Fred Guerin
On Philosophy, Politics and Climate Change
What to do about climate change is not simply a question for activists, scientists, politicians and economists—it’s a question for...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
Ongoing Protests in Chile
Typically mainstream news reporting on the ongoing civil protests throughout Chile claim that the latter were in response to a 30 peso...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min
On Reclaiming the Canadian Commons
What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. (Aristotle, Politics) The word ‘common’ means “together in one”. In...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min
Putin, COVID-19 and Autocracy
As Russia grapples with the Corona virus Russians trust in how Vladimir Putin has handled the crisis is at an all-time low. Despite the...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20201 min
Stephen v. Albert
Here’s the difference between an idiot who happens to be a physicist, and a person of wisdom who happens to be the physicist without whom...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
Consumption is the Root Problem
There is an inescapable logic regarding the relation between consumption, energy and climate warming that it seems we humans would rather...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
Serving Employees and Community the Bezos Way
A few years back Amazon's Jeff Bezos got together with a number of other billion dollar tech CEO's and declared in a signed letter that...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min
Politics and Ethics
In the present world we have gone to great lengths to separate the political from the ethical. The political we say is about acquiring...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20201 min
Hannah Arendt
"The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces....
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20204 min
The U.S and Canada's Corporate Coup of Bolivia
To its eternal shame, the liberal government fully supported, and was likely complicit in the coup in Bolivia. Canada’s Minister of...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min
Operation Condor for a New Century
After wreaking as much havoc as humanly possible in Afganistan and the Middle-East, America is back talking regime change in what remains...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20207 min
A Bit of Canadian Socialist History...
The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada (1969) Waffle Resolution 133 1. Our aim as democratic socialists is to build an...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min
Ecosocialism
It is fairly clear now that mainstream political parties have either been bought off by the power elite or they are just too timid to put...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
The Afghanistan Papers
After three years of legal battles, The Washington Post finally forced the release of what is now being called 'The Afghanistan...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min
On Venezuela and Bigus Dickus Mike Pompeus
America's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is doing everything possible to take Venezuela's Maduro completely out of the picture--not in a...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
The Neoliberal System and Negligent Homicide
The present neoliberal system is not designed to respond to the indigent, the sick, the old and the unemployed. If it actually did...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20204 min
Gambling on Misery and Death
A few months ago I read in a twitter feed that we should hold a lottery on whether Boris Johnson dies of coronavirus. It may be that...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
Insane Clown President*
In the history of humankind there has never been a political leader as 'know-nothing', as clownish, as inarticulate, as...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min
Meetings on the Road to the Climate Warming Apocalypse
Ever wonder why multi-billion dollar oil and gas companies pay little in the way of royalties and are subsidzed by the federal government...
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