Ergebnis für "Hannibal" in Politik & Regierungen

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten wurde die Demokratie in einer beispiellosen Weise ausgehöhlt. Demokratie wurde durch die Illusion von Demokratie ersetzt, die freie öffentliche Debatte durch ein Meinungs- und Empörungsmanagement, das Leitideal des mündigen Bürgers durch das des politisch apathischen Konsumenten. Wahlen spielen mittlerweile für grundlegende politische Fragen praktisch keine Rolle mehr. Die wichtigen politischen Fragen werden von politisch-ökonomischen Gruppierungen entschieden, die weder demokratisch legitimiert noch demokratisch rechenschaftspflichtig sind.

According to the ancient sources, Hannibal was nine years old when his father led him to the temple at Carthage and dipped the young boy's hands in the blood of the sacrificial victim. Before those gods, Hannibal swore an oath of eternal hatred toward Rome. Few images in history have managed to...

A New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of...

With decades of combined experience researching and reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, and around the Middle East, Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell gained unrivaled access to Hamas.

Social justice matters because we—each of us—matter. Unless we learn to co-exist as equals, we will never live optimally. To denigrate any one of us is to demean all of us. Absent the wholesale embrace of social justice, we risk succumbing to human tendencies to stereotype, "otherize," and scapegoat. Those tendencies, left unchecked, lead to horrific ends. When we see ourselves in others, we understand that our shared humanity eclipses all else. Through our disagreements, we must never doubt the dignity and worth of the other.

In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind. Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews...

Two Hip-hop Lovers Reacting to the biggest stories from the Hip-hop/Sports Culture! We tackle Social, Culture, and Taboo Topics

A collection of hactivists, hobbyists, forum-users, and maverick leaders are leading a quiet but unstoppable revolution. They are sharing everything they know, and turning knowledge into action in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Driven by technology, and shaped by common values, going open has transformed the way we live. It's not so much a question of if our workplaces, schools, and colleges go open, but when.