Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher,born in Berlin in 1892. He was wide-ranging in his interests; his work waltzed from translations of verses by the French poet Charles Baudelaire to the essayThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (In a nutshell? Originals good;...
But in the past capitalism was even less fair than it is today, and those who wielded that wealth also wasted it. You see rent-seeking from workers or slaves, opulence for personal benefit, and wars of dominance to take from other groups in a zero-sum transaction. The evolution of ...
the US State Department had urged Israel not to pass the legislation, saying the agency plays “an irreplaceable role right now in Gaza.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken has previously warned Israel that passing the legislation could “have implications under US l...