The hyper response to Covid-19
– by Karina Reiss and Sucharit Bhakdi – The following excerpt is from Dr. Karina Reiss and Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi’s new book Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures (Chelsea Green…
Alan Watts on myth, culture and paradise regained
Originally published in 1963, The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity is Alan Watts’s forgotten book on world mythology – myths of light and darkness, good and evil,…
From living in public to losing in private
– by Geoff Olson – Software license agreements – who reads ‘em anymore? These days, it seems almost perversely old-school to not immediately click “I accept”. On the rare occasions…
A stiff sentence: redacting Julian Assange from the record
– by Geoff Olson – I was recently commissioned to write an article on arts and technology for a Canadian literary journal. It ballooned into a 5,000 word piece…
The courage to care
– by Duane and Catherine O’Kane – We aren’t avoiding each other because of the problems. We have problems because we are avoiding each other. You are standing alone in…
Word(s) of the Year: connecting urgent ecojustice dots
– by Bruce Mason – William Blake (1757-1827) urged us “to see a world in a grain of sand”, but the visionary poet didn’t foresee the ubiquity of micro-plastics on…
Leela Gilday’s timely North Star Calling
MUSIC RISING by Bruce Mason The northern sky wheels around Polaris, the star humans have relied on to sail seas, cross deserts, escape slavery. And Leela Gilday’s remarkable fifth album,…
Big Telecom fighting lower Internet fees
INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Marie Aspiazu Back in August, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) significantly lowered the fees small Internet providers were required to pay Big Telecom for access…
Let’s all be less stupid. OK?
– by Bruce Mason – If anyone survives the current human-caused mass extinction – the sixth since the dawn of time – they’ll look back on our epoch as the…
It’s your funeral
Thomas P. J. Crean certainly has an end-of-life story to tell. In November 2019, he published It’s Your Funeral: How Grieving Families Are Being Exploited, and How We Can Stop…