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Why Mainstream Critics Turned Against Joker
Kit Knightly
The Oscars are happening as we speak, and I’m a little embarassed to say I want Joker to win....
REVIEW: Global Justice and Finance
Philip Roddis Paleontologists tell us homo sapiens sapiens has walked the earth for 140,000 years, 130,000 of them as...
Literature and Politics in a Dystopian Age
Frank Lee Unquestionably, the world seems to be moving away from democratic forms of rule and morphing into authoritarian/totalitarian...
Hovering in Cyberspace
Edward Curtin We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world...
Rest in Peace, Terry Jones
Kit Knightly
I never met Terry Jones, but I would rather have liked to. The complexities of life brushed me close...
An end to capitalism. An end to cash!
Review by Tony Sutton The UK working class lost much sympathy after its stunning rejection of Jeremy Corbyn’s socialist...
The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Edward Curtin Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices...
Songs of Longing for New Year’s Day
Edward Curtin Like many people, when the New Year rolls around, I think of turning over a new leaf....
A Star Is Always Born
Edward Curtin It is no different now. The yearning still gnaws. The night dark, utterly silent, Sky stretched endlessly...
REVIEW: Creative Destruction – How to start an economic renaissance
Frank Lee CYCLES OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION A recession is defined in economics as two or more quarters of negative...
Official Secrets, Lies and the Five Eyes
David Macilwain Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election?...
The Dirty War on the NHS
Philip Roddis I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of...
Film review: Sorry We Missed You
Philip Roddis “I never thought it would be this hard”, says Rickie Turner to Abby his wife, holding her...
What’s Joker’s Joke?
Edward Curtin Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?” Rodriguez, “Cause”...
American Conspiracies & Cover-ups
Douglas Cirignano In today’s world, the phrase “conspiracy theory” is pejorative and has a negative connotation. To many people,...
Class Contempt: A Washington Post Reporter’s Prison Diary
Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran...
REVIEW: Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Hope Kesselring Anybody who’s expecting shocking revelations from Edward Snowden’s new book, Permanent Record, is going to be disappointed....
The Whitewashing of the Nazis
Christopher C. Black I was going to write about Iraq and the American control of that tragic nation that...
REVIEW: Blinded by the Light
Philip Roddis Bottom line: feel-good movie with a dash of musical, transcending its gritty context of racist, recessionist Britain...
The Four Horsemen Cometh
Frank Lee “Aftermath” is the latest addition to three previous publications by Rickards, Currency Wars (2011), The Death of...
