Politics

According to John Mearsheimer, who predicted the war in the first place

They’re both part of the same hypocrisy

Confucius said the most important thing was ‘rectifying names’. What did he mean?

America is repeating the conquest of Western Europe, this time as a farce

It’s just the new ‘white man’s burden’, except gayer, feminized, and even carried out by colored people

White people need to shut the fuck up and sit this century out

‘Minorities’ are getting the 'reigns' just in time to take the blame

Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency

At least it acknowledges that there’s a big problem

Ding dong the Queen is dead

How America obviously yet invisibly rules the world

By over-promising on vaccines and under-delivering, Western elites have imperiled public health for generations

The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods

It’s just a little bit of history repeating

Not planning our economies is just planning to fail

Property is winning.

Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to neoliberalize, and the first to fall

China is only 10% of Sri Lanka debt. Where do you think the rest is from?

The powerful protests of July 9th, 2022

How White Empire is overthrowing itself in 14 ways

My country has (involuntarily) stopped importing fossil fuels

Democrats blame Russians, Republicans blame Mexicans, and they both blame China

Just fine, thank you

There is no free press. It’s very expensive

I didn’t think it possible, but Biden is worse

Toddlers of the world unite

It’s chickens coming home to roost

The movement of caste

Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village

According to a global survey, “the countries considered most democratic by their citizens are China, Vietnam, and Taiwan”

Polls and the polis

Guns and abortion are just tactics, and they work

People don’t have power. Elites do

Electile dysfunction

The government got violent and got violence in return

How economists are the worst

What we should be feeling is grief, and rage

Sri Lanka needs to make real changes to the real economy

Biden vs. Biden

And not knowing where it leads

How the loneliness of capitalism trends towards fascism

Communism if you’re nasty

Sri Lanka needs to build its way out of crisis, not borrow our way into the next one

Too many people are still seduced by the power of Empire. They don't want it to fall, they want to use it for good.

Democracy is just a hammer, and lately it’s been clawing peoples eyes out

Biden has killed more people and just completely given up

Mexico made them do drugs, Russia made them elect Trump, oligarchs made them launder money

Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free

The Ukraine War has brought out the ‘well-intentioned’ clowns