Martin Amis was a brilliant stylist with a scabrous wit. But, ye gods, save us from the bien-pensant moralising about the Holocaust, nuclear weapons, the environment, Brexit and Trump, says Dr James Alexander.
The post Martin Amis: Brilliant Stylist, Dull Moralist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Remember our public intellectuals from times past, who fearlessly challenged the social mores and public zeitgeist of their times?
Henry David Thoreau comes to mind, who famously opposed the Mexican-American War with a night in jail, as does Voltaire’s sharp critique of Enlightenment optimism. Well, now these public minds are far and few between.
By Jan Oberg
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. More here.
By John Wight | Sputnik | August 19, 2016 People living in the West don’t need their governments to tell them who their enemy is. Not when they have an obliging intelligentsia to do it for them. A quick browse of the non-fiction shelves in your local UK high street bookshop offers prospective customers a banquet of anti-Russian […]
Cold War 2.0, part I
In last month’s Anti-Empire Report I brought you the latest adventure of US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki trying to defend the indefensible. She said then: “As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means,” which prompted me to inform my readers: “If you know how to contact Ms. Psaki, tell her to have a look at my list of more than 50 governments the United States has attempted to overthrow since the end of the Second World War.”
All of this clarifies the reality that the ‘New Atheists’ are lackluster intellectuals motivated purely by greed and opportunism. As ‘guardians of Zion,’ we can assuredly expect these dedicated ‘free thinkers’ to continue to deny the very real threat of Jewish extremism and continue to inflate the counterfeit menace posed by Islamic theocrats.
Beware the neocon ‘New Atheists.’
By Brandon Martinez
Episode URL: http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/entry/2014-11-21T06_02_35-08_00 To Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard’s Brain Model Organizing History): https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/ To Donate or Subscribe to the Tragedy and Hope online learning community: https://www.tragedyandhope.com/subscribe/ To Subscribe to Peace Revolution on iTunes:
