We may just be the last of our kind. Yesterday I met an 83 year old man who had visited over a hundred countries, worked with NGOs around the world and witnessed several revolutions. His countenance was wrinkled, yet jovial, and he was pounding down a beer like a hardy…

China’s economy sputters as world braces for global recession. After two years of global lockdowns, with millions of people out of work and incessant, sporadic business closures, it should come as no surprise that economies around the world have begun to show signs of serious distress. By any estimation, it…

Western expats gone rogue….. Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permanent residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties. …

Our failure to grasp the extent of this crisis will be our downfall. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. For those of you unfamiliar with the work of Dylan Thomas…

It’s time the Catholic Church answers for its crimes. Reading today about Pope Francis’ historic tour of Canada to apologize to the indigenous populace who suffered at the hands of the Catholic institution, something inside me snapped. As an Irish native, whose country was essentially conquered, pillaged and raped by…

We are all peonage-slaves of a bloated, out of control banking system — In a debt-based economy, who do you think are the masters? Who do you think is running this (shit)show we call “neoliberal capitalism”? Convincing us all to deregulate the financial sector was the greatest trick the devil ever played. Leave them to their own devices they said, be fine they…

Why the 21st Century is so damn stressful and nerve-wracking. In an age of rampant contradictions — when our basic needs go unmet as we are saturated with an overabundance of all that tech bulls**t we don’t need — there seems (to me) to be several fundamental levels to our…

What this popular series reveals about our hopes, fears, and dreams…. ****NO SPOILERS**** The Netflix series Stranger Things took the world by storm in 2016 and is still causing waves with its latest fourth season. I must admit, I liked this show immediately. It hit all the right buttons for…

That totally speak for themselves. Over the past few years, the image of the US as a principled, freedom-loving, liberty-totting country has begun to slip around the world. The perception of how America fairs in terms of human rights, economic equality, healthcare has been majorly tarnished in the past decade…