Rethinking the moats and mountains
What very interesting times we live in. On the one hand, we are about to make batteries out of sodium instead of lithium, and grow bones from sheep’s wool instead of punishing anyone with weakening bones with the worst pharmaceuticals in existence. On the other hand, Elon. On May 15 2026, Jose Luis Bautista, [ ]
I keep hearing stock market and recession warnings invoking comparisons of the current oil crisis with the 1970s. There is a very key difference between today s stock market and the 70s, illustrated by the graph below which was making the rounds of financial forums in April. The graph shows the S P versus the consumer sentiment [ ]
Step 7 of How to Dismantle a Dictatorship was Cultivate external allies. In that chapter, I explained how particularly important this was for the US. I wrote: “Russia is an empire based on its control of more than one ninth of the land in the world. China is an empire because it controls more than [ ]
This is the cover for the new book that I started writing last fall. It is not part of either series I am working on right now, but it is an important book in its own right, and I felt it needed to be published sooner, so I let it cut in line. There will [ ]
Today, the US and Israel murdered over a hundred little girls in an elementary school. Many politicians said they did it “for the Iranian people.” Many of them want to be hailed as global heroes for it. Many of them think they are already being hailed as heroes by the people around the world celebrating [ ]
By now, you have probably all heard of the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge. I have heard a lot about it because I have a lot of cousins who live there and I have been there many times. It is a beautiful little town. A lot of Canada’s small towns have chronic violence that runs in [ ]
This article is posted here in full from the Binding Chaos community. Join now to read all the articles in full as soon as they come out! There has been a lot of talk about a general strike in the US since Trump was ‘elected’, but especially in the last month. This conversation has mostly [ ]
There is so much to say this month, it’s hard to choose a topic. It feels like a giant dam is finally breaking and so many things I have worked on for years, even decades, are now finally reaching a critical mass. I’m seeing such a mixture of hope, relief, and also anxiety in case [ ]
This is a post to express my solidarity and sympathy to all the women in the world who are going through the hell of regressive misogyny right now. I have been wanting to sum up what has been going on but there is too much and I am trying to get the next book out [ ]
That was an interesting December, and November, watching promotions try to relate consumerist habits to a world on the brink of something far more important. It is frustrating that The Power Economy is so far off from publication because I would have liked to work on it this last month. The current state of the [ ]