According to one weary world traveler. After years wandering through this world, soaking up knowledge, culture and custom, researching to the best of my ability and observing all that crosses my path, here are five truths I have come to see as poignant as they are inalienable. Workers are Bottom Feeders It doesn’t do…

Billionaires blatantly flaunt the power of the plutocracy in the Swiss Alps. Davos Man is once again celebrated, lauded and fawned over by the mainstream media as members of the now infamous World Economic Forum (WEF) gathered in the luxurious Swiss town of Davos to plot and plan their next…

How many bodies have to pile up before the US government acts? Shock, dismay and outrage rocked the small town of Newport News, Virginia recently when a child who attended Richneck Elementary School suddenly shot his teacher, 25 year old Abby Zwerner, with a 9mm handgun stolen from his mother. …

Solutions Series 1: Time for Direct Democracy ? Governments all over the globe today are reneging on the social contract, shirking their responsibilities towards the people they are principally mandated to serve, and kowtowing to billionaire corporations in order to enrich themselves and their cronies. Virtue-signaling, while spewing meaningless slogans…

A devastating trend for free speech, freedom of information and user privacy. In the guise of protecting children, removing apparent dis/misinformation and making the internet “safe” for all the little snowflakes afraid of their own shadow, governments around the world have begun to show signs of resorting to more authoritarian…

But will the West listen? ‘Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war,’ Mr Putin said. ‘We will strive for an end to this, and the sooner the better, of course.’ A key, though not altogether surprising, change of…

One of the most striking, and simultaneously troubling, trends of the past ten years or so is the rapid deterioration of living standards across the globe in some of the world’s most famous metropolises. For a vast plethora of reasons (including, but not limited to climate change), cities millions used…

The Fallout of Harry and Meghans’ Embarrassing Charade. Just as Britons begin to emerge on the other side of one of the harshest winters in the nation’s memory, with staggering levels of inflation, an energy crisis, skyrocketing rates of child hunger and widespread poverty, it has become apparent that the…

A stomach-churning reminder of our perilous precarity under capitalism. ****SPOILERS**** So abundantly clear it is these days that the capitalist jig is up that movies which elude to this economic paradigm’s gross inequities and failings are on the verge of becoming overdone. Time and again over the past couple of…