Politics: Latest articles
The latest articles for this subsite.
- Asset-stripping the US
- The Trump administration is overseeing a massive degradation of government services and loss of intrinsic value. Seem familiar?
- Copilot on inflation
- It seems that central banks are being given a lot of responsibility for controlling inflation, but with a very biased measure of it.
- YouTube – a creative wasteland
- YouTube is very popular, but it seems to be filled with much dubious content.
- The right to bear arms
- The United States has a distinct aversion to limits on their citizens' ability to bear arms, yet on the international stage, they want some nations to be restricted from having nuclear weapons.
- The Voice referendum
- First Nations peoples have suffered severely debilitating health and economic outcomes as a result of over 200 years of suppression resulting from colonisation.
- Shit and shit-lite parties
- It seems that politics in the English-speaking world has settled on the two-party system.
- Right-wing and centrist are misanthropy
- In a modern democracy supposedly geared towards benefitting its citizens, why do so-called right-wing parties still exist, or even centrist ones?
- Conservatism
- Conservatism is the latest term for what is essentially the ideology that the rich and powerful have been following ruthlessly for millennia.
- Pyramid belief schemes
- We have heard about financial pyramid schemes where they only work while everyone believes in them, collapsing otherwise. However, a lot of what we take for granted has exactly the same fragile basis.
- Psychopaths for Jesus
- Some modern forms of Christianity seem to have no resemblance to its tenets, but are more a political movement supporting neoliberalism and even the destruction of democracy.