The Foundations Of An Enlightened Democracy
To have a sane or just society, a democratic society, a free society, or a society that is not bent on self-destruction, the core foundation must be the realization that…
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Reflections on Safehavens & Fascism
Everywhere you go, people are more alike than they are different, and every society and every culture and nation have their challenges. Yet, at any given moment in time there…
Election 2020 USSA: No Matter Which Elite Pawn You Vote For, You Get Fascism
This short essay was written in September, before the election, but the analysis still holds, and the points made are still relevant, and in fact, extremely important to understand. The…
Russia, Fascism & The West
Whatever problems Russia has, and every country has problems, as does Russia, two things are clear: Russia is not trying to take over the world. Davos and Washington are doing…
A State of the World Address (In under two minutes)
It seems to me that the ecological crisis is at a critical stage, as is the war on democracy, with the billionaires and corporations having taken over the planet, and…
A New Social Contract: The Parable of the Happy Kingdom
A brief preamble: The old social contract, the last social contract, has clearly broken down. That was the New Deal, which was a compromise between the business elite and the…
Compromise or Collapse
The elite always do the same thing. They have repeated the same failed patterns for millennia. They never learn. They could be wealthy and powerful, virtually in perpetuity, or at…
Government and Corporations Care About Your Privacy: That’s Why They Support the Bi-Partisan Global Fascist Coup
Western governments and their criminal friends in big tech pretend to care about citizen’s privacy, while secretly destroying it. But privacy is a misnomer and a red herring. The central…
Freedom of Speech vs Censorship
With the disgraceful behaviour of the Intercept, first censoring the venerable Glenn Greenwald, then attacking and slandering him after he resigned, over his refusal to abide by censorship at the…
Are We Serious About Human Health? The Rhetoric and Gestures Say Yes, But The Evidence Says No
The government pretends to care deeply and profoundly about human health, using police state measures in a time of crisis, justified by their supposed great concern for health. Yet, the…
Green Homes: Best Practices
After more than 50 years of experimentation and development in the field, done by literally millions of people, and after 35 years of my own research, I would offer this…
More Faux Left Follies
Letter to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives I used to consider CounterPunch, Canadian Dimension, DemocracyNow! and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives among my most trusted sources for news…
Lemmings, Cowards & Sheep Unite!
Covid-1984, which is the best way to describe the recent events, is certainly acting as a litmus test. It is separating clearly the men from the boys, the women from…
US Election 2020: Time For Secession
I think the people of the United States should immediately secede from Washington, Wall Street, and Langley – whether Trump or Biden or any other corporate-fascist poster-child is in office…
Reflections On 2020: Bye, Bye Bernie
Bernie could have beaten both Biden and Trump. But Bernie wasn’t up to it. That leaves one choice: revolution. Bernie failed the people in the end, in 2020. Some predicted…
Shocking Rumours of US Election Fraud
Speculations of vote fraud? That sort of thing could never happen in the USA. The US elections are such a clown car show that I don’t follow them much. The…
Getting Off The Treadmill: Seeking More Through Less
Newer, better, more… Newer, better, more… On and on the circle goes. But when you begin to see through such delusions and self-limiting, self-imprisoning patterns, then the door to true…
Taoist Political Philosophy – Or, How To Not Make The World Worse, By Good Intentions Gone terribly Wrong
The modern world, and particularly the modern Western world, which has now, as of these past few decades, successfully, and tragically, exported itself to become the basis and norm of…
A Deep Green (and/or) Tiny Home
Dreaming of a greener home – whether tiny size or otherwise? Where to begin? Learn how to do it by doing it. Read books, watch videos, do loads of research,…
Who’s Side Are You On?
It is very easy to not see the forest for the trees. In fact, it is nearly universal. For example, it took millenia before people broadly began to question whether…