https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/technology/britain-online-safety-law.html As of January 1 there will be no more internet advertising in Great Britain. It has been determined that advertising induces consumerism. An “Online Safety Bill” with such provisions was passed earlier this month. It also stipulates that financial services industry companies will be given a year’s grace period…

This article reflects the reality of the situation: https://mishtalk.com/economics/a-huge-backlash-against-climate-change-and-immigration-madness-has-started/ “ . . . it’s madness because neither the infrastructure nor supply chains are in place for a radical push.” Year-by-year more and more people will recognize the need for a radical transition of our lifeways. They will, correctly, clamor for…

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4215263-biden-faces-pressure-to-counter-trump-on-auto-strike/ Another progressive who has voiced regular support for unions is expected to stand alongside angry workers. Unfortunately for Biden, it’s one of his rivals. Cornel West, who’s running to defeat both Biden and Trump as a Green Party candidate, is heading to Detroit to walk the picket line, The…

The School of Life has its critics. A chief concern is that they can be simplistic in addressing emotional/psychological issues. But a virtue is that they have a realistic perspective about the human condition . . . about our proclivities, our feelings. For example, about marriage. We’re all neurotic to…

Various people, groups, ideologies. Many have a vague sense that something’s been lost. A variety of analyses, interpretations, issues, solutions: Traditionalism, nationalism, communitarianism. Luddism of different sorts. Some will appear reactionary, some progressive, some right-wing, some left-wing, some “neither left nor right” or “off the spectrum.” (It was Stalinism, of…

There was a debate early on. Jefferson led a faction having a vision to go in a direction far different from that of England: Remain pastoral and decentralized. Hamilton led a faction having Great Power aspirations. As the world was entering the historical phase of industrial development it was a…

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/18/quick-thoughts-on-the-uaw-strike/ “ . . . there is nothing golden about a single-earner family. It is great that there are increased opportunities for women so that most are in the labor force.” Here’s a different way of looking at it: The idea was NOT to have both partners in a household…

Fredy Perlman and David Watson were among those who started to go the heart of things fifty years ago. And they wrote with heart … grounded in biocentrism. Samuel Alexander is more pedestrian, but he’s more accessible and he currently shows us the way forward. Kirk Sale says the very…

The telegraph, then telephone. Telephone party lines in neighborhoods, telephones in every house, telephones in every room, radios in every house, radios in every room, televisions in every house, televisions in every room, computers in every university, computers in every business, computers in every house, computers in every room, computers…