Month: April 2020
Coronavirus, lockdowns and the ease of indoctrination
On an otherwise ordinary school day in 1967, Ron Jones, a young social studies teacher in Palo Alto, California, put his 10th grade students through an [...]
10 reasons to end the lockdown
As most of the Western world is in strict lockdown to fight Coronavirus, those who are sceptical about the policy of lockdown find it hard to be heard. [...]
The cost of corporate welfare
A decade after the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) and bailouts are once again on the political agenda. Back then, banks all over the world were supplied with [...]
When war meant sacrifice and debt had to be paid back
‘It’s a war,’ said President Trump, when describing the fight against the Coronavirus, labelling himself a ‘war-time President’. Sure enough, with a [...]