“For ten years we’ve been engaged in wars that have enriched the wealthiest one percent, decimated our economy and left our nation with a generation of traumatized and wounded veterans that will require care for years to come.”  – Joseph Carter, Iraq war veteran. From the Guardian Newspaper. I began this post quite some time…

Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by…

There has been a class warfare going on… It’s just that my class is winning. And we aren’t just winning, I mean we’re killing them. -Warren Buffett, a rich financial capitalist.  In a bizarre turn of events some of Wall Streets biggest names, like Warren Buffett and George Soros have come out in support of…

This is a post my friend Jeff tried to leave in the comments section under my piece on voting. For some reason the comments section on this blog is not working, so I have re-posted this below:  Well, now it has been a few months, and I am curious on how well your experiment has…

You can achieve anything if you try hard enough. Anything.  – Capitalist platitude.  I just came across a wonderful term on Jodi Dean’s blog to describe the place of the individual from the perspective of capitalist realism. Magical voluntarism. Anything can be achieved by the Herculean effort of the individual will. Anything at all. This…

Neoliberalism is a war. A World War. It is, says Subcomandante Marcos of the Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion Nacional, the Fourth World War. The Third was the Cold War, a war fought in a global arena between two superpowers, but not directly by them. It was a war at the peripheries. We know it was a…

I meant to publish something about this around the time of the Canadian federal elections but never got around to it. For some reason I thought of it today, and so without further ado I will mount my defense of apathy. I did not vote. I do not read the news (except sometimes I do.)…

The place I love best is a sweet memory  It’s a new path that we trod They say low wages are reality  If we want to compete abroad. – Bob Dylan  A word about the title of this blog. Evening Haze, as you may be aware, is a reference to the song “Working Man’s Blues…

The time golem stood and was, ignored the linearity around it, only was. It was a violence, a terrible intrusion in the succession of moments, a clot  in diachrony, and with the dumb arrogance of its existence it  paid the outrage of ontology no mind.  – China Mieville Iron Council  By some strange happenstance or…

Omnia sunt communia  – Thomas Muntzer (1488-1525) All things are in common. It was this confession that led to the beheading of Thomas Muntzer, theologian and revolutionary. Muntzer’s severed head and body was intended as a warning against heresy, and served to enshrine Muntzer an ambiguous role in history. Beloved more of future generations of…