The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Law of the Land & the Lie of the Free Lunch A corrupted economics provides us with a false model of human reality. Its incubation as a proposal for collective living rendered inevitable what has happened to our freedoms and our futures. John Waters Although its meaning has in modern times eclipsed  the Greek, Kantian and even Christian concepts of the phrase ‘the good life’, I had not until recently truly grasped the precise resonance of the ‘good’ part in the phrase as commonly used nowadays — the ‘Good Life’, as in ‘escaping the rat race’, seeking to create a worthwhile, honest and meaningful existence in proximity to nature, generating the means of one’s own existence,  et cetera , i.e. the meaning implied by the eponymous title of the 1970s BBC comedy series starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. But, now I think I get it, after reading Roy Sebag’s short (no more than 15,000 words) new book called  The Natural ...

  Deadliest Israeli Attack Against Syria In Years – A Failed Assassination Attempt Robert Inlakesh At least five Syrians were killed in a series of unprovoked Israeli airstrikes against Damascus, Syria, at a time when rescue teams are still digging victims of the recent Syria-Turkey earthquake out of the rubble. Despite this being such a major attack on a defenseless country, suffering the aftermath of a natural disaster, no major response came from the International Community. As the death toll from the horrifying earthquake that took place earlier this month rose to roughly  6,000  inside Syria alone, a series of Israeli airstrikes caused major destruction in a civilian neighborhood in the nation’s capital city, Damascus. The area struck is called Kafr Sousa, known as the area in which Hezbollah leader, Imad Moghniyeh, was assassinated in 2008 and is known for having an Iranian and Hezbollah presence in the area. Initially, the Syrian ministry of health’s death toll was...