Fred GuerinMar 313 minOn America, Russia and Pre-Emptive WarAt the end of the day, we should understand that it was the US who provided the quasi-legal justification for Russia's present military...
Fred GuerinFeb 15 minAnti-Vaxxers, Anti-Maskers and the Trucker 'Freedom' ConvoyYesterday, I wrote on Facebook about anti-vaxx and free speech. Today I want to say something about the anti-vaxx movement and the recent...
Fred GuerinJan 56 minOn the Principle of Reciprocity in Foreign RelationsAt least one measure of how propagandized we have all become in North America is our incapacity to imagine the world from the perspective...
Fred GuerinNov 3, 20214 minOn 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...
Fred GuerinOct 1, 20214 minOn Genocide at Home and AwayWhile researching the topic of genocide, I came across a statistic that rather stunned me: it has been estimated by the Political...
Fred GuerinSep 27, 20214 minCOVID-19: Aerosol vs Droplet TransmissionI was fairly certain a year ago that the COVID virus was transmitted through aerosols and not through droplets or touch. An aerosol is a...
Fred GuerinSep 27, 20213 minPsychiatry as PseudoscienceOkay...I am going to say it: Psychiatry is a pseudo-science and has been from day one. Psychiatric diagnoses of so-called mental...
Fred GuerinSep 25, 20215 minWhat 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...
Fred GuerinSep 9, 20215 minOn the Ethics and Politics of Vaccine PassportsNext Monday (September 13) people in BC will need proof of vaccination if they want to access some events, services and businesses. The...
Fred GuerinJul 24, 20214 minAvi Lewis, Radical Change and Party PoliticsWhen Avi Lewis decided to move to electoral politics and bring the latter into dialogue with progressive ecological movements I cheered...
Fred GuerinJun 26, 20211 minThere is Nothing 'Theoretical' About Critical Race TheoryWhen scientists use the word ‘theory’ they are usually referring to something abstract or hypothetical, yet to be fully verified by...
Fred GuerinJun 17, 20212 minOn Possible and Sustainable FuturesI’m neither pessimistic nor fatalistic by nature. That we should endeavor to soberly assess the way we have raised the planets...
Fred GuerinJun 17, 20212 minThe 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...
Fred GuerinJun 4, 20213 minAvi Lewis: The 'Leap' from Movements Into Party PoliticsThere is a necessary and potentially productive tension between progressive movements and political parties. When they lack leadership or...
Fred GuerinMay 29, 20213 minIsrael is Losing The Propaganda WarIf there is one thing that has become abundantly clear over the course of 54 years of occupation, war crimes and apartheid in the...
Fred GuerinMay 28, 20213 minOn 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,...
Fred GuerinMay 23, 20216 minThe Politics of Philosophy The German-American Harvard political philosopher Leo Strauss once said that “philosophy is the attempt to replace opinion by knowledge,...
Fred GuerinMay 10, 20214 minThe 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...
Fred GuerinMay 7, 20213 minChina 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...
Fred GuerinMay 6, 20213 minColombia: Mass Protest and Police ViolenceYet 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...