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The Age of Self-Inflicted Catastrophe’s Latest, Greatest Example Why — why on earth — would anyone want American style healthcare? You might be wondering why I even ask. After all, American healthcare is one of the modern world’s greatest and most epic…

The First Generation in America to Live in Poverty and Precarity Since the Great Depression I read a truly shocking statistic today. Boomers held 21% of American wealth at age 35. Gen X, 8%. Millennials? Just 3%. Think about that for a second.3%.They’re 25% of the total population. Maybe you’re not surprised…

Why Women are Changing a Dystopian World of Male Violence, While Men are Busy…Being Men There’s a strange and awesome thing happening in the world today. The most radical and transformative leaders are all…women. Or at least mostly women. The men, meanwhile are busy…being men. Grinning, foolish, violent, crude, and selfish. Trumps bellowing like toddlers…

When the Precarious Ally With the Powerful to Dominate the Powerless You’d be kidding yourself — like American pundits are — if you haven’t observed by now that America’s having something like a classic proto-fascist meltdown. Demagoguery, demonization, scapegoating, camps, “animals!,” “vermin!,”and parallel institutions — check, check, check.

How Did the World End Up in Such a Mess? Big Idiots Rose to the Heights of Power by Double Crossing Little Idiots One of the great unanswered questions of now is this: is the gruesome state of the world the result of a few big idiots, a lot of little idiots, or, perhaps, a … Read more

Catastrophic Climate Change is not a Problem for Fascists — It is a Solution Sometimes, when I write scary essays, I encourage you not to read them. This one’s different. It’s going to be brutal, scary, jarring, and alarming. But if you want my thoughts on the future, then read away.

Why The Global Climate Strike Matters, Or Why We Have to Get Much More Radical if We Want a Planet, a Future, and a Civilization In case you haven’t heard, today was the day there was a…global climate strike. And that…

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