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This is the start or the unconscious signal to the world, America's two most powerful political men have severe mental health issues and personality disorders. To start off, the following examples of Pete's address align closely with several diagnostic concepts for Narcissistic Personality Disorder Grandiosity from the DSM-5. Examples of Grandiose and Narcissistic Themes from the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Address: The goal to create the "strongest, most powerful, most lethal and most prepared military on the planet" and Pete's assertion that "Nobody can touch us." Narcissistic…

The complex, human reality of teaching in the modern era, a profession that has subtly emerged as one of the most emotionally and cognitively taxing in society is reflected in classroom complexity. Teachers deal with a daily whirlwind of social, emotional, cultural, and institutional factors that no algorithm or standardized testing policy could ever fully account for. Teachers do more than just impart knowledge. Student diversity is a key component of this complexity. Children from widely disparate socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, speaking various languages, and exhibiting a wide…

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” - Brad Henry “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” - Carl Jung “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - William Butler Yeats One of the most important roles in society and education is carried out by teachers. To establish reasonable guidelines for…

As of October 2025, signs of a quiet storm on the western front of North America are forming across the world’s geopolitical fault lines. The United States has begun a discreet but unmistakable military buildup stretching from the Middle East to the Asia Pacific and even into South America. Beneath the surface, this escalation is driven by mounting American and Israeli tensions with a unprovoked Iran and rest of the BRICS nations and its network of allies, a simmering confrontation that now seems to be edging toward world ignition. In Qatar, the desert skies above Al Udeid Air Base, the…

According to recent podcast analysis by defence and geopolitical experts, some Western countries are changing their military doctrine in anticipation of a limited strategic nuclear conflict. The goal of this strategy is to deter adversaries by establishing a proportionate and credible response to the possible limited use of a nuclear weapon, to avoid any nuclear use in the first place, rather than to fight such a war. ​This tactic is very confusing, though. The idea of a "winnable" or "controllable" nuclear conflict, according to critics, is a dangerous delusion. They argue that it would be…

“Evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name ‘evil.’” - St. Augustine “Evil denotes the privation of good. It is not an essence, but a defect of essence.” - Thomas Aquinas “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” - Friedrich Nietzsche The radical idea that evil doesn't exist at all is put forth by one of the most ancient and significant philosophical theories. The "privation theory," which was developed by St. Augustine, contends that evil is not a positive force or substance that exists independently.…

This year, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation holds a different weight for me. When I turned on the TV today, I had to turn it off. The screen was filled with the faces of Indigenous survivors recounting the trauma they lived through in residential schools. ​Hearing their voices brought my own family's history rushing back. I remembered my mother, aunt, and uncle talking about what happened to them. They were only small children when they were sent away. Their story is one of resilience; at just 11, 12, and 13 years old, they found the strength to run away from the school,…

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” - Hannah Arendt “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is ingrained in us to look for a face to evil. A warlord covered in blood, a tyrant, a dishonest politician. We find it satisfying to think that the epidemic of cruelty will cease if such men are eliminated. T his is illusion. No single heart holds the most relentless types of evil. They are ingrained in the…

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” - George Orwell “The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.” - John Hay Nietzsche's eternal recurrence is a weapon, a mirror, and a soul-testing psychological exercise. Imagine being told that you have to repeat every single humiliation, betrayal, and instance of cowardice or cruelty in…

I recently read Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario. It is a book that strips away illusions. It does not flatter, it does not comfort. It confronts us with a reality so unbearable that world leaders refuse to look or read it. Actually many of those leaders are not capable of reading such a book. The presidents and prime ministers, the military advisors and intelligence chiefs, who toy daily with the lives of billions, have not read this book. Or if they have, they have buried it under the dirt and cement and their delusion that has marked every empire before its collapse. The scenario…

Peace is not a hopeless ideal; rather, it is forged by the souls of Sudan, Ukraine, and Palestine, and by not allowing hopelessness to triumph. If it feels profound right now, it's because history is bending in favour of those who demand better, and we are experiencing a global fatigue brought on by the never-ending war. Why harbour animosity toward another person?

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” - Albert Camus Poverty and ignorance alone cannot produce a ghost of evil. It is a subconscious force that waits for the right opportunity to manifest in the human heart. It is a dangerous belief to think that society can be changed without it. 19th-century liberals held fast to this ideal. They believed that people would become more moral if they had access to education, wealth, and favourable circumstances. Such hopes were…

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.” - Edward Said “The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.” - Baruch Spinoza Trumpism... when a real estate salesman turned president, pitching a dying dream, Trump bragged before the UN about a "American Resurgence." His…

Trump's UN speech was more of a power play than a speech. Under the guise of peace, it was actually a reversal of reality, a magical trick designed to make the victim into the aggressor and the aggressor into the victim. He mentioned ceasefires, but he conveniently ignored the lengthy and horrific history of violent truce violations and unrelenting sieges and genocide carried out by the Israeli government, which was armed and protected by Washington, rather than Hamas. He wasn't recounting history when he said that Hamas had "rejected reasonable offers of peace," but rather rewriting it for a…

“Men are so simple and so much creatures of habit that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.” - Niccolò Machiavelli “Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Chomsky About 54% of Americans are not proficient readers. Low political comprehension, reflected by civic knowledge, political tolerance, information-seeking behaviours, and participation such as voting, is highly correlated with low reading ability (general literacy), according to research. The fabricated American blood feud between…