Cinema: from West to East, bridges and oceans
As the title suggests, this is an article of movie suggestions in line with others in PACTA, which you can see here and here. This time, the theme is: from West to East, what connects…
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Between Security and Freedom- Hong Kong’s National Security Law
‘’Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” – In The Trial, Franz Kafta wrote about a bureaucratic trial whose obscure contours are so incomprehensible and ambiguous,…
Japan Soft Power House
We tend to look to the Western World for references to our way of behavior, not only regarding political organization, but also in cultural terms. It is not strange to anyone that perhaps the United…
Opium in Afghanistan: causes, effects and its relation with American interventionism
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and, after 10 years of resistance from Mujahedin rebels, backed by the US, was defeated. The CIA’s actions against the Soviet occupation helped turn borders into a heroin…
5G’s Geopolitical Race: China, USA, Brazil – a perspective.
This article aims to set a practical assessment of the geopolitical implications of the 5G System of Telecommunications’ development in the current International Politics’ dynamic, that is the foundation of our International System. It englobes…
Manufacturing Consent (Part II): The Media’s Servitude
“If, however, the powerful are able to fix the premises of discourse, to decide what the general populace is allowed to see, hear and think about, and to ‘manage’ public opinion by regular propaganda campaigns,…
The World in December 21 to 27
Brexit: Habemus Acordum! This Thursday the United Kingdom and the European Union reached a post-Brexit trade agreement, after months of negotiations. Prime Minister Boris Johnson considered it a “good deal” for the whole of Europe,…
Christmas Geopolitics
Regardless of the International Relations Theory we use to analyse the International System, even if we consider international relations to be a zero-sum game, or a cooperative game, it is now indisputable that the search…
Manufacturing Consent in the 21st Century: the MSM and US Foreign Policy
“Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog”. (Wag the Dog) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Edward…
The World from December 14 to 20
Possible post-Brexit deal According to the European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michael Barnier, a post-Brexit free trade agreement with the United Kingdom may be close and could be reached as early as Sunday. The European…