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Monuments of Capitalism
Capitalism is a system where you sell your soul for a heaven — promised by the devil. A promise which never reaches fulfillment, claiming responsibilities for all and glories for some, if you are...
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The Liberal Version of Individualism
The spectrum of political opinion in the U.S. is customarily depicted as that between conservatives and liberals. In most people’s minds those ends of the spectrum are at least roughly equivalent to...
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Why Socialism?
Washington D.C. — Underscoring his Administration’s commitment to jumpstarting the nation’s nuclear power industry, President Obama today announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional...
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“Job Creators?”
Several years ago I visited a college class in which a student was doing a presentation about global warming. He used as an illustration of this the long-distance transport of salmon from Russia to the...
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What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding
Editor’s note: Originally published in ProPublica, Feb. 25, 2013. President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence as part of his legislative package on gun...
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The Dark Night of Neoliberalism
For more than twenty centuries humanity has inched forward before sliding back; the great thoughts, ideas and actions of a William Shakespeare, Nicola Tesla or Mark Twain, versus a Pol Pot or a Joseph...
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The Difficult Business of Assessing What’s True
[T]he battle over truth and over perception—what is true and what needs to be taken into account given its objective reality—are central to any attempts at social change. – Globalization and the...
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Misunderstanding Altruism
If the dominant ideas of our times preach that individualism and selfishness are the truest nature of humans, then it only stands to reason that altruism should be derided as non-existent. Quite a few...
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Binge-Drinking Women Do Not Provoke Sexual Assault, Men Do
Binge drinking has been one of the justifications employed by apologists of rape and sexual assault to demonize or blame women, when in fact, to correlate binge drinking with rape generally amounts to...
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Post Suburban Speculation
The grass is green and mowed. The paint is white or beige. The sky is blue or gray. The forest is green or brown. The road is black. Suburbia is normal. That is the message that people who live in such...
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The Age of Transhumanist Politics Has Begun
An Interview with Political Analyst Roland Benedikter Part I The founding of the Transhumanist Party of the United States, the intensifying of the U.S. BRAIN-Initiative and the start of Google’s...
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The Age of Transhumanist Politics – Part II
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a three-part interview. Part I can be found here. An Interview with Political Analyst Roland Benedikter Summary of Part I Technology is emerging as a social...
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The Age of Transhumanist Politics – Part III
Editor’s note: This is the third and final part of a three-part interview. Part I can be found here; Part II, here. An Interview with Political Analyst Roland Benedikter Summary of Parts I &...
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