19 years ago, author and activist Naomi Klein turned the mirror on the ugly, sadistic face of our world’s economic system by coining the brilliant term Disaster Capitalism: what happens when industrialists with deep pockets and politicians with zero morals come together to engineer, create, and then exploit, large scale crises that the 1% can monetize. … Continue reading The Death Commodity: War Capitalism in the Age of AI
The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society. It is obvious that society isn’t working, unless our intention was never to build a society, but another version of a jungle. Because it seems that our societies will always give psychopaths the benefit … Continue reading Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win
The minute a human becomes a soldier, they become a fast-moving consumer good in the war sausage factory: entering the factory as a life form with an identity and soul, and processed into an anonymous object that is hurled against other anonymous objects. War is the ultimate dehumanization. I learned this first hand when I … Continue reading It Is Never a War. It Is Always a Business
As tens of millions of Americans begin to fall below the poverty line, their leader plans to annex Gaza, Canada, Greenland, and Mars. This has all the signs of late-stage Empire tantrums: the economic desperation becomes so immense that the only way for the Empire to continue, and distract its impoverished citizens, is to annex … Continue reading Empire vs. People and Planet
104 years ago my grandparents were refugees. They were civilians fleeing their lush, beautiful ancient homeland on the Black Sea, following a treacherous path on foot through Asia Minor and into the safety of Greece. They were among the lucky ones narrowly escaping the Turkish army who was on their heels, and facing a new … Continue reading We Are All Refugees
George Tsakraklides 