Editorial Team

Why the Global Economy Needs a Revolution if We Want a Planet, Life on it, and Democracy Across it — Or, Why You Have to Pay the Real Cost of That Cheeseburger There you are, eating your cheeseburger. You paid maybe five whole dollars for it. But how much does it cost? Ah, my friend. … Read more

A Comment on Epstein and the Media Lab…or How The New Fascisms of the 21st Century Are Different From the 20th I read recently, as perhaps you did, how MIT’s Media Lab accepted — even courted — money from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe you were shocked. I wasn’t. I don’t mean that in the … Read more

(Why) The Best Way Exploit a Society is to Get it to Exploit Itself You don’t have to look too hard to see it. There’s an American President…marking up maps with a Sharpie…like an infant…so he’s not humiliated by a foolish lie. LOL. Yet there’s the British PM, lampoonishly wrecking democracy. What the? America, and … Read more

What the Ghosts of Keynes and Marx Teach Us About America and Britain’s Eerily Similar Collapse Aug 28, 2019 Member-only Save In case you haven’t heard by now, British parliament’s been suspended, to try and force through a catastrophic No-Deal Brexit. In case you’re not British, that means that there will be food rationing, medicine … Read more

Where Did All the Trees, Rivers, Fish, Animals — not to Mention Democracy, our Future, Sanity, Truth, and Trust — Really Go? Here’s a tiny question: Why does it feel like everything’s collapsing?

Why Authoritarian-Fascism is Rising Simultaneously in China, India, and America — and What it Should Teach Us For Tomorrow Here’s a tiny question: is it just a cosmic coincidence that three of the world’s most significant countries — China, India, and America — are all…

When America’s Jews are Warning It’s Happening Here, All Over Again…Maybe the Rest of Us Had Better Start Listening Aug 13, 2019 Member-only Save I saw recently via my Twitter feedthat Jews have been protesting this administration’s barbaric “policies”, en masse, across the country. Thousands of people, in more than fifty places. Many were arrested. … Read more

What Makes a Society a Genuinely Happy Place — and How America Got it Wrong There’s a question that deserves to be thought about — which we don’t consider often enough. It’s a simple one. Why are Europeans so much happier than Americans? Or, conversely, why are Europeans the happiest people in the world…in human … Read more

How America’s Media Establishment Failed at its Most Crucial Task — and Left the American Mind Broken Aug 6, 2019 Member-only Save Twitter erupted today in a firestorm over what the New York Times’s would later itself describe as a “bad headline.”The problem, though, is that it wasn’t just a bad headline. It would have … Read more