When Avi Lewis decided to move to electoral politics and bring the latter into dialogue with progressive ecological movements I cheered...

When scientists use the word ‘theory’ they are usually referring to something abstract or hypothetical, yet to be fully verified by...

I’m neither pessimistic nor fatalistic by nature. That we should endeavor to soberly assess the way we have raised the planets...

You have, no doubt, all heard the expression 'planned obsolescence': in other words, the planning or designing of a product that has only...

There is a necessary and potentially productive tension between progressive movements and political parties. When they lack leadership or...

If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear over the course of 54 years of occupation, war crimes and apartheid in the...

There is a common misconception that capitalism without neoliberalism would be fine. But it is important to recognize that capitalism,...

The German-American Harvard political philosopher Leo Strauss once said that “philosophy is the attempt to replace opinion by knowledge,...

Back in the early 80's as a young philosophy student, I read an article by the ecologist/ biologist Garrett Hardin entitledThe Tragedy of...

“The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil…” George Orwell 1984 When space debris from a Chinese rocket is predicted to...

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...

Whoever is left on the planet that thinks Bill Gates is a great philanthropist concerned with human health and well-being through his...

“You know, they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist, And I say, ‘Really? We’re not supposed to use...

Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman (Better Call Saul) is the exemplar of the shyster lawyer—a knavish pettifogger and con man who is happiest...

I know that many socialists and Marxists take it on faith that human beings are inherently benevolent and compassionate, and that...

The moment that wise or edifying teachings arrived at through the crucible of individual thinking experience are set down into doctrine,...

It was a good day...a day of righteous vindication, relief after a tense three-week trial, and a moment of much needed closure. Police...

Back in 1972 Ralph Nader defined whistleblowing as “an act of a man or a woman who, believing in the public interest overrides the...

No, I’m not talking about nukes or ballistic missiles. What I’m talking about is yet another American mass shooting, another outcry of...

The April 2021 federal NDP convention has come and gone. There were a number of progressive resolutions put forward and passed—reflecting...