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 (Recall that—by Trump’s own public admission—as late as Election Day he did not believe he would win the presidency of the United States.  Trump thought that—on November 9, 2016—he’d return to being a non-politician private citizen free to do big international business deals.  So all of Trump’s historically pro-Russia foreignContinue Reading

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 There is something darkly comedic about Jeff Bezos recent presentation of his ideas for a gargantuan space station. He is taking a cue from Elon Musk’s penchant for making media savy tech project presentations that garner a lot of positive PR primarily.  Although Bezos does not state it directly hisContinue Reading

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(Dan Robbins did something quite remarkable and radical: he demonstrated that it is not necessary for any given artist to create something unique or deeply original in order to be an artist. Thus, Robbins may legitimately be compared to Marcel Duchamp, whose readymades demonstrated that, within the art world itself,Continue Reading

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 What happens when a town tries to replace public transit with Uber? In 2017, the Toronto exurb of Innisfil, Ontario, took a chance on subsidizing rides instead of running a traditional bus service, offering riders a flat fare or discounts through the ride-hailing app. The plan worked, perhaps a littleContinue Reading

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Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He is 63. ‘The nurse notedContinue Reading

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Pamela Anderson on the arrest of Julian Assange yesterday, “How could you Equador? (Because he exposed you.) How could UK? Of course–you are America’s bitch and you need a diversion from your idiotic Brexit bullshit.” J.A. surely knew this day was coming, it was not a question of if butContinue Reading

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“In Canada, the evidence is that increasingly a larger fraction of income to corporations is related to excessive profits. Lower tax rates encourage firms to engage in more excessive profit seeking. You have greater incentives to create more monopoly power, to lobby (the government), because you get to keep aContinue Reading

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this is a chilling documentary on American governmental and corporate inaction in response to an ongoing human and enviornmental catastrophe in the city of St. Louis. press coverage: https://www.atomichomefront.film/news/recent/ trailer: https://www.atomichomefront.film/clips/Continue Reading