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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...
Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20214 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Sep 27, 20214 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Sep 27, 20213 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Sep 25, 20215 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Sep 9, 20215 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Jul 24, 20214 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Jun 26, 20211 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Jun 16, 20212 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Jun 16, 20212 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
Jun 3, 20213 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 29, 20213 min read
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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,...
Fred Guerin
May 28, 20213 min read
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The Politics of Philosophy
The German-American Harvard political philosopher Leo Strauss once said that “philosophy is the attempt to replace opinion by knowledge,...
Fred Guerin
May 22, 20216 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 10, 20214 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 7, 20213 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 6, 20213 min read
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COVID-19 Big Pharma & TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property)
Whoever is left on the planet that thinks Bill Gates is a great philanthropist concerned with human health and well-being through his...
Fred Guerin
May 5, 20213 min read
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Globalism, Nationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism
“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...
Fred Guerin
Apr 29, 20214 min read
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The Loveable Saul Goodman
Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman (Better Call Saul) is the exemplar of the shyster lawyer—a knavish pettifogger and con man who is happiest...
Fred Guerin
Apr 29, 20214 min read
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We Are What we Make of Ourselves
I know that many socialists and Marxists take it on faith that human beings are inherently benevolent and compassionate, and that...
Fred Guerin
Apr 24, 20212 min read
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