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Something that feels so good just can't be wrong, can it? And the humanising aspect of Curtis' work shows quite plainly how right David Cameron was when, introducing the austerity program, he said: We are all in this together. How could I not see our leaders before for the wonderful human beings...

I posted that sequence from "Network" not to prove anything but because I thought that, unlike Curtis' fairytale bedtime stories on our benevolent capitalist masters, it gives a rather accurate illustration of the true character of the monstrous mindset of the corporate-financier oligarchs...

Put simply, it grants private persons the privilege of creating money out of thin air. All the central banks of the world are in private hands. The Fed, for example, is owned by the very shareholders who are also in possession of the financial institutions that are receiving the debt-based money...

Admittedly, I'm no expert on the history of the emergence of market-based capitalism from feudalist society. However, just as Curtis' work doesn't deal with the entire period of capitalist organisation of economy but rather with its technologised and globalised contemporary incarnation, I was...

First of all, I'm really amazed how the obvious criminal nature of the above examples of institutionalised economic scheming, which include instances of fraud, rigging, espionage and extortion, don't seem to immediately set off your alarm bells. It is self-evident that these acts of what can...

Oh, and to see what happens if a country chooses not to open their economy to the global market turn on your TV and watch the mayhem unfolding in Tripoli. Not surprisingly, one of the first actions of the CIA-backed Libyan National Transitional Council was to establish a central bank -...

The evidence is really so ample that one almost doesn't see the wood for the trees: complex credit instruments (Credit Default Swaps, derivatives, securities) in the service of a large-scale ponzi scheme within the framework of a totally deregulated financial market, infiltration of the Treasury...

I strongly disagree with the viewpoint that the implementation of the free market ideology was a well-intentioned, if ultimately unsuccessful endeavour based upon primarily idealistic motives. In suggesting so, Curtis becomes an apologist for the designers of a specific organisational model of...

That was a really informative and non-biased account of this classic case without the usual underlying tone of sensationalising mockery by which most mainstream media documentaries recounting such stories capitalise on the fascination and mystery of their subject matter while simultaneously...

Well-made and thoughtful documentary on the possibly inter-dimensional nature of the UFO phenomenon:

What's the difference between a hormone and a vitamin? You can't make a vita min.

I was calling for years for some righteous hacker group to take down the nascent Borg collective. I'm really hoping they'll make it.

This conjecture strikes me as completely unfounded. As Mr.Tea's little anecdote suggests even, or especially, those who are well-off and materially secure nevertheless steal out of sheer greed or criminal energy. Our current economic system, which really amounts to an institutionalised system of...

Watched 1990's Total Recall last night on the TV and was just thorougly impressed by the visionary dystopian vibe of the flick - full body scanners, screens on the tube, corpocracy, etc. - as well as the unpredicable intricacy of the plot and the timeless and still impressing SFX. Movies like...

More than 20 SEALs involved in the alleged "killing" of Osama Bin Laden die in helicopter crash. This story just gets better and better.

Granted that the work of these authors is probably not devoid of falsehoods, biases and speculation it strikes me as rather ignorant to outright dismiss it just because they are operating from a fringe where certain sensitive topics are not placed under a taboo. Your denunciation of these...

I've mostly stopped watching movies (what a waste of time) but to train my French I recently watched Jean Eustache's La Maman Et La Putain from 1973 about a Parisian slacker caught up in a love triangle and it was just great. Had the most non-clichéd characters and lots and lots of witty dialogue.

After skimming some of the posts - the most telling being one linking to an interview with an obnoxious journalist and sympathetic Thatcher biographer who dutifully churns out the usual anti-Iranian fearmongering and nonchalantly equates criticising Israel with Anti-Semitism - I think it's safe...

Fantastic essay. I do wonder, however, to what extent your appreciation of the Lovecraftian outlook on the uni-/multiverse presupposes a kind of suspension of disbelief? I mean, at one point in your essay you refer approvingly to Lovecraft's intergalactic mytho-materialism as a kind of...