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“ A remarkably candid Pentagon analysis has recently argued that the «  War on terror »-as the president named the conflict he has promoted since9/11-was a cover : America, it says, is not responding to the threat of a rival power, as it did in the Cold War. It is” seeking to convert a broad movement within Islamic civilization to accept the value structure of Western Modernity”. This Judgement, by the Pentagon’s own analysts, put its finger on what some scholars have designated a clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations. [1] Storm from The East the struggle between the Arab world and the Chrisitan…

A few years ago, my relationship to darkness had turned a bit fanatical. I was living on the Canadian Prairies in Regina, Saskatchewan, and I’d found my way into a regimen of extreme early rising. Waking each day sometime after midnight but well before the suggestion of dawn, I would drape myself in a hooded fleece cape, light a votive as thick as my forearm, and carry it like a torch as I puttered importantly around the kitchen, arriving at my desk to scribble longhand as if engaged in some form of monastic cosplay. My obsession with the smallest hours of…

Adocumentary about how media revealed the corruption plaguing Romania’s healthcare system and a Bosnian woman’s story about the Srebrenica genocide have been shortlisted for best international feature film at the 2021 Oscars. Two stories from the Balkans, told by a Romanian-born man and a Bosnian woman have been put on a shortlist of 15 films in the Best International Feature category for the upcoming Oscars, the US Academy Awards said in a statement on Tuesday evening. ‘Collective’, a documentary by German-Romanian director Alexander Nanau, was also put on the shortlist in the Best Feature Documentary category. It traces a journalistic exposé unravelling…

There’s a sickness that comes with the certainty of those who view the world in so black and white, so good and bad, so us versus them terms, that killing is often a morally defensible act. More so, such killing often goes beyond just simple self defense, to a level of retributive necessity, a preventive act that makes the act of killing practically an act of altruism. “If I hadn’t killed the bad guy, the bad guy would have killed other people” so the reasoning goes. The myth of redemptive violence, is clearly espoused and expressed in our explanations of American…