Category: Genocide
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The Distraction Machine and the Coming Silence
BY CHRISTIAN SARKAR We are living inside a distraction machine. Every day it delivers a fresh surge of outrage: Trump’s thuggery, ICE shootings, the Epstein files, the war in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. These are not fabricated crises. They involve real violence, real victims, real injustice. They demand moral attention.And yet—taken together, and presented the…
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THUGPOWER: The Architecture of Misleadership
BY CHRISTIAN SARKAR and PHILIP KOTLER THUGPOWER names the pattern of behavior we see across the world today: when leadership stops protecting the Common Good and starts behaving like a protection racket. In the diagram, it’s drawn as a cycle because it isn’t one isolated tactic-it’s an architecture. Each move makes the next move easier,…
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Moral Superiority, Political Ambiguity, and the Belgian Compromise On Gaza
BY JEF TEUGELS When Prime Minister Bart De Wever said, “Don’t act as if your position is morally superior to someone else’s,” it sounded like a plea for humility. [Bart De Wever, Goeiemorgen morgen!, Radio 2, August 30, 2025.] But humility in politics is never neutral. In this case, it is an alibi — a…