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The Hydrogen-Based Economy: Is it Enough to Paint Something Blue to Make it Green?

January 16, 2021

The Hydrogen-Based Economy: Is it Enough to Paint Something Blue to Make it Green? A hopeful image for a hopeful article by Bertrand Piccard. “Blue Hydrogen” seems to be popular, nowadays. But is it enough to paint something blue to make it green? It turns out that “green” hydrogen, assuming it exists, is too expensive for […]

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The Great Reset: The Western Path to Dekulakization

January 13, 2021

The Great Reset: The Western Path to Dekulakization One of the Soviet propaganda posters promoting the collectivization of agriculture in the 1930s. On the lower right, you can see a small man opposing the line of the marching peasants, He is recognizable as a “Kulak,” one of the local independent farmers who were dispossessed […]

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The Deification of Emperor Trump: Following Caligula’s Path

January 9, 2021

The Deification of Emperor Trump: Following Caligula’s Path Jake Angeli, high priest of the growing cult of Emperor Donald Trump, dressed as the horned God Cernunnos. The deification of Emperor Trump in Washington, yesterday, didn’t go so well, but we are moving along a path that the Romans already followed during the decline of their […]

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The Hydrogen Hoax: Confessions of a Former Hydrogenist

December 25, 2020

The Hydrogen Hoax: Confessions of a Former Hydrogenist The “hydrogen economy” is like a zombie: no matter how many times it is slain, it keeps coming at you. Like a Hollywood zombie movie, hydrogen seems to exert a tremendous fascination because it is being sold to people as a way to keep doing everything we […]

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The Fall of the Citadels of Science: the Pandemic and the End of Universities

December 16, 2020

The Fall of the Citadels of Science: the Pandemic and the End of Universities Far from being ivory towers, nowadays universities look more and more like battered citadels besieged by armies of Orcs. The Covid-19 pandemic may have given the final blow to a structure that was falling anyway. (image credit “crossbow and catapults“) A […]

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The Unbearable Lightness of Blogging: How to Save Your Posts from Catastrophe.

December 14, 2020

The Unbearable Lightness of Blogging: How to Save Your Posts from Catastrophe. Sumerian clay tablet with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih by the priestess Enheduanna, Writing in cuneiform characters on clay tablets is a little laborious, but it ensures that your text is not vulnerable to accidental erasure: these tablets have survived for more than 5000 […]

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The Drones are Coming! The Drones are Coming! The Twilight of the Global Empire?

December 8, 2020

The Drones are Coming! The Drones are Coming! The Twilight of the Global Empire? This clip looks like a videogame, but it is not (caution, disturbing images). You are seeing Azeri drones destroying Armenian military units during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Is this the harbinger of the collapse of the Global Empire? Many things have been […]

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War and Censorship — Difficult Times in Italy

December 5, 2020

War and Censorship — Difficult Times in Italy A post by Miguel Martinez, originally published in Italian on his blog on 23/11/2020. Italy was the first European country to be struck by the COVID-19 pandemic and the first to implement a national lockdown. At that time, Italians would display the flag on their balconies and sing aloud in […]

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The pandemic as the end of consumerism. Everything that’s happening is happening because it had to happen

November 30, 2020

The pandemic as the end of consumerism. Everything that’s happening is happening because it had to happen These Medieval ladies look like fashion models. With their splendid dresses in silk brocade, they are displaying their wealth in an age, the 14th century, in which Europe was enjoying a period of economic growth and prosperity. They […]

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Time for a new Witch Hunt? The pandemic could change more things than you would have expected.

November 27, 2020

Time for a new Witch Hunt? The pandemic could change more things than you would have expected. A detail of Benvenuto Cellini’s “Perseus and Medusa,” a statuary group created in 1554 and presently in Florence, Italy. It is considered a work of art, but it is also remarkable for the detailed depiction of an extremely […]

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The Mind of the Evil Ruler: What Goes on inside the Heads of the People who Govern the World?

November 2, 2020

The Mind of the Evil Ruler: What Goes on inside the Heads of the People who Govern the World? The damage that bad rulers can do to people and things is gigantic, especially considering that they command military apparatuses of immense power. But what goes on in their minds, exactly? Are some of them truly […]

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Can we Predict Collapses Before they Happen? What we Learned from the Pandemic

October 15, 2020

Can we Predict Collapses Before they Happen? What we Learned from the Pandemic My 2019 book “Before the Collapse.” In it, I examined several scenarios of the future of humankind. Was I able to predict the current pandemic? Of course not in the details, but I think that I did note an important facet […]

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Do we Still have a Chance? The Challenge of Emergency Measures for the Survival of Humankind

October 1, 2020

Do we Still have a Chance? The Challenge of Emergency Measures for the Survival of Humankind The epidemic of COVID-19 seems to have snuffed out all other subjects of debate. But there remain problems that we could define as a little more worrisome than the COVID pandemic, for instance, the possibility of the extinction […]

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Politics in the Age of the Coronavirus. What can we learn from the Italian Elections?

September 23, 2020

Politics in the Age of the Coronavirus. What can we learn from the Italian Elections? Sep 20, 2020. The president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, votes at the Italian regional elections. In these elections, the first in the age of the COVID, the victory went to the Left largely by means of over a better strategy […]

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Famines as Military Weapons: Is Europe in Danger?

September 15, 2020

Famines as Military Weapons: Is Europe in Danger? A Dutch girl photographed at the time of the “hongerwinter”, the famine that hit The Netherlands in 1945, during WW2. In the West, we tend to think of famines as events of the remote past that will never return, a view typified by Steven Pinker in his […]

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