Who rules the world? is a question that cannot have a simple and definite answer as the world is too varied and too complex. However it is not hard to identify the prominent and influential actors. In this book, Noam Chomsky describes that powerful states, corporations, wealthy elites as well as global institutions have strong influence to shape how the world should be. This situation intertwined with a lot of issues from military intervention, terrorism, the media and propaganda, climate change and the threat of nuclear war –just to name a few. At the end of the day, the economy will be the key knowing the business interest will play the major roles. Like or dislike, the question “Who rules the world?” cannot ignore the U.S. as the only superpower as well as the country who serves as the most active player in the arena of global politics and economy. As an idealist and legalist, Chomsky criticizes the United States foreign policy that tends to be non compliant to international law and...
Everyone knows that Mary was the mother of Jesus, the same knowledge we knew that her pregnancy happened when she was a virgin, when the archangel Gabriel appeared to her in Nazareth to announce that she would miraculously conceive through the Holy Spirit and give birth to Jesus. However, did Mary remain a virgin her whole life? When Catholics are praying to Mary, are they just honouring her, or worshipping her? Is this unbiblical? Who is Mary? At the foot at the cross, what Jesus said about Mary before He died on the cross? Was the word “Behold your son… Behold your mother” just a word of adoption or was there something to understand much deeply in relation to our spirituality? Apart from this, if Mary had other children with Joseph after she gave birth to Jesus, why Jesus asked John --His beloved disciple-- to take care of her? Where were His brothers if He really had biological brothers who were born to Mary? This book reveals a lot of things that will stimulate our thought --or I c...