Can democracy just be tacked on to the country? Observation: Saddam Hussein is the only person who has succeeded in stabilizing power in a country where the Ottomans, the British (1920-1932), the monarchy until 1958 and the Baasist military regime that preceded him failed. Saddam Hussein survived his war against Iran and the Gulf war.

Definition of a Robot: “A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator…that performs functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human.”

Jeremy Narby is a Swiss-based PhD anthropologist and indigenous land rights activist who grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury and received his doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. He is the author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge and most recently, Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge. Narby has worked for two decades with indigenous Amazonian people in efforts to guarantee their territories and cultures.

William Cooper Torrent