Mao, the False God

The Eurozone s False Recovery

The False Promise of Digital Democracy

Europe s Bogus Banking Union

The False Promise of a Eurozone Budget

The False Panacea of Labor Market Flexibility

The False Promise of Debt Relief

The False Promise of Global Governance Standards

The Phony Attack on Climate Science

Their blanket denials are no longer credible.

This wasn't just Syria for me anymore, an artificial state with it's own flag, national anthem and football team.

The false count and the number one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight you say the same card all the time.

Some speakers disagreed, seeing efforts to trim mission costs as a false economy.

The Internet is where some young Muslims succumb to the alluring narrative of Islam constructed by those behind the terror attacks of our age.

In this chaotic freedom, suddenly revealed secrets destroyed families and friendships and a common sense of togetherness it shattered social stability, as insecure or falsified as that was.

Well, if you think that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it turns out it's just the wind, you've made an error in cognition, made a Type I error, false positive.

With this move, the military leaders are putting their sham vote aimed at tightening their repressive grip on power ahead of the well being of the Burmese people.

Morsi s decision on November 22 to grant himself absolute authority for the spurious purpose of defending the revolution is not new for Egypt.

Speculative bubbles are the visible manifestation of that temptation. As the bubbles burst and they always do false prosperity is exposed and the defensive tactics of market manipulation become both urgent and seemingly logical.

Sadat gained a privileged place in history and achieved immortality the moment he fled from the comfortable prison of inertia, and from the pantomime solidarity and hollow rhetorical cohesion of Arab summits.

The false belief that we can collectively see the future using science has led us all to make various binding promises about things in that future that no human being can possibly guarantee.

The man who gets up in a crowded theater and shouts, Fire! when there is none is guilty of what happens in the resulting stampede.

America s president is captive to the country s labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.

Of course, anyone who wanted to could have seen American households growing indebtedness, which would have gone a long way toward correcting the false impression of success given by the GDP statistic.

c. 1310 Pseudo Geber, an anonymous Spanish alchemist who wrote under the name of Geber, publishes several books that establish the long held theory that all metals were composed of various proportions of sulfur and mercury.

The core of Japan s political inertia consists in the current pseudo two party system comprising the LDP and the DPJ, because the parties divisions are actually devoid of any consistent ideological and policy differences.

It tried to prevent government scientists from speaking honestly to the public. The Wall Street Journal has similarly peddled anti science and pseudo science to oppose policies to fight human induced climate change.

But, although it reflected real differences between established EU members and the newcomers, it also managed to solidify the false impression that the EU's new members share a similar identity and political agenda.

The easy explanation for this prohibition would be moral aversion to eugenics, the pseudoscience of improving a population s genetic composition, which was popular in the West in the first half of the twentieth century, before being discredited by the example of the Nazis.

More fundamentally, such solutions require abandoning the false dichotomy of liberty and security. If security concerns trump basic rights and freedoms, fanaticism will have scored a victory and the same thing will happen if expressions of Islamophobia and xenophobia increase.

If we cleave to the false security of a supposed science that isn t working, and forget about the philosophy behind it, ideas like personal responsibility and the right to fail, our leaders will very scientifically give us no recovery at all.