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Neue Slowenische Kunst in Lyon - Perspektive 2/2 (English version)

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An interview with Alexei Monroe (*) : "Alexei Monroe : Laibach and NSK 's aim is to make people "aware that totalitarianism isn’t a discrete historical phenomenon which went on from let’s say 1933 to 1989 and then it’s over so let’s have a nice triumph of liberal democracy " The Captain Spaulding's Bizarre Freaky Circus : Hello Alexei Monroe, you are well known in France for your work with Laibach and the NSK. Could you tell us how this first meeting in Lyon came about? How did you plan the event ? Alexei Monroe : I’m not the actual organiser. Bertrand Thibert is the organiser and he invited me. This is a follow-up to the First Congress of NSK Citizens in Berlin which took place last October. Bertrand was one of the delegates to the Congress and he was one of the main activists. The Congress was a kind of experiment to bring citizens together for the first time to see what would happen, if they could reach common points of agreement and what they would like the
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Buddhist Anarchism by Gary Snyder

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Buddhism holds that the universe and all creatures in it are intrinsically in a state of complete wisdom, love and compassion; acting in natural response and mutual interdependence. The personal realization of this from-the-beginning state cannot be had for and by one-“self” — because it is not fully realized unless one has given the self up; and away. In the Buddhist view, that which obstructs the effortless manifestation of this is Ignorance, which projects into fear and needless craving. Historically, Buddhist philosophers have failed to analyze out the degree to which ignorance and suffering are caused or encouraged by social factors, considering fear-and-desire to be given facts of the human condition. Consequently the major concern of Buddhist philosophy is epistemology and “psychology” with no attention paid to historical or sociological problems. Although Mahayana Buddhism has a grand vision of universal salvation, the actual achievement of Buddhism has been the development of
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Who was Henry Kissinger?

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Henry Kissinger died at his home in Kent, Connecticut, on November 29, 2023, at the age of 100.  In 1973 he received the Nobel Peace Prize. But the following documentary reveals that the former U.S. Secretary of State has been steering world politics for decades in association with other global strategists and is mastermind of a global shadow government. Who was Henry Kissinger?  What is and was his significance for the world and the world’s politics? Henry Kissinger, originally Heinz Alfred Kissinger, was born in Fürth, Germany on May 27, 1923. His was one of many Jewish families which fled persecution in Germany to arrive in America in 1938. According to the official data, one of the outstanding stages in his life was that he was Secretary of State under U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1973 to 1977. In 1973, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for the Vietnam War peace treaty. In 1980, he supported Ronald Reagan’s presidential candidacy and, according to Wikipedia, later reportedly r
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