
America is a bomb waiting to explode (part II)
Last week I compared the US – and by extension all economies based on the same model – to Semtex. My exploration of this analogy

America is a bomb waiting to explode
Not all explosives are the same. We all know you have to be careful with dynamite. Best to handle it gently and not smoke while

The US police: Locked and loaded
There is no question that police violence in the US is on the increase – and disproportionately so compared with other countries. As the UK’s

Russia and US in indirect military confrontation over Islamic State
Given the propaganda cover ISIS provided the US, ISIS has been increasingly regarded de facto as a US proxy. Now that Russia is bombing ISIS,

YouTube and the art of investigation
Media is changing. Or perhaps I should say: media continues to change. From Caxton and his printing press to HTML took around 500 years. Close

BBC reframes WWII ally’s troops as ‘rapists’
An increasing tendency toward barbed journalism has accompanied the breakdown in relations between London and Moscow since Putin’s refusal to cede Crimea under external pressure.

How the Federal Reserve System feeds shopping frenzy
We all shop. There are necessities we must buy in order to live. Yet how many of us have taken the time to understand exactly

Digital narcissism: art or irritation?
I fell in love when I was fifteen. I was walking down the corridor of our school with some of my friends when She walked

The Cold War and the end of certainty
Life was simple during the Cold War. Mutually Assured Destruction was horrific, but you knew where you were with it. Following the fall of the

Facebook and the search for meaning
Facebook shares data about us with corporations and marketers. We all know it. We let this fact glance off us, and tell ourselves that targeted