Category: Politics

  • ASCS Budget Review 2022

    As done in previous years, ASCS feels the urge to assess the budget brought forward by the Government and provide a holistic critical assessment, meant to facilitate all students as they make their assumptions and conclusions on the 2022 Budget. This original format in which the Budget was presented, is not divided according to the…

  • Taliban Takeover

    Summary of events Ever since the Russian Federation was overthrown in 1989, Afghanistan has been a battleground. A definition of a failed state, Afghanistan was in a state of Anarchy. Rule of law was nonexistent, warlords and tribes waged war on each other to rule one another, and without terms nor adherence to any form…

  • Think justice exists in Malta? Think again!

    Think justice exists in Malta? Think again!

    The justice system is the only mechanism humankind developed to fight the curse of the fifth deadly sin – wrath. ⚡ If it doesn’t work, we don’t just lose the system. We lose any attempt at democracy.

  • Changing voter behaviour

    Changing voter behaviour

    There are numerous mental shortcuts we take as human beings. We call these biases and science documents a whole list of them. This article explains how such shortcuts affect elections in Malta, and how I would solve this situation.

  • Għal waqfa li jmiss

    Għal waqfa li jmiss

    Il-ħsieb tal-partiti għandu jinbidel f’wieħed ta’ pjan għal futur ta’ pajjiżna.

  • Climate Change: You and your children are doomed

    Climate Change: You and your children are doomed

    The IPCC report recently published gives a very bleak assessment of our current climate condition, and warns of the worldwide consequences to come.

  • Unto the next interlude

    Unto the next interlude

    Tippreferi bil-Malti? Aqra l-istess artiklu hawn: Għal waqfa li jmiss In the space of just 8 years, Malta has had a total of 2 prime ministers, 2 general elections and 4 opposition leaders. For a relatively brief period, that sounds like a lot of political change to take in. Much like a theatrical production, the Maltese…

  • Afghanistan: Back in Taliban Hands

    Afghanistan: Back in Taliban Hands

    With the US pushing for the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, which started February of last year, the country has slowly but surely started to fall back into the hands of the Taliban, the terrorist group the US wanted to get rid of after the Twin towers fell, and the whole reason there were…

  • WTF is: Israel-Palestine Conflict

    WTF is: Israel-Palestine Conflict

    If you’re reading this article, you have access to internet, and if you have access to internet, you’ve surely seen thousands of posts on social media, and some might have been your own. But beyond the cacophony of trends and pseudo-morality, do you really know what the conflict is all about?

  • Love, Politics and Castration

    Love, Politics and Castration

    In 1964, an interviewer asked Hannah Arendt the following question:  “Does not man, as a politically active being, need a commitment to a group? A commitment which they can to some extent be called love? Do you not worry that your attitude could be politically sterile?” Can we be politically active with or without groups?…