By Jonathan Michael Feldman, August 8, 2023 Ecocide Champion Nations A July 23, 2023 report by Kristoffer Tigue published in Inside Climate News explained that a proposal to commit the G20 “members to triple their renewable energy development by 2030…failed to pass amid opposition from Saudi Arabia, China and Russia.” Tigue wrote: “The deadlocked deals,…
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Global Solidarity Requires Vigilant Whataboutism By Jonathan Michael Feldman, July 23, 2023; Revised July 25, 2023 The Militarist Turn of the Left Sweden is a useful test regarding how vigilant left parties are in opposing the militarism that props up mass murder, authoritarianism and anti-democratic forces. I argue that these parties’ efforts are often vaguely…
June 4, 2022: U.S.S. Kearsarge enters the heart of Stockholm, part of the Social Democratic domestic campaign for militarized “democratic” Sweden. Photo: Author. By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 8, 2023 “We must release the human imagination, in order to open up a new exploration of the alternatives now possible for the human community; we must…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 26, 2023; Revised March 30, 2023. On March 29, 2023 Swedish Television (SVT) reported the findings of the Climate Policy Council that the new right-wing Swedish government’s policy was was insufficient for achieving the country’s climate goals. Emissions had to be reduced more quickly if the parliament’s climate goals were…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 22, 2022 I conducted the following interview with ChatGPT in order to test the academic and intellectual capacities and orientation of ChatGPT. The following is a verbatim transcript. ChatGPT is programmed to engage in the moral relativism by constantly showing both sides of an argument and rarely takes sides in…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 22, 2022 I conducted the following interview with ChatGPT in order to test the academic and intellectual capacities and orientation of ChatGPT. The following is a verbatim transcript. ChatGPT is programmed to engage in the moral relativism by constantly showing both sides of an argument and rarely takes sides in…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, June 28, 2022 Linus Hagström’s article, “Debatten om Nato begriper inte begreppen,” (“The debate on NATO does not provide an understanding of key concepts,”) has added important value to the debate about NATO, but in an article like this authors have limited space to make their points. His focus is on…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, June 18, 2022 Here are ten simple rules for persons trying to make a documentary about Swedish weapons transfers. We have reverse-engineered an STV documentary about the subject which you can view here and which is referenced in the plate above. Rule (1) Do not interview anyone from the peace movement;…
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Jonathan Michael Feldman, June 2 and 3, 2022 Preamble Fifty years ago, Barry Commoner explained a comprehensive approach to ecological transformation as part of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment: “Somebody is going to have to pay the debt and people are scrambling to see that the other fellow pays. So we’re…
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__________________________________________________________________________ By Jonathan Michael Feldman, May 28, 2022; Updated May 29, 2022 On May 19, 2022, Yuriy Gorodnichenko (a visiting scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco), Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York), Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley) and Illona Sologoub (VoxUkraine) wrote an open letter challenging Noam Chomsky and others for their views on…