By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein We don’t know the impact the Trump administration’s imposition of 10% tariffs on their exports will have on the inhabitants of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. We’ll likely never know, because the population of those territories consists solely of penguins, seals, turtles, and seabirds. It’s been more than ten years since a human last set foot ...
By Michael Roberts * Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants to ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein The show staged recently at the White House, featuring the US president and the leader of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi regime as the main characters in the plot, dominated news coverage for several days. The morbid curiosity gripped everyone; Zelensky’s filthy shirt, which he claims will transform him into a high-flying military strategist, and the strident whining of ...
By Ljubodrag Simonovic, Belgrade, Serbia * The theory of “the obsolescence of man” has become one of the most aggressive social and anthropological theories in the contemporary world, reckoning with man as a human and natural being. The established ideological sphere of capitalism produces an anthropological model that becomes the basis of man’s self-understanding. Instead of arriving at the idea ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein This article was published on February 27 in Soberanía Magazine No. 7 of the Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann Sovereignty House of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN). Managua. For reasons of space, it will be disclosed here in two parts. Translation by UWI. The pace of international events is overwhelming. Immersed in the dynamics of daily ...
By Ljubodrag Simonovic – Belgrade, Serbia * The work before the reader is an attempt to shape the self-awareness of modern man as a cosmic being endeavoring to create a humane world and thus a humane cosmos. The only genuine happening in the universe is the happening of man. Man, being a creative and historical being, represents a cosmic novum, ...
By Ljubodrag Simonović – Belgrade, Serbia In order to understand the nature of Tesla’s inventions and the myth surrounding him, one must consider the social conditions in the United States at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, during which Tesla lived and worked. This was a time of intense industrialization and the development of ...
By Ljubodrag Simonović, Belgrade, Serbia * „The Zeitgeist Movement“ is one of the most aggressive mondialistic movements in the contemporary world. It is allegedly based on a critique of capitalism and aspirations to make a new world. In fact, it is a scientological sect based on a quasi-religious myth about the omnipotence of science and technology, which is one of ...
By Ljubodrag Simonovic, Belgrade / Serbia * The notion of violence has a historical nature. In modern times, it is determined according to the basic human and civil rights, proclaimed in the French Revolution, which form the basis of modern humanism. Concretely, the nature of the ruling order conditions the nature of the prevailing violence. In liberal capitalism, the prevailing ...
By Ljubodrag Simonović, Serbia, Belgrade * Robotization is the final form of capitalist degeneration of humanity. Capitalism does not transform robots into humans, but humans into robots. Instead of human evolution having a historical character, it takes on a technocratic character. Capitalism destroys man’s personality and reduces him to a functional component of technical processes through which capitalism destroys the ...