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Tag: Ideologies

  • The Times Are Descending into Madness: You’d Be Crazy Not to Notice

    The Times Are Descending into Madness: You’d Be Crazy Not to Notice

    You have to see that the buildings are anorexic, you have to see that the language is schizogenic, that “normalcy” is manic, and medicine and business are paranoid. — James Hillman, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling The pain incurred by bracing awareness is crucial here: The wound can act as a […]

  • How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada’s Raison d’État

    How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada’s Raison d’État

    Draw the Line action, Ottawa, September 20, 2025, part of a country-wide day of action against the Carney government’s anti-social pro-war agenda. The measures taken by the Carney government since it took over power after the last election confirm this government’s adherence to the methods Carney and several of his ministers and point men of […]

  • How Not To Say “No Kings” to Venezuela

    How Not To Say “No Kings” to Venezuela

    Ukraine banner at a January 20 Trump Inauguration protest (Photo credit Sean Reynolds) In light of 18 October’s “No Kings” protests, which will undoubtedly fail to sanction President Trump’s moves toward war in Iran and Venezuela, I wrote up these notes for a peace group I work with on a recent interview I conducted for […]

  • Imperialism, Multipolarity, and Palestine

    It is a continuing source of frustration that an important segment of the Left holds the view that weakening the United States’ long-established grip on the top rungs of the hierarchical system of imperialism is — in itself — an attack on imperialism. Many of our friends, including those who claim to aim at a […]

  • It’s Revolution or Death

    The third and final installment of the series seeks to bring the lessons learned in the first two episodes home. This segment features an interview with Peter Gelderloos in which he describes his experience working to build transformative infrastructure in Catalunya. Not all of us are so lucky to live near a large and organized […]

  • How to Tell When Authoritarians Become Fascists

    The times they are a-changin. And quickly. And not in a good way. And it’s scary. The façade of democracy is being ripped away by politicians who never liked it but lately feel emboldened to admit it. Most important of all, they have begun to act like unapologetic authoritarians. And brag about it. Suddenly the […]

  • How the Toxic Manosphere is Grooming Adolescent Boys

    How the Toxic Manosphere is Grooming Adolescent Boys

    Attribution: Denitza Tchacarova: A Russian poster urging open your eyes – against women being abused. Over the past decade, the “Manosphere” — a loosely connected but increasingly influential network of blogs, forums, influencers, and online communities — has become a powerful vehicle for promoting traditional gender roles, male grievance politics, and opposition to feminism. Once considered […]

  • Does China have an Internationalist Foreign Policy?

    A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC. Reliable left observers like Ann Garrison, writing in Black Agenda Report, have voiced concerns about Chinese investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based on Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red, […]

  • Trump’s Absurd War on Education

    The US is at war. It has always been at war. Whether a world war, a proxy conflict, an armed intervention, a psyop, or a regime change mission, the United States has not enjoyed a single moment of true, unadulterated peace. And it’s not just at war with nations abroad. The US is also at […]

  • Trump Fascism?

    With the second coming of Trump, many who profess left credentials again proclaim fascism is back, after we voted “fascism” out in 2020. Every four years we hear the story: “this election is the most important in our lifetime.” Republicans are the new fascism, Democrats are the lesser evil. No matter corporate interests fund both […]

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