In his daily CNN newsletter, Brian Stelter gives a summary of some of the attacks made on journalists over the last few days in the George Lloyd protests across the US: [there have been a] shocking number of cases of reporters being assaulted and arrested while covering the unrest.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: George Floyd – What can I add?
It keeps happening, over and over and over again. Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, with plenty before, in between, and sadly I fear, more to come. Why? I think I know the answer, and its ugly. The sad but honest reality is that a lot of white Americans are
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Jason Kenney’s Miniscule Pandemic Bump
He’s tried everything from rolling up his shirtsleeves and pointing at graphs to quoting Franklin Roosevelt (“we have nothing to fear but fear itself”), but still Albertans refuse to give him his due. Jason Kenney’s pandemic performance gave him a one point bump in approval ratings (from 47 to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Revitalizing Left Internationalism
Protesters demonstrate against selling arms to Saudi Arabia, September 2017. Photo by AlisdareHickson/Twitter. The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing a lot about the current capacities of social movements and communities in struggle. Much of this is hopeful, as people across North America are organizing workplace actions, resistance to prisons and detention
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Ford Government: Ontario’s 13-Week Layoff Limit Eliminated During COVID Period
The Ford Government has made a crucial, temporary change to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) that will impact countless employers and employees in the Province. By operation of Ontario Regulation 228/20, published on May 29, 2020, the ordinary13-week limit on the duration of workplace layoffs has effectively been suspended. This time-limit will
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: I Don’t Even Know How to Process This
How, over the span of 48 or 72 hours, does it seem that America has entered free fall? The brutal death of another unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer. Protests and riots sweeping the United States and spilling over into other countries as far away
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: May31: more
I can’t keep up with this. That’s why this is my second extension of the May 30 blog on the U.S. riots. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd-protests-reporters-targeted-by-police-and-crowds Besides France, there are protests in Britain. And in Montreal, the city I lived most of my life in, there are demonstrations planned for today. It’s hard
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Sparky the Talking Rat: in yesterday walks today
Sparky: in yesterday walks today! pic.twitter.com/RBCpDaPTZH — SparkyTheTalkingRat (@RatSparky) May 31, 2020
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: May 31: a special addition to Saturday’s blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlU8OOUMq94 even as I was writing yesterday’s blog, things got terribly, terribly worse. Now, at least 30 American cities have been caught up in riots against racism – and, perhaps, even more against disillusionment and anger among the American people in general. Increasingly, we can expect to see an American
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis into a new normal, rather than trying to return to the distorted society that existed before. – Sophie Ikura and Joshua Tapper discuss the other curves of ill health beyond
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Collapse Of The American Empire
There is a future day coming where historians will look upon the Trump years as the definitive end of the American Empire, and in particular 2020 as the end of the ability of law enforcement to maintain civil society. I do not merely speak of the riots currently going on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Metric – Youth Without Youth
Continue readingKersplebedeb: We are the Russian Maoist Party, the Party of Rednecks, Dirty Migrants, Chicks and Faggots (repost)
We are the Russian Maoist Party, the party of rednecks, dirty migrants, chicks and faggots. That is what the bourgeoisie named us. If only it were not half-blind and could tell us apart – us little, dumb, wicked inbreds. Read the rest of this post on the original site at
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The China Crisis
Justin Trudeau is facing a COVID Crisis. But just around the corner is a China Crisis. Robin Sears writes: It’s essential when dealing with authoritarian governments to analyze carefully what really worries them, and what they will ignore. Any economic measures we might take they could care less about, as
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump will not go gentle into that good night.
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was talking about older people and death in that often-quoted poem. It is much to far ahead of the election to make a confident prediction but I can cheerfully suggest what might happen when Joe Biden beats Trump in November. When all avenues for dispute are
Continue readingCanadian Trends: George Floyd, the hero that broke the camel’s back
The U.S. has reached the breaking point and where they go next is dependent on it’s citizens. They’re going to need to either go all the way, or give up now, the police response tells you everything you need to know about what the system in the U.S. thinks about
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Americans Riot For Equality
ICE T sums it up for people who don’t understand the looting: People are saying.. They should protest like this or demonstrate like that… We tried Taking a Knee… A RIOT is a RIOT.. It happens when the people can no longer take the BS.. — ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) May
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When ‘Normal" Is Pathalogical
A recurrent theme on this blog is the subject of how something as benign sounding as “normal” can be a one-way road to the cliff-edge. Anthropologist, Jared Diamond, addresses normalcy in his book, “Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” He discusses normalcy in the context of “creeping normalcy”
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