PinnedSKULL-THUGGERY DELUXE: Trump as Violence Personified“Violence is an expression of impotence… Power [defined as the capacity to work in concert for a public purpose] and violence are…Jun 10, 202432Jun 10, 202432
PinnedAUTOMACENE RISING: The Perilous Political Economy of Artificial IntelligencePeople worry that computers will get too smart and will take over the world. But the real problem is that they are too stupid and they’ve…Oct 18, 202019Oct 18, 202019
PinnedA ECONOMY BUILT ON SAND: Silicon Valley is a Mixed Blessing at BestI am worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end. ____ David BodanisNov 9, 202013Nov 9, 202013
PinnedTHE LANDLORD’S GAME: The Grand Dispossession of AmericaHow can a man be said to have a country when he has not a right to a square inch of it. ___ Henry GeorgeAug 24, 20209Aug 24, 20209
PinnedSLOUCHING TOWARD UNTOPIAThe main way we are fooled is by being convinced that there is some perfect society that awaits us if we follow all the rules — a utopia…Feb 23, 202320Feb 23, 202320
THE “BUSINESS PLOT” WORKED THIS TIME: The Trump/Musk Regime Change as the Culmination of a Century…“Fascism was [is] a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place”. Ignazio SiloneMar 534Mar 534
BYE BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE: DOGE, AI, and the End of Sovereignty“It is like a weed, if you don’t remove the roots, it will grow back”. Elon MuskFeb 1722Feb 1722
DIVERTING DYSTOPIA: Slivers of Hope in the Shadow of Trump“Fascism is the counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place”. Ignazio SiloneJan 1326Jan 1326
PREDATORY PLUTOCRATS & THEIR PUGNACIOUSLY PILLAGING PATRONS PREVAIL“We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy”. Ralph NaderDec 22, 202414Dec 22, 202414
AMERICAN SYSTEM FAILURE?“Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word”. Barbara AmielDec 7, 202420Dec 7, 202420