The Age of Barbarians
March 15, 2024How can we forget the cult British series from the 60s, The Prisoner, where a terrifying bubble relentlessly pursued the hero played by the charismatic Patrick McGoohan? Our world finds itself in a similar situation because we are now all hostages to bubbles. From the bubble that isolates the rulers, to the bubble of the…
Corruption is a threat to national security
January 10, 2022While the events in Kazakhstan have taken a dramatic turn due to the dictatorial regime in place ordering troops to fire on and kill protestors, it would not go amiss to remind ourselves that it is indeed President Kazakh Nazarbayev who was the first of the post-Soviet era to weave a methodical web of…
The duty of financial intervention
July 16, 2020Might international finance be supporting and facilitating the work of dictators and autocrats? It is in fact not a lack of funding that could, for example, depose Jacob Zuma in South Africa, but rather his own party being put under intense pressure by a population that is wrought with wide-scale corruption orchestrated by Zuma…