Category: Articles

The ‘Alt Right’ in the United States Written by Alfonso Elizondo The Alt-Right began as an obscure subculture on the Internet. From 2015 onwards it started to become part of national politics in the US. At first it was a small group with youthful energy, spouting very confused sexist rhetoric and openly challenging the establishment.…

Bannon: US Government with a Difference Written by Alfonso Elizondo   On January 28 this year, presidential advisor for strategic affairs, Steve Bannon, became the head of the National Security Council which functions as a council of ministers for crisis management, foreign policy and national security. This came at the same time as the removal…

Collapse of Capitalism Written by Alfonso Elizondo   Since the end of World War II when the US became the new global model of the State, the complexity of its government has grown very rapidly. In a very short time, a new type of state was formed involving the sponsors and creators of the two…

Without Hypocrisy there’s No Politics Written by Alfonso Elizondo Groucho Marx said that ‘politics is the art of looking for problems, finding them everywhere, misdiagnosing them and applying the wrong remedies’. The black humor of this great American comedian of the 1930s gives us a very accurate description of what happens when there is a…

Deglobalization? Written by Alfonso Elizondo    From a historical perspective, globalization has not had a linear evolution. Over several decades of the rapid growth of this social phenomenon, the world has obtained great benefits in many respects, such as education, health, demographics and political, economic and social life. But the gap between the poor and…

The Fall of Two Empires: Rome and the USA  Written by Alfonso Elizondo According to traditional versions of history there are many coincidences between the fall of Rome and that of the United States, the beginning of which is scarcely being recognized by some world powers. Rome reached its zenith in 107 A.D. when Trajan…

The New 21st Century Obscurantism Written by Alfonso Elizondo The great intellectual advances of Greece did not continue when Rome replaced it as the major power in the Mediterranean. The Romans, thanks to their political and social organization managed to build a vast empire, but had no greater interest in mathematics than was strictly necessary…

Collapse of the Global Economy (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo According to John Wagoner, financial analyst for USA Today, the current increase in food prices is driving millions of people around the world into poverty. The price of corn has risen 52% in just one year, sugar 60%, soy 41% and wheat 24%. For more…

Collapse of the Global Economy  Written by Alfonso Elizondo At the time of the publication of Alvin Toffler’s famous book The Third Wave, this narrative genius was already predicting that humankind would soon change its paradigms and its way of looking at the world and at business. Toffler thought that globalization would generate mergers between…

The Trump Era Will Be Short-lived Written by Alfonso Elizondo     The existence of ignorant and messianic comedians who are very successful in media shows and in the new type of entertainment has been partly caused by the incorporation of digital technology in the mass media, the elimination of the spoken and written word…

Trump: A Lunatic on the Loose Written by Alfonso Elizondo There is no doubt that the main issue in today’s global geopolitics is the follies of US President, Donald Trump, which are supported by most members of his cabinet, some members of the Republican Party, and the current obsolete electoral system that belongs to the…

The World in Danger Written by Alfonso Elizondo The eminent scientist, Albert Einstein, said that the great difference between wisdom and stupidity is that wisdom has limits. I mention this phrase from a world-renowned scholar in order to be able to understand the great danger facing the world today with the presence of one of…

Make America ‘WHITE’ Again Written by Alfonso Elizondo   Changing one of the words in the primary slogan of US President-elect, Donald Trump, will make it possible to more clearly understand the cultural phenomenon that is now happening in the West, and particularly in Europe and North America. The vast majority of those who handle…

Two World War Scenarios  Written by Alfonso Elizondo    The presidency of the United States has fallen quite unexpectedly into the hands of a psychopath who has had no political experience in his entire life and whose only professional activity has been as a combination of financial speculator dressed up as a weird character in…

  Liquid Modernity Written by Alfonso Elizondo A few days ago, the eminent Jewish-Polish thinker Zygmunt Bauman, creator of the concept of ‘liquid modernity’ in the 1970s, passed away with complete lucidity at the age of just over 90. From a sociological perspective, Bauman used the term to define transitionality and market deregulation and to…

Last December, in the section by cartoonist Joe Dator of The New Yorker newspaper, it was noted that if the reality is outside the political debate, politics has been left in the hands of demagogues and fanatics. Right now, when social networks allow the immediate dissemination of information, a situation is being created where people…

Reality shows or Tele-reality The reality show is a television genre that shows what happens to real people, as opposed to fictional programs showing what happens to fake people being played by actors. There are three basic types of reality shows: 1. The passive-observer type, where the camera merely observes the daily activities of one…

World War in Sight Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, 10:24 Views: 689   At this point in time, the global geopolitical order is threatened with collapse. Extremism, nationalism and imperialist ambitions are growing rapidly. There are now more than a dozen armed conflicts in various regions of the world that…

   At the moment there is a complex social and political phenomenon of global proportions that points towards an immediate future full of enigmas and contradictions. On the one hand, the population of the Planet has been concentrated on the Asian continent and in the poorest nations on the other continents. The economic system, trade…

Category: News Post-Truth Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, December21, 2016, 15:49 Views: 17   In November, the English word ‘post-truth’ was declared word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary which noticed a huge increase in its use at the time of the referendum on ‘Brexit’ and during the election of the President…

Category: Articles The Collapse of the Republic Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 09:48 Views: 17     The average human being has never been aware that he has been living by a permanent myth all his life and that this has been the case in previous generations and will be…

Category: Articles The Worst US President-Elect Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, December 15, 2016,11:00 Views: 12 Never in the history of the USA has there been an President-elect so lacking in knowledge and experience in politics, so utterly shameless in his behaviour, with a tendency to lie about every possible issue based on…

Category: Articles The new US Cabinet will be very dangerous Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, December 12, 2016, 13:15 Views: 62 I will try to make a list of the main members of Trump’s presidential cabinet and his advisers who will begin to function starting January 20 next year.   White House Chief…

Category: Articles The Living Myths of the West (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 10:12 Views: 11   In light of the worldwide chaos at the present historical moment, where the decline of the West has been sharply highlighted, I will attempt to analyze and question the absurd worldview that…

 Category: Articles The Living Myths of the West (II)  Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 11:55 Views: 8   Now I will try to briefly summarize the main myths that have enabled the hegemony of the West. The vast majority of them are still alive, even though it is clear that…

Category: Articles Between Two Wars Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Friday, December 2, 2016, 12:55 Views: 46     The remarkable decline of the Western world at present is creating a serious confusion in the minds of its political and ideological leaders. While some of them still cling to the neoliberal idea of starting…

Category: Articles Towards a Chaotic New World Order Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 16:34 Views: 6   There are many geopolitical factors giving rise to an unexpected and rapid change in the world order that had been in existence since the end of World War II. Reference could be made…

Category: Articles Trump: The Privatization of Capital Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Friday,  November 25, 2016, 12:12 Views: 2    In these days after the US presidential election there is a kind of power vacuum between Obama and Trump who will assume office on January 20, 2017. Obama has no choice but to leave…

 Category: Articles Democracy Still a Myth Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 09:54 Views: 2     Regardless of the historical period one is talking about, democracy has always been a myth and a permanent farce since it was first established in 300BC in the city of Athens, when its most…

Category: Articles The Farce of Neoliberalism is over Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, November 17, 2016, 14:05 Views: 23       With the Trump win in the US presidential elections, the famous phrase repeated after the fall of the Berlin Wall that “globalization will make us a fairer and freer country” is…