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Should There be a Universal Basic Income?
“In a world of true abundance, you shouldn't have to work to justify your life.” Sam Harris Universal basic income (UBI)—the proposition...
Fred Guerin
Jun 3, 20203 min read
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The Dehumanizing Cult of Behaviourism
If you really want to talk 'cult' then you need go no further than the pseudo-science of behaviourism. The latter theory has had a...
Fred Guerin
May 31, 20203 min read
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The Legacy of The Trump Presidency in so Many Tweets
“It can be asserted that the community, too, evolves a super-ego under whose influence cultural development proceeds... The super-ego of...
Fred Guerin
May 25, 20203 min read
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On the Manufactured Face of Facebook
The French-Jewish philosopher Emanuel Levinas said that when human beings are in ‘the living presence of one another’, when they are...
Fred Guerin
May 25, 20203 min read
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Fatalism: The Default Doctrine in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
Our present neoliberal capitalist world leaders counsel us to passively submit to what they say over and over is ‘the best of all...
Fred Guerin
May 25, 20205 min read
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On the Paradox of Consumption In an Age of Climate Warming
The Wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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On Animal Welfare and Animal Rights
"Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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Hannah Arendt
"The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces....
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20201 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20204 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20207 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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The Afghanistan Papers
After three years of legal battles, The Washington Post finally forced the release of what is now being called 'The Afghanistan...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min read
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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...
Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20200 min read
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