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A metaphysical exercise with an artificial intelligence SEED QUESTIONS: THE ORIGIN OF THE DIALOGUE This essay was born from a series of questions I asked my artificial intelligence. They weren’t complex questions. There was no context, no theory, no framework.…

A new report by the global peace group World BEYOND War finds that military bases used by foreign militaries are growing in number, as are public protests and advocacy against those bases. Of 1,247 foreign military bases in the world,…

One of the defining elements of New Humanism is its grounding in human experience rather than belief. Silo placed inner experience at the core of this worldview. He urged individuals to discover meaning through reflection, meditation, and self-transformation. This perspective…

The decision by Donald Trump’s administration to sanction Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is not only an unprecedented political reprisal against an international official. It is also a direct attempt to delegitimize a…

Fragmentary journal of a radical journalist in the posthuman era I am not interested in debating whether machines can think. What matters to me is examining what kind of thinking emerges when a human mind enters into a creative, ethical,…

Whenever you get to thinking that people lack compassion and generally can’t be trusted with the planet, I recommend you re-read this article. By Mike Ferner On May 22, 2025, several members of Veterans For Peace, along with some allies,…

Elon Musk’s recent announcement to create a new political party in the United States has sent shockwaves through the political establishment. In a country dominated by a deeply entrenched two-party system, many political analysts quickly dismissed the idea as unrealistic,…

Following the Money When we think of empires throughout history we think of examples like the Roman empire, the British empire, the American empire, etc. In other words, we automatically conflate the idea of empire with a particular location on…

US Senator Tom Cotton recently published a book titled Seven Things You Can’t Say About China. I decided to put myself through the aggravated torture of reading it, just to see what he had to say, and now mourn hours…

The world of literature has turned purple, not knowing which color, blue or red, fits the current dilemma that’s causing serious students of the art to tear their hair out. The age of social media has opened the door to…