World

How stories got whitewashed out of philosophy

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

The intro to the intro of a book

A note from a dead future

A reading list of how I deprogrammed it myself

The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods

It’s just a little bit of history repeating

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

How America’s military actually sucks

My experience in a visa line

COVID forever, COVID all the time

‘Food insecurity’ is just a fancy word for famine

My country has (involuntarily) stopped importing fossil fuels

GDP is a dead end. We’ve got to go back and start over

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

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

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

The government got violent and got violence in return

And 7 common-sense alternatives for Sri Lanka.

The crypto hawala system

Sri Lanka needs to make real changes to the real economy

And not knowing where it leads

Life under wave after wave of disaster

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

Nobody can depend on fossil fuels anymore

All the bad news in the world is eventually coming for you

If you’re wondering what shortages and instability are like, lemme tell you

We have 13 hour powercuts now, and people are enraged

Slowly, then all at once

What do you think climate collapse means?

These idiots are getting us all killed

How American poverty looks to a Sri Lankan

I ain’t gonna study war no more

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

You can only sanction and steal so much

Just don’t be white

We’re just canaries in the capitalist coal mine

Masking, ventilation, and pandemic hygiene are here to stay

We are witnessing a historical atrocity

How white countries dominate the world

It's just a little bit of history repeating.

Siege warfare is still war.

The bed's on fire. There's no going back to sleep

I mean, we won't, but we should

When will Greta go guerrilla?

The delightful lack of white people in Apple's TV show

Don't worry about capitalism collapsing, just look at these dumb darkies!

How China grew faster and longer than any country in human history

War is a farce that gives them meaning.