Understanding the world by learning its truths.

First created for our fraternal site Cyrano’s Journal,  VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY is a space specifically devoted to materials that people should have acquired in college but for a variety of reasons, including the degradation of higher education in the United States  (making it more “vocational”), and the strong bourgeois bias that permeates all disciplines, never did.  Stay tuned, as we are still working on a very large curriculum backlog and more essays of lasting quality may be posted at any time.

EMPOWERING ESSAYS

Reform vs. Awakening (revisited)

ERIC SCHECHTER—As I’ve already mentioned, people aren’t basically greedy and selfish. But our current culture certainly trains those traits into ...
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Understanding American Capitalism (Revised)

PATRICE GREANVILLE—As previously said, measuring all economic and societal "success" by a corporate yardstick of constant growth, capitalism suffers from ...
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As Hurricane Florence Batters Carolinas, Media Ignores Climate Change Connection

"The environment that all of these storms are occurring in has changed. The sea temperatures are warmer, the ocean heat ...
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Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along

DESMOG—DeSmog UK and DeSmog have worked through Shell companies’ annual reports submitted to the UK’s Companies House and 10-K’s and ...
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Are the mainstream U.S. ‘news’media evil?

Binney told me: “Once we proved G–2.0 is a fabrication and a manipulator, the timing and location questions couldn’t be ...
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The Russian Military Campaign in Syria—2015-2018 (Complete & updated)

This is a detailed summary of military and political developments in Syria since the start of the Russian military operation ...
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