Canada: ‘Woke’ ideology is on its way out

In Canada, several major corporations, including Walmart, Starbucks and Ford Motor Company, have moved away from diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) practices in 2024. Walmart announced sweeping changes to its DEI policies, including erasing DEI-related terminology, ending DEI training programmes and shifting away from prioritising under-represented groups in hiring practices.

Silicon Valley seeks to run the world using technocracy

Technocracy, a system of scientific management of society, is rising to power, with Silicon Valley as its hub and Big Tech as its driving force. Key figures such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are prominent technocrats who are shaping the world according to their vision. The goal

Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone.

Pfizer used a ghostwriter to explain away the “hot lots,” the deadly batches of covid vaccines

A Danish group published a statistical analysis in 2023 showing disproportionate adverse events for early Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, which was met with criticism from Anders Hviid, a Professor of epidemiology, and later by Borja Somovilla del Saz, a 23-year-old computer science student. Somovilla del Saz’s criticism was the most prominent

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

This adapted excerpt is from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson (2025, MIT Press). It is reproduced with permission from MIT Press. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media

Decisions, Decisions

In my continuing pursuit of humility as an antidote to modernity’s human supremacy illness, the atoms that constitute who I am take issue with lofty and self-aggrandizing concepts of idealism, dualism, and free will—replaced by the unflattering material world and its staggering wealth of emergent complexity. I have

If the Gene Technology Bill is passed, how many additional doctors will New Zealand need?

Currently, there are 19,350 doctors in New Zealand; that’s one for every 264 people.

Trump’s Executive Orders Threaten Broad Range of Human Rights

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that threaten to undermine respect for international human rights both in the US and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. “The sweeping scope and impact of these executive orders is deeply

United States Withdraws from the World Health Organization

“Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, shall immediately inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the leadership of the WHO of the United States’ withdrawal from the WHO.” - President Trump

How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’

This article was produced by Human Bridges. We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fate, everybody must justify why they should remain on board and their classmates then vote them “on” or

Finding our way home. Part I: What are we missing?

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

When a Vegetarian Sausage Beats an MRI Scanner

Modern doctors rely far too much on technology; they rely too much upon equipment which is often faulty, frequently badly calibrated and more often than not downright misleading. Today’s doctors have lost the skill that was most valued among doctors a generation ago: the skill to make diagnoses. Let’

United Nations sponsored climate cartel has suspended its activities after being abandoned by Blackrock

The Net Zero Asset Managers (“NZAM”) initiative, a coalition of major investors promoting net-zero emissions by 2050, suspended its activities on Monday after losing key members, including BlackRock. NZAM, a formal partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (“UNFCCC’s”) Race to Zero Campaign, says it

Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California

In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and approximately 16,308 hectares have been burned. The fires are already among the most destructive in California’s recorded history. And as happens when major fires erupt in Los

The LA Fires and the Big Bang

What’s happening right now in Los Angeles is almost too painful to write about.