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Saving Palestinians from Hamas

Hamas is waging a modern cognitive war against Israel by blackmailing and murdering innocent Palestinians. Palestinians and Hamas must be separated. But a twist is afoot, and Russia could benefit from it. In WWII, Germany, Italy, and Japan completely surrendered. Their admission of utter defeat allowed them to rebuild these nations away from the toxic […]

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China’s Ukrainian Trap

Ukraine is Beijing’s biggest quagmire, and there is no easy way out. A Russian victory is unlikely, and a prolonged war would bleed China politically and economically—unless the Western political front collapses, mesmerized by its ghosts. But then it’d be a different story. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the EU’s top diplomat on […]

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German Universities: Religion Forgotten

On May 22, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinscahft (DFG), together with the Council of Sciences, announced which departments of excellence at German universities would receive federal funding for the seven-year period 2026-2033. Since then, the failure to renew funding for the Department of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster – active since 2007 with […]

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China’s Communist Party Subconscious

The subconscious of countries and institutions shapes their choices. How to speak to the CPC on a deeper, more soulful level and get it to see the broader, global reasons behind the market? Do states or institutions have a subconscious, a character? Some psychiatrists, like Italian Narciso Mostarda,  (see here) believe they do. If so, […]

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Is Putin a loser?

Some 140 million people in Russia need two things to “win” the war 1. support from their allies, and 2. the US stopping its backing of 30 million Ukrainians. It shows that Moscow is totally broke. Washington’s decision to halt some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine is causing concern among Kyiv and US allies […]

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Under What Volcano

When will an eruption occur in China? Is Beijing more similar to Vesuvius or Etna? A flow of questions and maybe some advice for Trump – you’ll get what you want without much effort. What’s brewing in China? Many ordinary people, who see the value of their homes sliding, their children unemployed, or who have […]

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Why is Intellectual History so Central in Contemporary China

Unlike any other nation, China is a civilization country, a country that identifies itself with a civilization and vice versa. Then, facing the issue of coping with the onslaught of a different civilization prompted some profound rethinking and soul searching about China’s intellectual history, both as a cultural and a national issue. Nothing similar exists […]