀 수 있는 기회가 있다고 가정하면, 좀 더 나은 세상을 만들기 위해 공헌할 가능성이 있다.” -노암 촘스키-

Life without love is a pretty empty affair.

As Chomsky notes below, the Russia-Ukraine conflict is a solvable problem, but one wonders if the U.S. will remain dedicated to a “zombie policy” that could produce potentially awful consequences in the event of a diplomatic failure

In fact, Ukraine became a battleground in 2014 when Putin decided to annex Crimea, which he called the “spiritual source” of the Russian state, and, since then, tensions between the two countries have been very hard to diffuse.

Lieven argues realistically that Ukraine is “the most dangerous [immediate] problem in the world,” and “also in principle the most easily solved.”

There is also a real danger that this model will be replicated along the border with Turkey and elsewhere in Europe. It is time to reverse this harmful trend, and instead build functioning Greek and EU asylum systems that recognise the humanity of all who are forced to flee.

you can ride a bicycle from Paris to Moscow.

geopolitics. Although the term is often used loosely to mean “international relations”, it refers more precisely to the view that geography – mountains, land bridges, water tables – governs world affairs.

In its cynical view of human motives, geopolitics resembles Marxism, just with topography replacing class struggle as the engine of history.