Procrastination

We’ve all been there before, right? “I’ll do it tomorrow”… “No, of course it won’t leave a stain…” “You won’t get pregnant! besides they make my…” Yes, procrastination – it’s a devil. It can wreak havoc on your life like nothing else. We set a goal in motion and then at a certain point, it [...]

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Busted: The Fall in Profits and the Rise of Finance – Part I

  Okay, it’s time to get all scholarly. I know, I know, yawn? right? But sometimes it’s important to see the bigger picture – even when that picture is inflated to the point of conjecture – in order to get your bearings. So, let’s begin. Why are we… Hey! You! Yeah, at the back – [...]

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Trick or Treat: Eri Yamamoto Trio – Magnolia

Well, Halloween’s coming up – and everyone likes Halloween, right?….. right? Well, I do, anyway. You’re never too old to dress-up, in my book. And most of us, as adults – or, more precisely, the imitation thereof – have found that we can replace sweeties with other orally-consumed yummies – like alcohol! A combination of [...]

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Néstor Kirchner R.I.P

Ex-president of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner passed away two days ago – dying from heart failure at the regrettable age of sixty. Behind him he leaves a country with a booming economy – and a  guaranteed historical legacy. After years of military dictatorship combined with neo-liberal economic policy – you know, the ‘Latin Cocktail’, a favorite [...]

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The Slow Death of the Giganto Super-Brain

A post by James Kwak today got me thinking – as it so often does.  Now that it looks like Ireland is swimming into the jaws of the IMF-style creature that the EU – under the guise of ESFS – is becoming, what’s going to happen to our beloved education system? You know how the [...]

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In God We… Don’t Really Trust That Much, But Kind Of Hope That He’ll Do The Right Thing…

There’s something tragic about a great power in decline. Many on the left today take it for granted that America should serve as their political punch bag. But the US was once a landmass upon which great political dreams were projected. A new land – a wealthy and prosperous land, with a solid democratic, anti-imperialist [...]

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Obama’s Change: Coming Soon to a Financial Market Near You

The rest of the world is finally beginning to cop on. To what? To President Barack Obama being – well – either incompetent or a big pseudo-populist fraud. In the US this has been known for some time – indeed, only those who seem to have tied themselves to the Democrats as if with a [...]

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Economic Poetry: Change Landed

No one else would publish it – I wonder why…   Change Landed By Philip Pilkington Open fields and barren grounds and scattered seeds, Upon which humankind’s memory feeds. A meeting place for some supposed wants and needs, Here a history of man finds voice and reads.   Ploughs of chaos tear through soil with [...]

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In the Long Dark Shadow of Gabriele D’Annunzio

Hush. On the edge Of the woods I do not hear Words which you call Human; but I hear Words which are newer Spoken by droplets and leaves Far away. Listen. Rain falls From the scattered clouds. It’s 1919, the Austrian-Hungarian empire has just crumbled following WW1, and the small port-city of Fiume is under [...]

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Civilising the Barbarians by Barbarising the Civilians

If someone says the words ‘Iraq’ and ‘war’ to you what image immediately springs to mind – this one? This one? Maybe, this one? It’s not so surprising that these images caused such shock and outrage – they cut right to the heart of the ideology of US interventionism. Some have called US interventionism imperial. [...]

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