Geopolitics

“The first law of politics is that a body politic is divided into a ruling class and a ruled class. Human beings are born babies…They survive only in nurseries…” R.G. Collingwood–The New Leviathan–published 1942 Let’s talk real privilege: A billion dollars is an obscene quantity of money. According to Forbes...

ADMIN NOTE: We are sad to see the great man and a great journalist pass. You are missed. There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard...

What they've told us: The Palestinian group, Hamas, broke out of Gaza, on the 7th of October. It proceeded indiscriminately butchering innocent Israelis, beheading children and abducting hostages. Global media reflexively ratcheted-up outrage and retaliation. Pro-Israeli heads appeared on every screen. An enraged Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called for the...

There is dissension in the ranks. Usually Biden friendly publications, Axios and the Financial Times, don't publish articles citing concerns. Axios headlined an article, on the 20th of October: “behind the curtain, a rattled US government fears war could spread.” It cites anonymous sources suggesting the administration is in over...

All This Death Is The Fault Of The Western Press – Caitlin Johnstone - Whenever something like this happens warmongers always seize on the emotional frenzy of the moment to shove through insane acts of warmongering and scream vitriol at anyone who questions them. Then later when all the facts are...

Back during the second world war, a 21-year-old Yaroslav Hunka volunteered into a notorious Waffen SS military unit. On the 22nd of September 2023, 338 Members of the Canadian Parliament honoured Yaroslav with a standing ovation. The remarkable moment occurred just as Ukraine President Zelensky concluded his speech, and the...

The antidote to sin and folly lies in the resolute abandonment of censorship. A democracy, poised on the precipice of descent into oligarchy and tyranny, can be salvaged solely through the steadfast rejection of the censor. Since the renaissance, every stride towards human advancement has hinged upon the unrestrained dissemination...

by MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER from Substack :- Climate change is causing devastating fires around the world, say top government officials, influential scientists, and the world’s largest newspapers. Greece’s civil protection minister said climate change was causing the fires in Greece, Hawaii, and Canada. Climate change is increasing average temperatures that dry out...

For very many problems, the problems are combinatorially explosive. You cannot conceivably search the entire space of a problem like climate change. We aren't even sure of all the variables that need to be searched. We do not have the time, the machinery, the resources to search the whole space....