The threat looming over Europe is drug gangs may already be looking to fentanyl to keep their ruthless trade thriving. Article content Vancouver’s Dr. Bill MacEwan, who has for decades worked with people who are addicted and police officers, says fentanyl basically came to B.C. in 2...
I had always made the unquestioned assumption that financial markets were simply one face of the overall market economy. It was Bill Janeway who first brought the distinction between financial markets and the real market of goods and services to my attention. In his bookDoing Capitalis...
As the Soviet Union fell, Russia embraced capitalism. But Russia's definition of a "free market" doesn't exactly align with other parts of the globe. Joseph Stalin Grew Up With Religion On a personal level, Stalin was well-acquainted with the church. As a young man in his native Georgia...
Slowly but surely, the previous natural diversity is supplanted with a genetically modified monoculture. Some people sound an alarm, but they are told not to worry because it's all for the common good. The bees are still thriving and the field is still blooming, except that now it's ...
I could talk for AGES about how medicine and capitalism don’t mix (I’m really starting to think that they shouldn’t!) … but this is perhaps not the forum for that discussion. Reply Cory January 25, 2011 at 6:33 pm ah peter, there are plenty of places where medicine and c...
The dominant design of Era 3post-modern global capitalismpeaked in the 1990’s and is increasingly showing its age. The wealthiest 10% in the Era 3 system are now mainly focused on accumulating and conserving their capital, at the cost of decreasing the system’s resilience to disruption...
In the fall of 2011, the Occupy movement dissolved, as desperate millennials realized their forceful shouts about being the 99 percent would go unheard, powerless against the vulturous monsters of late-stage capitalism. But then Skyrim came, and suddenly we knew what it felt like to have our ...
The book has again reminded me of these dangers, and the source for much of the discussion on surveillance capitalism in the last chapter, Shoshanna Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, will probably be my next...
Not exactly. Wearables are still finding their groove with consumers, but some level of consolidation seems like a fairly reasonable bet in the months ahead. With the biggest names in consumer electronics currently battling it out in earnest, the harsh realities of capitalism mean that some o...
Laura said that she and her artist-mentor discussed a conspiracy theory in which Providence’s creative city strategy was designed to secure the political power of those who profit unevenly from creative capitalism. Here is how she described this theory: “The government wants us all to be ...