Arrest of a President in His Bedroom

This is a unique moment in international relations. The overthrow of a regime in 30 minutes and the arrest of its president in his pajamas! Kabul24: The fundamental premise of the liberal-centered global order after World War II is the legal equality of states and respect for the principle of.

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TheThe Fall of Caracas and What No One Can Do About It!

Just a few hours after Maduro, the President of Venezuela, hosted a high-level Chinese delegation, the bombing of Caracas—including the presidential palace—began on Trump’s orders. Kabul 24: This timing dramatically recalls NATO’s bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999.The 79-day bombing of Yugoslavia lacked UN Security Council authorization, and China and.

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A good year is evident from its spring!

Donald Trump began the new Gregorian year alongside Netanyahu—a man wanted internationally and one of the world’s most notorious leaders, whose entry into many countries risks arrest. Yet he remains the closest ally and most intimate friend of the U.S. President. Kabul 24: This is not merely a blatant snub.

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Why Do We Fight Over Nothing?

For a long time now, I have noticed that our people argue over issues that are either fundamentally unsolvable, lack precise formulation, have lost their relevance, or are presented in a vague and ambiguous manner. Kabul 24: Sometimes debates also arise over questions that have not been properly framed, and.

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Science and Existential Statements

If someone claims that “there exists at least one mermaid in the world” or “there exists a being in the world that turns copper into gold by touch,” what position would science take? Kabul 24: In his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Popper draws a sharp distinction between two.

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John Everett Millais, Ophelia

Shakespeare grants Hamlet a love only to destroy it through madness—whether feigned or genuine. Millais, however, paints not the tumultuous scene of words, but their aftermath: the silence that lingers after the collapse. Ophelia floats suspended in a moment; a place where life has not yet fully abandoned the body,.

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The Main Suffering Arises from Betrayal of Desire, Not from Failure

Failure means not reaching the object, defeat in achieving a goal, losing an external possibility, and so on. Failure always occurs at the level of reality. It is symbolizable—meaning it is painful, but it can be mourned. Kabul 24: Betrayal of desire means retreating from the point where desire is.

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dney and Our Responsibility

Today’s massacre in Sydney showed that we are still living in the era of September 11. An era that, as the opening of a new century and millennium, began a quarter-century ago with the attack on the World Trade Center towers. Kabul 24: Americans called it the global war on.

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About the film Sentimental Value

 watched the film Sentimental Value and, after a long time, I once again tasted the pleasure of seeing a truly great and truly artistic film. The film begins with a house and ends with a house. Kabul 24: “The house” is the main character of Sentimental Value: a beautiful, living,.

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The New US National Security Strategy, in Simple Terms

In Washington, every few years, they pull out a little instruction booklet and call it the “National Security Strategy”—that’s their official term for the document. In short, it’s how America wants to see the world, who it wants to fight, who it wants to ally with, and where to slam.

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Are we facing a silent epidemic?

I used to think that the most common health problem among women in Kabul was iron deficiency and the anemia caused by it, but my clinical experience over the past year has changed that perception. Kabul 24: Because almost every female patient for whom I ordered a vitamin D level.

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On the Psyche, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Comte, Foucault, and the Film Dark Nuns

On the Psyche, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Comte, Foucault, and the Film Dark NunsIs modern psychiatry a singular, unrivaled grand narrative, or — as Lyotard argues in The Postmodern Condition — should it be regarded merely as one petit récit among many parallel narratives? Kabul 24: The human psyche has been.

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