Demarais, A. (2024). Backfire: How sanctions reshape the world against U.S. interests. Columbia University Press. Backfire in context Economic sanctions have become Washington’s [...] Read more

Click here to read As the US becomes an authoritarian dictatorship wielding all instruments of fear it possibly can, reports in mainstream news networks have begun flooding in of tourists with valid [...] Read more

Read here Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are [...] Read more

Jeremy Lent: The Web of Meaning Jeremy Lent returns to The Commonwealth Club to discuss the ideas in his new book, which weaves together the latest scientific findings with age-old philosophical [...] Read more

Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for millennia [...] Read more

Click here to access A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want One must know what one wants to be [...] Read more

In The Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010), Pulitzer‑prize‑winning journalist Chris Hedges charts the slow unraveling of the American liberal tradition—the coalition [...] Read more

Indigenous academic Leroy Little Bear compares the foundational base of Blackfoot knowledge to quantum physics to an attentive audience at The Banff Centre as part of the Indigenous Knowledge and [...] Read more

The Self Under Siege - Rick Roderick I. The task of creating a life with the "self under siege" to the degree I have argued may seem impossible. At the very least, it calls for what Baudrillard calls [...] Read more

Biological Experiment [...] Read more