As the twenty-aughts gave way to the twenty-teens, it became readily apparent that the recovery from the Great Recession was not working its way throughout the entire population. As was…
This week, I watched the premiere of Josh Fox’s documentary film, Gasland II. Very troubling. The story line confirms that America has lost its moorings and has veered off in…
Once again the US procedural republic adds another padlock to the door that would lead the nation onward on the road to democracy. As has been the case over the…
We live by numbers and some more important than others. Some don’t change often so we keep them in our head: age, date of birth, height, weight, phone number, address,…
In his influential blog post, Empires Then and Now, the former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, Paul Craig Roberts, muses about the nature of the New Empire. According…
The latest statistics from the National Household Survey indicate that one out of five Canadians was born outside of the country. The report states that “Canada is a nation with…
Apparently, what I want, I can’t have. I would like to live in a democratic state where I could participate meaningfully in the political decisions to be made. Living in…
At the outset, when I first began this blog, I wanted to bring to the reader’s attention some of the cultural myths arising from our political economy that we usually…
The news coming out of the USA last week was pretty bleak: another senseless act of indiscriminate violence at the Boston Marathon, where two home-made bombs were detonated amongst the…
I live in Quebec, Canada’s only French speaking province. Here, the socio-economic system was crafted to be extremely resistant to institutional change. It is what it is. Most of the…
The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games. … Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.…
More than four years have passed since the collapse of the world’s financial system. A crippling economic recession lingers as economic growth continues to be anemic as the economy fluctuates…
There are two Americas: the imagined community called the nation otherwise known as the United States of America to which the vast majority believes to include all American citizens and…
I get democracy. It is a set of political institutions that allows the demos, otherwise known as the multitudes, otherwise known as the people, to self-rule. By its very nature…
Enthralled by Mammon, the tellers of the Hell-monger’s Tale seek to turn the planet from an earthly paradise into a living hell. In fact, burning up the world’s stock of…
Observing what’s happening in the US as Americans are only six weeks from electing their president, I am struck by a society in complete disarray. A stalled economy, more than…
Calling a general election during the summer months in order to avoid the anticipated turmoil of a government commission mandated to investigate corruption in the construction industry and dragging out…
Before I start my rant, it should be known that I have been a candidate for political parties that wanted to change the voting system on four occasions. I have…
It’s a funny thing living in the second decade of the twenty-first century. There’s such a wide gap between our technological reach and our social institutions. On the same day,…
Politics is all about who decides on whose behalf. Inevitably, political decisions entail winners and losers. In an ideal world, political decisions would be made by inclusive institutions that allow…
