Al-Atareb is seen as an important conquest to many because it is in a highly strategic area, both from the logistic and economic point of view, because here one finds the main route of connection between Aleppo and the Bab Al Hawa pass (the only official border crossing with Turkey). The...
Socialism is an economic system where the means of production are owned by the society as a whole, meaning the value made by workers belongs to everyone in that society, rather than a group of private owners and investors. It is an economic philosophy based on the principles of shared owners...
What Is Ramadan? Muslim men perform a tarawih prayer on the first night of Ramadan at Aram Bagh Mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, March 22, 2023. Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Because Islam uses a lunar calendar, Ramadan begins...
No one put in more eloquently than Francis Fukuyama in his famous 1989 essay in The National Interest:“The triumph of the West, of the Western idea, is evident first of all in the total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism.” Fukuyama repeated this claim after th...
New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly analyzed in terms of their social impact or adequately regulated by societies. One of the biggest potentially disruptive technologies for the future is the metaverse, or the new Internet
America and Russia both will kill the future of Ukraine in their own ways. brings will of corruption and mass manipulation? But really, it's a more general thing: everything is now biased.Everything. As long as the political systems allows for oligarchy, everything will be corrupted by the...
Does the former Soviet space have any historico-regional significance, or is it really no more than an area occupied by an imperial aspirant, taking advantage of the weakness of European and Asian powers following the First World War? The author argues that the term “Eurasia” is merely a ...
is not simply referential (i.e., describing states of events), but rather what the philosopher of language J. L. Austin influentially termed: performative. The concept of genocide is performative in the sense that rather than describing the world as it is, it is meantto dosomething in the...
If the likelihood of being killed by a terrorist is too high for you, I don’t know what you can do. Certainly you can’t get in a car to go anywhere, but household accidents kill more people than terrorists. You could try catatonia, but do you know how many people die in hospitals...
Some of this is excellent e.g. how to influence others. We really do need to become 'evangelists' for the cause and skillful communicators. But the many various points mentioned lack a clear end-goal by which folks can judge if these many points will actually help (or hinder) to achieve...