Published inNon-violence·2 days agoMember-onlyA Millennium of Massacres: Azerbaijan Drives Out Armenians From Artsakh/Nagorno-KarabakhEthnically Cleansing Indigenous Natives Continues Armenians are one of the many indigenous natives of the South Caucasus area. Azeris and Turks are not. (Azeris and Turks are pretty much the same people, and they both generally feel that way; their languages are as similar as the Ukrainian language is to the Russian language.) These facts…Azerbaijan5 min readAzerbaijan5 min read
Published inNon-violence·4 days agoMember-onlyStakeholder Control: Turning Renters Into Property ShareholdersA previous article in this Non-Violence publication’s Stakeholder Control series advocated that the government only recognize rental contracts in which renters gain a degree of ownership shares in the property as they make payments. This article fleshes out more details and compares it with rent-to-own mortgages. First, this construct needs…Rental9 min readRental9 min read
Published inNon-violence·Sep 20Member-onlyOvercoming Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Violations: Please Sign Petition at UnblockHumanity.comPlease sign petitions on behalf of the indigenous mountain people that the Azerbaijan dictatorship is blockading from receiving…well, everything. Medicine. Food. Here at Unblockhumanity.com. You can read about the inhumanity of it all in Reuters, The Guardian, Amnesty International, and all major outlets. …Human Rights2 min readHuman Rights2 min read
Published inNon-violence·Sep 3Member-onlyGenetics Without Genes: How Rightwing Racists are Abusing ScienceRacism in American still survives among the left and the right, and especially at the extreme fringes of both. This article debunks the junk science of right-wing racists who want to believe that some races are genetically smarter than others. For an example of right-wing racists obsessed with such junk…Racism14 min readRacism14 min read
Published inNon-violence·Aug 28Member-onlyCharting Humanity’s Future: the Israeli Kibbutz / Moshav as Libertarian CommunitiesAn earlier article in this series highlighted the fact that the only modern, educated human society with a decent standard of living that also has enough children to sustain itself is Israel. But not all of Israel: Most likely, in Israel the only secular people having enough children are living…Sustainability5 min readSustainability5 min read
Published inNon-violence·Aug 18Member-onlyRamaswamy Proposes Restricting Voting Age: Expanding Suffrage to Children & Their Parents Would Achieve Same Goals, but BetterRepublican Party Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has proposed to raise the voting age to 25, allowing younger adults to vote only if they pass the immigrant citizenship test or serve as first responders or military. …Voting6 min readVoting6 min read
Published inNon-violence·Aug 10Member-onlyMartian Tries to Save Humanity From Infertility Oblivion, Lacks Children VotingSomeone writing under the pen name John Carter in an awesomely-named Substack publication called Barsoom (i.e., Mars) just wrote a real tour de force outlining how to save humanity from choosing our own extinction, a masterpiece that deserved an Instalanche. …Sustainability6 min readSustainability6 min read
Published inNon-violence·Aug 4Member-onlySave Humanity: Give Power to Parents Casting Children’s Vote BallotsA previous article generally advocated permitting children to vote, and parents to vote for them, in order to balance the electorate and therefore public policy more in favor of family and parenting and away from childless people creating a ruthless economy and the elderly indebting future generations. This article fleshes…Parenting5 min readParenting5 min read
Published inNon-violence·Aug 2Member-onlySave Humanity: Expand Universal Voting Rights Suffrage to ChildrenOne political reform can save humanity from all its current problems: Enable children to vote, perhaps with their parents’ assistance. This proposal may sound radical, but it is not new; it has been advocated recently in, for example, a conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI)-affiliated op-ed in the New York Times…Sustainability5 min readSustainability5 min read
Published inNon-violence·Jul 27Member-onlyThe Oldest Language: 70,000 Year Old ClicksThe previous article in this series diving into the very surprising relationships between world languages revealed that the few linguists who have proposed to classify all world languages together generally agree that modern human languages began diverging from each other around 70,000 in Africa. This article focuses on that first…History5 min readHistory5 min read
