Heather Marsh's Blog

I have been promising for a while to write about the book I am currently working on, Grains of Sand. Ten months after I started it, it has changed quite a bit. I let it cut it in line in the middle of finishing The Ontology Quartet because I thought it would be another short […]

One of the many scripts used to undermine democracy is to accuse a reasonable-to-good leader of corruption, authoritarianism, etc. and have them removed to make way for a completely corrupt or authoritarian leader. We’ve seen that one a lot, in both current events and history: removing Dilma Rousseff to elect Jair Bolsonaro was one exasperating […]

I have such a love-hate relationship with the FIFA World Cup, as in I love footie and hate FIFA. The same goes for the Olympics, the NHL, all other pro sports organizations, and nearly all youth organizations as well. Loving the game is easy, especially now with the fluid nationalism of the teams, the excellent […]

What very interesting times we live in. On the one hand, we are about to make batteries out of sodium instead of lithium, and grow bones from sheep’s wool instead of punishing anyone with weakening bones with the worst pharmaceuticals in existence. On the other hand, Elon. … On May 15 2026, Jose Luis Bautista, […]

What very interesting times we live in. On the one hand, we are about to make batteries out of sodium instead of lithium, and grow bones from sheep’s wool instead of punishing anyone with weakening bones with the worst pharmaceuticals in existence. On the other hand, Elon. … On May 15 2026, Jose Luis Bautista, […]

I keep hearing stock market and recession warnings invoking comparisons of the current oil crisis with the 1970s. There is a very key difference between today’s stock market and the 70s, illustrated by the graph below which was making the rounds of financial forums in April. The graph shows the S&P versus the consumer sentiment […]

Step 7 of How to Dismantle a Dictatorship was Cultivate external allies. In that chapter, I explained how particularly important this was for the US. I wrote: “Russia is an empire based on its control of more than one ninth of the land in the world. China is an empire because it controls more than […]

This is the cover for the new book that I started writing last fall. It is not part of either series I am working on right now, but it is an important book in its own right, and I felt it needed to be published sooner, so I let it cut in line. There will […]

Today, the US and Israel murdered over a hundred little girls in an elementary school. Many politicians said they did it “for the Iranian people.” Many of them want to be hailed as global heroes for it. Many of them think they are already being hailed as heroes by the people around the world celebrating […]

By now, you have probably all heard of the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge. I have heard a lot about it because I have a lot of cousins who live there and I have been there many times. It is a beautiful little town. A lot of Canada’s small towns have chronic violence that runs in […]