North America

It’s recently stopped snowing; it’s the most beautiful time in the city when the blanket is still pristine and we pedestrians follow each other’s footsteps. Thus, wrapped in the icy whiteness, we cross the neighborhood park to reach the subway…

“Freeloader.”  A colleague called me that after discovering that my cousins in Los Angeles fed me for a year, free of charge.  But there is more.  This new immigrant also got to tag along with them to Las Vegas for…

The Damsel In Distress  It’s remarkable, the way all of the corporate, ie: “mainstream” news outlets are immediately lining up their narratives to push for/support this potential war with Venezuela – all leading off the other day with “The risky…

Late on December 9, 2025, a message from our campaign, Yves Engler for NDP leader ( NDP is the New Democratic Party in Canada) lands in my mailbox : “NDP blocks my candidacy”. There is also an article by Yves,…

Only when we truly understand what it means to be human will we resolve our conflicts and transform our relationship with ourselves, with one another, and with our so-called “natural” environment. To be human is to have the right to…

The Choice Between Two Systems of Governance Considering the unsteady quality of most corporate, ie: “mainstream” journalism these days, many people in the Collective West, in the US, Australia, Canada and much of Europe, aren’t aware of the immense changes…

Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster. The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and…

It hasn’t vanished — it has simply evolved, adapted, and embedded itself into every corner of modern life. When former U.S. President Trump—the Discriminator-in-Chief—goes into a frenzy about Somali immigrants and calls them “garbage,” many treat it as a personal…

Lately I’ve been on shows with other guests who’ve expressed outrage and amazement that the U.S. government would blow up people on boats, exclaiming that they never could have imagined such a thing until this moment. A U.S. senator has…

In a conversation with Yannis Varoufakis in 2014, disgraced Jeffrey Epstein associate and former president of Harvard University Larry Summers described the political landscape as consisting of “insiders” and “outsiders.” He explained that outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their…