Tag: History — 8 posts
Democracy, Backsliding and the Need for a Weekly Radar
In March 2026, the V‑Dem Institute published its tenth global Democracy Report: Unraveling the Democratic Era?
For the “ average global citizen ”, they conclude, the level of democracy is now back to where it stood in 1978. The gains of the so‑called “ third wave of democratisation ”, which began with Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in 1974, have been “ almost entirely eradicated ”.
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ACTORS THE EU WILL NOT NAME
A FIMI-Methodology Assessment of US, Israeli and Aligned Network Interference in European Democracy
“those who want to destroy the Union are: Russia, American MAGA, and the European right wing led by Orbán. “1
(Donald Tusk)
Kaja Kallas is right that today’s wars are fought with lies and algorithms.
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In this article I want to break down some key concepts about wealth and income distribution utilising concepts from thermodynamics and entropy to show how gamed current economies and societies are and, more importantly, how we can undertake long term policy changes to fix it.
The G20 recently released the Global Inequality Report,1commissioned by the G20 South Africa Presidency in November 2025 and led by Joseph E. Stiglitz. It characterises global inequality as an “emergency” and a “policy choice,” asserting that the negative trends can be reversed. The report finds that 83% of countries globally exhibit high income inequality encompassing 90% of the world’s population. This crisis is primarily driven by wealth concentration, which is far higher than income inequality.
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**" Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite **
….**this is killing me “**1
In Part 2 we looked at the many risks arising from Elon Musk’s ownership of the social media platform X, his development of Grok and Grokipedia and his promotion of disinformation and hate.
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In Part 1 we looked at how Musk takes all of the wrong lessons from the literary greats he apparently admires:
In this Part 2, we will examine the integrity of Musk’s views on free speech, and the engines of hate speech and disinformation he is developing.
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Dedicated toHossam Shabbat and all the Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza.
“...empires rise and fall at a wave of the pointer, the blood is blotted out - And only one small boy, who was not paying the least attention, will ask between two victorious wars: and did it hurt in those days too?”
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