Warning! False Flag, War, Fascism & Collapse, Coming Fast
False flag warning as Europe and the West face economic and political collapse: What is rapidly escalating and accelerating, and rapidly coming to a climax, is a confluence of crises…
False flag warning as Europe and the West face economic and political collapse: What is rapidly escalating and accelerating, and rapidly coming to a climax, is a confluence of crises…
(An open letter to Hrvoje Moric, at Geopolitics & Empire) Excellent discussion, as always, Hrvoje. After four decades and over 100,000 hours of research, studies and writing on geopolitics, political…
“Well, here comes ol’ Charlie Brown … Good ol’ Charlie Brown, yes, sir! … Good ol’ Charlie Brown … How I hate him!” The greatest comic strip of all time…
As Chogyam Trungpa said, “The first thing to do is cut the speed.” Slow down. Unplug from all media and electronics. Make time for stillness, silence and solitude. Reflect. Read,…
click to readI attended an excellent masterclass on "Trans-Inclusive Philosophy" with Sophie Grace Chappell last week, put on by The Philosopher magazine. She wrote Epiphanies and Transfigured, and this paper…
Byung-Chul Han's The Spirit of Hope is a beautiful book, the kind you want to treat with care and won't dare dog-ear a page. Anselm Kiefer's illustrations throughout provide a…
Welcome, dear reader(s) to my annual look at the best books I read last year. I do this not to brag about how many books I read (22, but who’s…
One of the privileges of writing a blog for caregivers is that occasionally, someone sends me a book to review. (This makes me very happy.) Today I want to tell…
One of the privileges of writing a blog for caregivers is that occasionally, someone sends me a book to review. (This makes me very happy.) Today I want to tell…
Many of us live in a punitive, carceral type of society that can make it difficult to have compassion for ourselves or others. It's an era of the glorification of…
We all have little things that irk us, things that other, more normal people would never notice or care about. In my case, it’s lazy and/or stupid media blather. I…
I’ve written extensively and in depth, for decades, in two published books and over a thousand published articles, with tens of thousands of references, on the rapidly shifting state of…
To be brief: The obsession with quantity and volume has to end. More is not always better. Quality matters most. But people in the 21st century are addicted to endless…
I recently binge-watched all of Group, a show inspired by a novel by Irvin Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure. So I revisited Yalom’s non-fiction to see how closely the series aligns…
I read Andreas Malm‘s book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline a few months ago, then watched the movie, and then was reminded of it all again by Abigail Thorn’s…
Happy New Year, readers. And since you are readers, I thought I would give you the New Year’s gift of a list of my favourite books of 2023. (You will…
An excellent, important video was the inspiration for this short post (linked here, below) from a generally lackluster podcast. The musings arising after watching the video, however, I would say…
Or, The Big Picture: Economic Strength vs Economic Insolvency: US, Canada and Uruguay compared Uruguayan national debt in 2023:$40 billion USD(52% of GDP) Canadian national debt in 2023:$1.4 trillion USDOr$1,400…
Can sitcoms save the day? Back in the 80s, there was a very funny show about a detective agency, Moonlighting. It was a take on the classic enemies-to-lovers trope with…
Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, was originally published in 1995 but more recently updated in a 25th anniversary edition in 2020. Well, he added…