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    On America, Russia and Pre-Emptive War
    Fred Guerin
    • Mar 31
    • 3 min

    On America, Russia and Pre-Emptive War

    At the end of the day, we should understand that it was the US who provided the quasi-legal justification for Russia's present military...
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    Anti-Vaxxers, Anti-Maskers and the Trucker 'Freedom' Convoy
    Fred Guerin
    • Feb 1
    • 5 min

    Anti-Vaxxers, Anti-Maskers and the Trucker 'Freedom' Convoy

    Yesterday, I wrote on Facebook about anti-vaxx and free speech. Today I want to say something about the anti-vaxx movement and the recent...
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    On the Principle of Reciprocity in Foreign Relations
    Fred Guerin
    • Jan 5
    • 6 min

    On the Principle of Reciprocity in Foreign Relations

    At least one measure of how propagandized we have all become in North America is our incapacity to imagine the world from the perspective...
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    On Old-Growth Logging, Deforestation and Habitat Destruction
    Fred Guerin
    • Nov 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    On Old-Growth Logging, Deforestation and Habitat Destruction

    The National Observer has an article today about political leaders at the COP26 in Glasgow "promising" to halt the ‘chainsaw massacre’ of...
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    On Genocide at Home and Away
    Fred Guerin
    • Oct 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    On Genocide at Home and Away

    While researching the topic of genocide, I came across a statistic that rather stunned me: it has been estimated by the Political...
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    COVID-19: Aerosol vs Droplet Transmission
    Fred Guerin
    • Sep 27, 2021
    • 4 min

    COVID-19: Aerosol vs Droplet Transmission

    I was fairly certain a year ago that the COVID virus was transmitted through aerosols and not through droplets or touch. An aerosol is a...
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    Psychiatry as Pseudoscience
    Fred Guerin
    • Sep 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Psychiatry as Pseudoscience

    Okay...I am going to say it: Psychiatry is a pseudo-science and has been from day one. Psychiatric diagnoses of so-called mental...
    72 views0 comments
    What Should an Effective Climate Strike Look Like?
    Fred Guerin
    • Sep 25, 2021
    • 5 min

    What Should an Effective Climate Strike Look Like?

    Well, for inspiration, we might begin to answer the above question by talking to McDonald's workers in Denmark. The latter make $22 an...
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    On the Ethics and Politics of Vaccine Passports
    Fred Guerin
    • Sep 9, 2021
    • 5 min

    On the Ethics and Politics of Vaccine Passports

    Next Monday (September 13) people in BC will need proof of vaccination if they want to access some events, services and businesses. The...
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    Avi Lewis, Radical Change and Party Politics
    Fred Guerin
    • Jul 24, 2021
    • 4 min

    Avi Lewis, Radical Change and Party Politics

    When Avi Lewis decided to move to electoral politics and bring the latter into dialogue with progressive ecological movements I cheered...
    24 views1 comment
    There is Nothing 'Theoretical' About Critical Race Theory
    Fred Guerin
    • Jun 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    There is Nothing 'Theoretical' About Critical Race Theory

    When scientists use the word ‘theory’ they are usually referring to something abstract or hypothetical, yet to be fully verified by...
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    On Possible and Sustainable Futures
    Fred Guerin
    • Jun 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    On Possible and Sustainable Futures

    I’m neither pessimistic nor fatalistic by nature. That we should endeavor to soberly assess the way we have raised the planets...
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    The Amazon Workplace: Planned Worker Obsolescence
    Fred Guerin
    • Jun 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Amazon Workplace: Planned Worker Obsolescence

    You have, no doubt, all heard the expression 'planned obsolescence': in other words, the planning or designing of a product that has only...
    20 views0 comments
    Avi Lewis: The 'Leap' from Movements Into Party Politics
    Fred Guerin
    • Jun 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    Avi Lewis: The 'Leap' from Movements Into Party Politics

    There is a necessary and potentially productive tension between progressive movements and political parties. When they lack leadership or...
    26 views1 comment
    Israel is Losing The Propaganda War
    Fred Guerin
    • May 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Israel is Losing The Propaganda War

    If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear over the course of 54 years of occupation, war crimes and apartheid in the...
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    On Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Democratic Eco-Socialism.
    Fred Guerin
    • May 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    On Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Democratic Eco-Socialism.

    There is a common misconception that capitalism without neoliberalism would be fine. But it is important to recognize that capitalism,...
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    The Politics of Philosophy
    Fred Guerin
    • May 23, 2021
    • 6 min

    The Politics of Philosophy

    The German-American Harvard political philosopher Leo Strauss once said that “philosophy is the attempt to replace opinion by knowledge,...
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    The Racist, Neoliberal Roots of Garrett Hardin's 'Tragedy of the Commons'
    Fred Guerin
    • May 10, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Racist, Neoliberal Roots of Garrett Hardin's 'Tragedy of the Commons'

    Back in the early 80's as a young philosophy student, I read an article by the ecologist/ biologist Garrett Hardin entitledThe Tragedy of...
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    China as Existential Threat...Again
    Fred Guerin
    • May 7, 2021
    • 3 min

    China as Existential Threat...Again

    “The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil…” George Orwell 1984 When space debris from a Chinese rocket is predicted to...
    16 views1 comment
    Colombia: Mass Protest and Police Violence
    Fred Guerin
    • May 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Colombia: Mass Protest and Police Violence

    Yet another US-backed neoliberal fascist regime is in chaos. In the midst of a pandemic when Colombians are dying at a rate of 500 per...
    6 views0 comments
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