Fred Guerin
The Mueller Report: A Preliminary Expectoration
“The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20192 min read
When Apologies Become Apologist.
January 22/19 A few days ago after Buzzfeed footage of white teens taunting a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips on the steps of...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20192 min read
On Trump's 2nd State of the Union Address
I give credit to anyone out there who had the stomach to watch Donald Trump's second State of the Union address. I don't refer here to...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20192 min read
On Resistance to and Denial of the Science of Climate Change
"Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this this odd...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20193 min read
On Lying and Politics
In the medical drama House, the main character played by Hugh Laurie got to the truth of a given case in Sherlock Holmes-like fashion by...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20193 min read
Is A 'Green' Capitalism Possible?
I have my doubts about whether eco-capitalism or environmental capitalism is possible or even desirable. An authentically green approach...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20194 min read
Why The Assange Indictment Criminalizes Journalism
Here’s the key section of the Assange indictment: “On or about March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20193 min read
What is the Legacy of Neoliberalism?
If any nation has strong unions, democratic politics, excellent education and healthy and combative social movements, the local economic...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201910 min read
Down the Imperial Memory Hole With Venezuela
In George Orwell’s 1984, the dictatorship of Oceania controlled perceptions by continuous propaganda broadcast through the “telescreen”...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20192 min read
Viewpoint: Trans Mountain and meaningful dialogue
An essential feature of meaningful dialogue is the obligation to listen attentively to the words of the other. One listens closely to the...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201912 min read
On News, Fake News and Donald Trump
Allow me to begin by making a straightforward distinction between the more conventional publication of fake news and Donald Trump’s...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20192 min read
Viewpoint: Divide and conquer tactic
There is nothing more contemptible than a government that goes out of its way to appease a corporate hustler. Of course, none of this is...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201919 min read
Obama’s ‘More Perfect Union’ and Trump’s Dystopian Nightmare: on Political Consciousness, Rhetoric a
Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller’. — George Orwell, 1984 Listening to Trump’s...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201910 min read
The Magical Invisibility Cloak Utilitarianism Wears in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism
In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20196 min read
Beyond the Bern: How Progressive Movements Leap Ahead of Electoral Politics
Following Hillary Clinton’s primary victories this Tuesday in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri, some new questions...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20198 min read
The Canadian Ministry of “Truth”: 'Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is'
One of the frightening aspects of ideology is how easy its governing principles can be obscured behind tautologies and reality-denying...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20198 min read
The Charitable Society or 'How to Avoid the Poor and Perpetuate the Wealth Gap'
One of the most potent, propagandistic memes advanced by the corporate well-to-do in the United States today has been the projection of...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201918 min read
The Compelling Conclusion About Capitalism That Piketty Resists
The idea of capitalism as an expression of economic freedom that also secures moral and political freedom of thought, or the notion that...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20195 min read
On Edward Snowden: Whistleblowing as the Highest Form of Civic and Political Engagement
What would it be like to live in a world where dissent was no longer permissible? We appropriately associate the right to dissent with...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201918 min read
Bureaucracy, Autocracy and Neoliberal Canada
We must not only intervene, resist and oppose neoliberal governments and corporate capitalist hegemony; we must finally put an end to...
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