Patriotism Inc. (A multinational company)

by Joseph Guthrie   “Patriotism ruins history,” Johann Wolfgang van Goethe once famously quipped and whether you agree or not, it is at the very least the penultimate tool that many people utilise in order to extrapolate their sense of superiority over the rest of humanity. It has been used  to “justify” atrocities from the genocide… Read More

What The Paralympics and Colin Kaepernick Tells Us About Honouring War Veterans

by Christienna Fryar  For sports fans in the United States, early September brings the return of football[1]: college football; high school football; and of course, the NFL. For all its fanfare, the beginning of the football season can be a fairly perfunctory affair. This season, not so much. From the moment journalists realised that San Francisco… Read More