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Tolkien knew that his imaginative reconstruction of a mythic past was fiction. Reactionary ideologues lack any such self-awareness.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) that boasts of defending human rights has been accused of receiving millions of dollars from various wealthy governments in the
Tolkien was far more concerned that we take his novel on its own terms as a work of art than that we arrive at some correct interpretation.
Thousands gathered in Washington this week to support Israel. The Israeli Consulate announced 290,000 people attended, while estimates show they were off by about 265,000. Still, support for Israel from elected officials was clear.
Capitalist globalisation hasn’t brought peace, it has redistributed power between states—a recipe for war and revolution