John Scales Avery

Background of the War in Ukraine

Project for a New American Century The Project for a New American Century was a Washington-based “think tank” founded in 1997 by William Kristal and Robert Kagen. The basic idea…

Literacy

A book announcement I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link: Here are some…

Why War?

Albert Einstein's letter to Sigmund Freud In 1931, the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation invited Albert Einstein to enter correspondence with a prominent person of his own choosing on a…

Avoiding Climate Disaster: Our Last Chance?

The most recent IPCC report https://countercurrents.org/2023/04/2023-ipcc-ar6-summary-for-policymakers-last-warning/?swcfpc=1 https://popularresistance.org/ipcc-this-is-the-make-or-break-decade-for-climate-action/ https://popularresistance.org/does-climate-inaction-violate-human-rights/ https://countercurrents.org/2023/04/making-sense-of-the-latest-ipcc-report-2023/?swcfpc=1 The report states that globally “approximately 3.3 to 3.6 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change.”…

Fire And Ice

Robert Frost's poem In 1923, Robert Frost wrote a short poem entitled “Fire and Ice”. Here is the poem: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in…

Prosecuting Donald Trump

Donald Trump is currently being charged with 34 felonies The State of New York, under the leadership of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr., has arrested the former president,…

Our Global Water Crisis

A Few Facts https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-report-drinking-water https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/accelerating-change-on-united-nations-world-water-day-2023/?swcfpc=1 In its home-page on World Water Day, 2021, the United Nations pointed out the following facts: Today, 1 in 3 people live without safe drinking…

America’s Wars

Over 300 wars! As documented in the Wikipedia timeline of U.S. wars, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations and in the Wikipedia list of wars involving the United States, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States the United States of America…

The U.S. Must Stop Threatening China!

America'a aggressive military-industrial complex It appears that the military-industrial complex has complete control of the government of the United States, which recently voted to give the Pentagon roughly a trillion…

NATO’s aggressive militarism

The Illegality of NATO: Violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global…

Our Knowledge-Based Society

I would like to announce the publication of a new nook, entitled “Our Knowledge-Based Society”. The book may be downloaded and circulated, free of charge, from the following link: https://eacpe.org/content/uploads/2023/02/Our-Knowledge-Based-Society-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf…

Lives In Acting

A new, freely downloadable, book I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Lives in Acting”. The pdf file of the book may be downloaded and…

Trying To Predict the Future

I would like to announce the publication of a new nook, entitled “Trying To Predict the Future”. The book may be downloaded and circulated, free of charge, from the following…

Iran, Past and Present

I would like to announce the publication of a new nook, entitled “Iran, Past and Present”. The book may be downloaded and circulated, free of charge, from the following link:…

Militarism of the United States

The U.S. government aims at global hegemony through military force https://popularresistance.org/john-pilger-the-us-is-escalating-war-tensions-with-china-in-desperate-bid-to-maintain-global-power/ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/11/see-867-us-military-bases-on-new-online-tool/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine The military-industrial complex, against which President Dwight D. Eisenhiwer warned in his famous farewell address, has bipartisan…

We Are Demanding Too Much

A book announcement I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link: https://eacpe.org/content/uploads/2022/11/We-are-Demanding-Too-Much-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf The explosive…

Against Nationalism

A book announcement I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link: https://eacpe.org/content/uploads/2022/10/Against-Nationalism-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf A dangerous…

Steps towards avoiding a climate catastrophe

I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link; https://eacpe.org/content/uploads/2022/09/Steps-Towards-Avoiding-a-Climate-Catastrophe-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf The topics discussed in the…

Reforming The United Nations

A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a new book about how we might strengthen the United Nations and make it more effective in…

Famine, Disease And War

Malthus' “Essay on The Principle of Population” T.R. Malthus' “Essay on The Principle of Population”, the first edition of which was published in 1798, was one of the the first…

Selling Weapons, Selling War

Why does war persist? War was always madness, always immoral, always the cause of unspeakable suffering, economic waste and widespread destruction, and always a source of poverty, hate, barbarism and…

The threat of large-scale famine

Disasters threaten human civilization Among the greatest dangers to human civilization are nuclear war and catastrophic climate change, dangers which also threaten the biosphere. In addition to these two existential…

Homo Sapiens?

A book announcement Humans, in their arrogance, call themselves not just "Homo sapiens", but "Homo sapiens sapiens", the "wisest of the wise"! Admittedly, our species has enormous technical and scientific…

Lives in Prehistory

A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book which describes the early history  of the earth, and the evolution of humans. The book…

Lives in the Middle Ages

A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of culture in the Middke Ages. The book may be downloaded…

Corporations Versus Democracy

A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the ways in which giant corporations control both governments and media, thus…

Lives in the Renaissance

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

What Russia Wants

Russia does not want to invade Ukraine Both Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, and its Foreign Secretary, Sergey Laverov, have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend to invade Ukraine. Logic…

Warnings From The Poles

A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses worrying recent developments in the Antarctic and the Arctic, which warn us…

Lives in the 20th Century

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

Lives In The 17th Century

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

Tasks For The Future

A new freely downloadable book Today the world is facing several threats, and to avoid them we need to act. The greatest threats are catastrophic climate change and thermonuclear war,…

Lives In The Ancient World

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

Money And Politics

If politicians continue to use money as a guide in making decisions, we will lose the battle to save human society and the biosphere from the catastrophic long term effects…

Lives in the 18th Century

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

Lives In The 19th Century

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

Problems With Capitalism

One of the problems with capitalism is that it is driving us towards disaster. Greed is good? Adam Smith (1723-1790) maintained that individual self-interest can and should be the principle…

Who Is My Neighbor?

A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses religious ethics and cosmology. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of…

Terrorism: A False Threat

Twenty years after the events of 9/11, 2001, and in the midst of the messy withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, it seems apropriate to question the validity of…

Lives in Biology

Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…

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