We need to stop making the irrational and unfounded, anti-empirical assumption that the corporate and financial elite are stupid – they are demonstrably sociopathic, but they are not stupid, as a class – and it would be stupid of them to not cooperate and coordinate, orchestrate, plan and carry out
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The Disaffected Lib: If You Want a Future, You’ll Have to Fight Power to Get It – Monbiot
The political class, as anyone who has followed its progress over the past three years can surely now see, is chaotic, unwilling and, in isolation, strategically incapable of addressing even short-term crises, let alone a vast existential predicament. Yet a widespread and wilful naivety prevails: the belief that voting is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Lifeblood Of Democracy – A Guest Post By Pamela MacNeil
In response to my post yesterday on rebellion, Pamela MacNeil had this commentary, which I am featuring as a guest post: Rebels Lorne, especially intellectual rebels, are the life blood of democracy. From the time we are born or at the very least from the time we start school, we
Continue readingWe Pivot: The Importance of General Organa
The Importance of General Organa Princess Leia was great, but General Organa is the one I’ll be looking to in dark times Source: The Importance of General Organa (with image, tweets) · anne_theriault · Storify This is an amazing piece sharing the truth of greatness and how easy it is
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: What is happening in Venezuela? It’s certainly not what the mainstream media is telling you
“Much of the reporting by the mass media gives the impression that Venezuela faces a national rebellion. The reality, says Miguel Tinker Salas, is that the protests have been restricted to mostly middle and upper middle class neighborhoods, not entire cities.” – Truthout, What is happening in Venezuela?(Many, many
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