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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20202 min read
Blood Quantum
I've never been much of a fan of zombie movies with the exception of George Romero's iconic Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
Utility versus Wisdom
The BC government released ethical guidelines on deciding who should get treatment if resources are stretched during a pandemic. Included...
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
We Don't Get Fooled Again. No! No!" [Pete Townshend, The Who]
The youth, the disenfranchised and the working people of the world were looking for radical change. They wanted universal healthcare....
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20200 min read
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Fred Guerin
May 24, 20203 min read
Žižek v Peterson
It happened a year ago and I put it on a list of things I wanted to watch so I'm just now getting to it today. Jordan Peterson v Slavoj...
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Fred Guerin
Aug 13, 20198 min read
We Must End Neoliberalism, or Neoliberalism Will End Us
In his seminal political essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” the dissident playwright and philosopher Vaclav Havel argued that becoming...
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Fred Guerin
Aug 13, 20194 min read
Ijeoma Oluo, Rachel Dolezal and White Privilege
Over the years working in cases of harassment and discrimination in the workplace I have tried to imagine what it might be like to be...
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Fred Guerin
Aug 13, 20193 min read
Putin Protests
It's been a long time coming but it seems fairly clear at this point that many Russians (at least 60,000 in Moscow according to the...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 23, 20194 min read
On the 'Necessity' of Neoliberalism
Recently, I wrote a piece that claimed the most revealing question was not how and why neoliberal capitalism failed as a system of...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 21, 20192 min read
Our Unhappy Southern Neighbour
I sometimes wonder what Canada would have been like if instead of the US our southern neighbours would have been Finland, Norway, Denmark...
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Fred Guerin
Jul 15, 20193 min read
Get Ready: It's 'Lesser of Two Evils' Time
In very short order you will begin to hear from the cowering, servile political pundit class all about the 'lesser of two evils'...
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