Book Review | Failing States, Collapsing Systems: Biophysical Triggers of Political Violence

While trying to get to the bottom of the underlying reasons for geopolitical events has always been enough of a challenge, an unfortunate side-effect of the explosion of information that the Internet has provided us with is the even further erosion of the signal-to-noise ratio. The mainstream media can pretty

Melbourne's Donald Trump Protests: Harbinger of the Rise of Pauline Hanson?

(photos by Gage Skidmore and Velovotee) Feeling in a bit of a masochistic mood a couple of Saturdays ago I decided to take a stroll over to the Donald Trump protest (which seem to be occurring like clockwork once every two weeks) outside of Melbourne's State Library, the place to

Controlling the Collapse Argument With the Fakery of "Fake News", Or More Like a Case of Plain Old (Unuseful) Idiocy?

As you may have read a couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post published an article entitled "Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say", in which it cited a report by a group calling itself PropOrNot. According to the Post, PropOrNot’s monitoring report.

Having Said Nothing About Smashing the "Glass Floor", it's the Democrats that are Ultimately Responsible for Trump's Win [part 3/3]

All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others (with apologies to George Orwell) (photo by Gage Skidmore) According to a well known actress by the name of Amy Schumer (second cousin to Chuck Schumer, the Democratic apparatchik disliked by some for his alleged ties to Wall

Divide and Distract: If Donald Trump Wins the Election He Loses, But if He Loses the Election He Wins [part 2/3]

Try it and I'll bop you over the head with a metal chair! (photo by Gage Skidmore) For some time now I've been toying with the idea of Donald Trump as future triager-in-chief – instead of "you're fired!", "you're triaged!" I nonetheless couldn't help but think that