Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Some prominent Brits do respect Iran

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Yesterday’s post listed three books about Iran – the country which the US has just bombed - with Israeli agents now apparently In full charg...

Monday, June 23, 2025

American Madness – bombing Iran

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The closest I came to Iran was when I worked (for 2 years) in Azerbaijan in the early 2000s and was for a few brief hours diverted to Tehran...

Sunday, June 15, 2025

This is Fascism

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Rutger Bregman is becoming one of my favourite writers – first for Utopia for Realists (2016), then for H umankind – a hopeful history ( ...

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Is the US really going Fascist?

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Answering the question requires a definition of the word. I wanted to extract the essence of the term from the voluminous texts which have a...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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