THE FIFTH COLUMN

"This column is dedicated to the proposition that Canada (and indeed the world) is in a crisis situation and that fundamental social change is required to remedy this situation." - The First Column, Lambda November 2, 1971 This blog is inspired by my column of the same name in the Laurentian University Newspaper, Lambda, from 1971-1973. The title refers to the concept of subverting the system from within. To read key excerpts from those columns read the first few posts in this blog.

2025-11-27

Postscript AI

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When I finished writing my last blog post I started to wonder what it would look like if I had asked an LLM-based AI to write it. I have l...
2025-11-23

On Reforming Capitalism

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 These are the conventional definitions of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means o...
2025-11-01

Much Ado About The Deep State, NOT

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This post is written from a Canadian perspective. Deep state is a term used for (real or imagined) potential, unauthorized and often s...
2025-10-21

Three Ways to Improve American Politics

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I am writing this as a citizen of a world (and also as someone with a degree in Political Science) that no matter where we live are strongl...
2025-10-14

Obama, Trump & The Nobel Peace Prize

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The world took a collective sigh of relief when Donald Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, though nobody but Donald expected he wou...
2025-10-04

What Is True Democracy

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If your idea of democracy stops at majority rule it is not true democracy. If your idea of democracy allows the majority to oppress minorit...
2025-09-17

Cryptocurrency and War – Cousins in Absurdity – Challenged by AI

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Cryptocurrency – a way to supposedly create wealth by wasting massive amounts of water and energy to do meaningless computer calculations th...
2025-09-06

On The Record

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Having accepted the evidence, without reciting it all here, The Fifth Column is going On The Record as recognizing that, among other things,...
2025-09-01

How to Build an Intelligent Online Answer Machine

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Ever since Facebook and Amazon people have become lazier, or perhaps more accurately addicted to convenience over all else, including ethic...
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2025-08-28

Historical Mythology – WWII: The Anti-Fascist War

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As we watch the direction the American Trump regime is taking today we are seeing a lot of commentary and memes referencing how the allies ...
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Richard W. Woodley was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1950. He earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Laurentian University where he was the News Editor of the student newspaper Lambda and active in student politics. He was active in the New Democratic Party and Waffle in Sudbury and Kanata, as well as Kanata municipal politics. He was a member of the Bridlewood Residents Hydro Line Committee (BRHLC) and creator of the now archived Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service. He worked on Parliament Hill for 33 years indexing the Debates of the House of Commons (Hansard) and it's committees. Richard has been an outdoorsperson and environmentalist for most of his life and a life long cyclist.
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