[Social] The Polarization Trap by Charles Eisenstein Posted June 22, ,2019 Over the past decade I’ve watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split...

[Social] Techofeudalism Ascending by Steven Yates Posted June 21, 2019 Technofeudalism is the best term for a kind of political economy that has been coming together very gradually for much of the past century, but accelerating in recent decades: it is technologically...

[Social] The Euro-Atlantic Populist Wave By Andrew Spannaus Posted June 14, 2019 In 2016, the world began to change, with the Brexit referendum in the U.K. and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. In both cases, an insurrection of “regular people” against...

[Social] Note from USA: The A to Z of the American Police State By John W Whitehead Posted June 4, 2019 We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the...

[Social] Power Of Orwellian State Has Become Almost Irreversible by Bruce Wilds Posted June 2, 2019 The insurmountable problem posed by the growing power of Orwellian States and the reason we should all be afraid is that once totalitarianism takes hold it is almost...

[Social] None of Your Business - The rise of surveillance capitalism By Katie Fitzpatrick Posted June 1, 2019 Before they started their successful wildcat strike last year, West Virginia teachers railed against the introduction of a workplace wellness program called...