Bernie Sanders: Real resistance and the steep learning curve
Bill Martin Clinton/Warren 2020! Please mark my words, this is where things are heading. Most of what calls itself “the Resistance” in present U.S. society is complete nonsense, of...
(Neo)Liberalism and its Discontents
Frank Lee FROM CLASSICAL LIBERALISM TO NEO-LIBERALISM The contemporary neo-liberal coalition consisting politically of a centre-left, centre, and centre-right – what we might call the neo-liberal blob – has...
Impeachment, the Left, and the Deep State (Keep going, Toto!)
Bill Martin Dear Off Guardian readers, Warm greetings, my name is Bill Martin. You can read a little about me at the end of this article. I have been...
Beyond Liberalism: The emergence of new identity politics
Shahzada Rahim Liberalism emerged as the most enduring philosophy of the enlightenment era but since the dawn of the 21st century, it seems dying in a vault. ‘Philosophy will...
Happenings in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
Edward Curtin There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Buffalo Springfield The Sunday newspaper had been left on the park bench. Its book page had lists...
Eurasianism: The struggle for the multi-polar world
Shahzada Rahim Three decades ago, American pragmatic commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote The end of History and the Last man, proclaiming the end of ideological war and celebrating the victory...
Looking Through the Screen at the World’s Suffering
Most people on this earth live on the edge of an abyss. Life is a daily struggle to stay alive, to acquire enough to eat and drink, rudimentary health...
Legal highs and crazy fools
Kevin Smith Some people have such a way with words, especially US presidents. These are my two personal favourites, priceless for different reasons, from Trump and Obama. This, Trump...
Shelter from the Storm
Eddison Flame Trouble I look around at the world and I see wars and violence occurring everywhere. I see my government making wars, bulling smaller poorer nations. I see...
Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning
Edward Curtin To give up beauty and the sensual happiness that comes with it and devote one’s self exclusively to unhappiness requires a nobility I lack. However, after all,...
Idea Bomb
< h6>Eddison Flame</h6> I want to set off an idea bomb. I’ve been trying to set one off for some time now, but so far I haven’t had any...
What if…
Eddison Flame What if humans weren’t meant to live such disconnected lives? What if humans were actually meant to live in vibrant flourishing and caring communities? What if humans...
A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot
Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel, My Little Town Hello my old friends Paul and Art,...
What Are We Working For “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people do the kinds of work they do. I sensed early on that the economic system was a...
Syria and the will of God
Kevin Smith In my lifetime, there has never been a greater force of evil than the terror rained down on Syria by foreign nations. Its cruelty and savagery have...
The Cell Phone and the Virgin: A Montreal Odyssey
Edward Curtin And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers There...
Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World
Most suicides die of natural causes, slowly and in silence.
But we hear a lot about the small number of suicides, by comparison, who kill themselves quickly by their own...
Westworld: Does the ‘Door’ of Perception Lead to the Valley Beyond?
Dan Mallon Dan Mallon gives his overview and analysis of the psycho/social themes in HBO’s hit series Westworld. Who, what, when, why; where are we? In Johnathan Nolan and...
Servile Academia vs Revolutionary Philosophy
by Andre Vltchek, Counterpunch Philosophers have been muzzled by the Western global regime; most of great modern philosophy concealed from the masses. What has been left of it, allowed...
