In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL). ARCNL represents a unique form of public-private collaboration in science, aligned with a political climate that actively encouraged partnerships between academia and industry. How did this collaboration come into being, and ho...

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The American Dictator – Kool-Aid voor de sekte van Trump

Leiderschap bestaat bij de gratie van volgerschap. Donald Trump weet dat: ‘I think I have the greatest base in the history of politics because they are not believers in false things.’ Frank Schaper bestudeerde de interactie tussen Trump en zijn volgelingen. Wie zijn deze normale, maar misleide Amerikanen die écht denken dat hij hun Verlosser is en dat de verkiezingen van 2020 zijn gestolen? Dominee Wiggins zei ...

In de buitenbaan van het geopolitieke strijdgewoel, knettert het van diplomatieke bedrijvigheid. In de vooren achterkamers van de macht, bereiden topdiplomaten belangrijke politieke beslissingen voor, bouwen ze bruggen of ruimen ze puin. Dealmakers, bemiddelaars, strategen, netwerkers… Diplomaten komen in vele vormen en gewichten, maar hun rol en hun invloed zijn cruciaal in de relaties tussen wereldleiders en de bepaling van hun beleid. In Logboek van een topdiplomaat blikt Johan Verb...

We have an urgent problem to solve.

Our societies and progressive political organizations are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They have been there for some time and are imploding in uncertainty.

Everyone – organizers and otherwise – is more and more aware of two sets of information. The first is that the capitalist system is the root cause of the climate crisis and has absolutely no perspective of solving it. The logical consequence is that the task of the progressive move...

International Studies aims to understand the global complexities of the world in which we live today. Central in these complexities is the position of the human individual, who is both an actor and reactor in global events. This textbook introduces three I's – interests, identities, ideas – that provide a framework to understand human behaviour in today's world. The role of people is further elaborated in the three spatial dimensions of the local, regional, and global level. This gives In...

Op 1 mei 1985 eiste een aanslag van de communistische terreurgroep CCC twee levens in Brussel. Het was het dieptepunt van een grote reeks aanslagen in België waarbij ook tal van gewonden vielen. In dit boek beschrijft criminoloog en journalist Paul Ponsaers de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de CCC, haar gedachtegoed en internationale connecties, haar acties en haar verdere plannen (inclusief ontvoeringen en executies), die gedwarsboomd werden door de arrestatie van de kernleden. Ponsaers onthult ...

MULTI-MEDIA_BOOK! TRUE-CRIME! JFK Cold Case Solved!

Trump's File Release Provides Crucial Clue! New book reveals gruesome truth thanks to previously secret film and audio recordings from CBS/SFB! Now, author, lawyer, psychologist, and profiler Dr. M.Sc. Roman F. Martinu finally presents the scandalous machinations of a coup to the public: The secret files on the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, released at the instigation of President Trump, put the author on the crucial trail! Abov...

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.The title De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia literally translates to "Of a republic's best state and of the new island Utopia."

It is variously...