Belgium's far-right breaking through with questionable and unprogressive visions: "One, entitled Realities, includes a cartoon strip called "the adventures of an honourable taxpayer". The main character, a white Belgian dressed in tweeds, has his car vandalised by immigrants, is fired because of immigrant job quotas, is beaten up by masked foreigners and is then let down by a powerless police force. One image shows the "hero" having his pocket picked on the metro by an Arab immigrant."

A view from the Middle East. Interesting critique of American 'democracy'.
"This substitution of science for religion accounts for some of the salient traits of American ideology. It explains why philosophy is so unimportant, because it has been reduced to the most impoverished empiricism. It also accounts for the frantic effort to reduce the human and social sciences to "pure" (that is, "hard") sciences: "pure" economics thus takes the place of political economy, and the science of "genes" replaces anthropology and sociology. This last unfortunate aberration provides another point of close contact between contemporary American ideology and Nazi ideology, which has doubtless been facilitated by the profound racism that runs through all American history. Another aberration stemming from this peculiar vision of science is a weakness for cosmological speculation (of which the "Big Bang" theory is the most well- known example)."

The preventive war policy and Iraq packed into a categorical imperative vs. utilitarianism scenario. Kant vs. Mill in Iraq. If only this were what it is... 'Fasc' remains the only suitable 'ism'.

MK-NAOMI - I just stumbled across a load of information postulating the possibility of HIV being man-made, some of it invariably extending into the world of conspiracies and illuminati. Here also a history of AIDS development.