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Vance: “Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies.”

June 12, 2026June 12, 2026 sanjay perera

A borderless world where societies have no limits turn out to be ones in which boundaries are not only blurred but eradicated: between the reasonable and unreasonable, justice and injustice, spirituality and an ideology of violence and mayhem. Continue reading Vance: “Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies.”

A Journal of the Plague Year 2022: The not so invisible hand

February 10, 2022March 2, 2022 sanjay perera

When people act in a spirit of the highest good against draconian restrictions and enforced mandates that go against the Nuremberg Code a difference in the right direction can be made. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2022: The not so invisible hand

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A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: The metaverse-crypto entrapment

December 4, 2021March 2, 2022 sanjay perera

The world moves closer towards an Orwellian scenario of control just as we are reminded of Huxley’s prescience. The metaverse-crypto entanglement is the Oligarchy’s virtually perfect web of entrapment. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: The metaverse-crypto entrapment

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A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: Eduardo at the Café Bona Lista

May 22, 2021December 3, 2024 sanjay perera

Biological warfare is not new. But that doesn’t mean every time people are supposed to have been hit by the bug, they actually have been infected by that particular bug. Information can be manufactured to fit agendas. Evidence can be falsified. (Fiction) Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: Eduardo at the Café Bona Lista

A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: The Distasteful State of the Union

March 13, 2021March 2, 2022 sanjay perera

Many Americans seem to think there is a legitimate government in place but the US is a country that has undergone a coup. It is no longer a democratic country: all those who keep saying or thinking they are still in a democracy are living in denial. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: The Distasteful State of the Union

A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: The Oligarchy makes its final moves

January 17, 2021March 2, 2022 sanjay perera

They have twisted the erstwhile class struggle into ensuring their elite class remains above everyone else. There is nothing reminiscent of working-class attributes/behaviour among these Hollywood moguls, celebrities, politicians, and dictatorial managers of Big Tech. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: The Oligarchy makes its final moves

Censorship and oppression: the threat to democracy and open debate

December 24, 2020May 5, 2023 sanjay perera

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. addresses health freedom advocates gathered in Copenhagen to strategize ways to maintain human rights on a global basis. Continue reading Censorship and oppression: the threat to democracy and open debate

The four horsemen: how the global economy works

October 11, 2016February 7, 2017 sanjay perera

Four horsemen: a documentary Continue reading The four horsemen: how the global economy works

Taking notes 58: For the love of thinking: eleven theses

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 sanjay perera

by Jeff Noonan
The person who loves to think is critically minded. That person is not an undisciplined skeptic, but one who can detect contradictions between principle and practice, and between principles and the values to which they purportedly lead as means. Continue reading Taking notes 58: For the love of thinking: eleven theses

The curse of totalitarianism and the challenge of critical pedagogy

October 13, 2015 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux
The forces of free-market fundamentalism are on the march ushering in a terrifying horizon of what Hannah Arendt once called “dark times.” Continue reading The curse of totalitarianism and the challenge of critical pedagogy

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