Lee Daniel Hughes
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Showing posts with label
USA
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Neo-Imperialism and the nature of power: surveillance, Edward Snowden and democracy
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The author recently wrote an article documenting the rise of surveillance in modern society, and how this coincided with the rise of the int...
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Big Brother Is Watching You: Accepting Surveillance In Modern Society
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Almost exactly two years ago, the author wrote an article discussing the strange death of privacy in the 21st century . One of the key chang...
Sunday, July 20, 2014
The loss of MH17, Russia and the West's response: a parable of the times
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The events leading up to the downing of flight MH17 have the appearance of something from a Hollywood disaster movie. Collating the various ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
A real-life "Game Of Thrones": The Multi-polar world of the 21st century
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Events of the last five years have displayed the shift in the global centres of power. Fifteen years ago, the USA was the unchallenged ...
Monday, June 30, 2014
The nature of power: from Feudalism to 21st century Capitalism
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The word "feudalism" evokes images of slavery: medieval serfdom, peasants bound to serve a class of landed gentry. By definition, ...
Sunday, June 15, 2014
American foreign policy, the Ukraine Crisis and ISIS in Iraq: is nihilism the "new normal"?
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Nature abhors a vacuum. If you look through periods of history over the last two thousand years or so, every so often you see periods of t...
Monday, March 17, 2014
The Ukraine Crisis: Crimea's referendum, Putin's power-play, and Russian irridentism
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The Crimean "referendum" has been damned in the West as a sham, and its merger with Russia as nothing more than a military annexat...
Monday, March 10, 2014
The Ukraine Crisis: Understanding Europe's "proxy battleground"
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Although the "Ukraine Crisis" cannot be called a "war" in the sense of being as a "shooting war", in almost ev...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The Ukraine Crisis: Putin's psychology, and the failure of the West
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Since the Russian military annexation of the Crimea began in earnest last Friday, Russia has been slowly tightening its grip on the peninsul...
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