Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety [Book Trailer] (by BTLbooks) And you thought things were a bit frightening in Canada. Take a good look if you really want to be traumatized with fear as we continue our…
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Politics and Entertainment: Obama administration pushes ahead with drone killings
Obama Administration Pushes Ahead with Drone Killings
The Not so Subtle Militarization of Canada
With the exception of Israel and probably Canada, every other nation considers the use of unmanned drones to be illegal. Who cares about their l…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Mark Carney’s ‘shock’ appointment means more of the same neoliberal policies for UK
Mark Carney’s ‘shock’ appointment means more of the same | Ann Pettifor |
One should remember that Carney sits firmly inside the neoliberal bubble and that he was bred by a #banksters’ culture at the Vampire Squid’s emporium. Support …
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: An Open Letter to President Obama By Michael Moore
Dear President Obama:Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations ondecisively winning your second term as our president! The first timeyou won four years ago, most of us couldn’t contain our joy and foundourselves literal…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: A Call for Direct Action: Is it Worthy of Consideration?
Your Anon News • A CALL FOR DIRECT ACTION
Although there are facets of this perspective that are highly debatable, as many of the comments on Tumblr reveal, this is an intriguing argument not without some merit because aspects of it are …
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Chris Hedges: Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Chris Hedges: Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
We are well on our way to becoming Gazans under neoliberal rule as the 1%, the investor class and its corporate institutions, becomes more frightened of losing both t…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Reporting on Israeli Assault on Gaza
Canadian Media reporting on the current conflict seems less than balanced – not that there really is such an animal – favouring an Israeli perspective on the matter and the damage being inflicted on Israeli civilians by Hamas’ or Gaza militants’ rocke…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Why Bankers Rule the World: Your Continuing Debt is Their Business
It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
A detailed reminder that debt fuels the economy and that, given the deep neoliberal muddy hole in which we dwell, it must continue on its neverending circular journey else the whole system will coll…
Politics and Entertainment: Youth Demographic Vital for 2015
118,296,5 502 votes. The 1/5 of the total vote for Obama coming from the youth demographic (18-29) – even if it might have been generated more by antipathy towards Romney than support for Obama – is encouraging. Let us hope a similiar dynamic emerges b…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: America in 2012: Awe, Disgust, Sadness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q6DNm6rrYY&sns=em It’s still relatively early in the morning, so don’t watch this too soon after breakfast because I guarantee you’ll be ill. You may also weep uncontrollably. I’ m not kidding. I had trouble getting through this as I watched with a mixture of awe, disgust, and sadness.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Three depressing conversations I’ve had recently:
Three depressing conversations I’ve had recently: 1) With a entrepreneurial neighbour who’s about to open a franchise restaurant. Unions are intolerable, crushing people’s individualism and stifling business development, and the world’s biggest problems is governance. How do “we” govern? He’s got an MBA from a prestigious American university. 2) The real estate agent who sold me my
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Romneyism | Common Dreams: 10 Principles of Classic Neoliberal Capitalist Dictatorships
Romneyism | Common Dreams A eloquent summary of ten classic neoliberal principles of a capitalist dictatorship. Each and every one of these principles, you will notice, applies to Harper in spades. Many Americans are fearful of such a dictatorship. We already have one.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: U.S. military is the single biggest oil user in the world.
U.S. military is the single biggest oil user in the world. As both Obama and Romney continue to support this inherent institution of violence, reducing the use of fossil fuel and thus global warming would seem a moot prospect indeed. A focused political push against military spending is obviously required
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Wakeup Call for Business Community?
From the very heart of the business community comes the magazine cover of the year. Get it, Big Oil?
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Time for Real Resistance
Isn’t it time to begin real resistance – actions and strategies beyond rallies and marches, beyond petitions for this or that worthy cause and letters to MPs and the editor, beyond conferences and discussion groups, beyond Facebook and Twitter? Isn’t it time for all progressives to come together in a
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The citizen as consumer, as a mere "marketing target."
http://tinyurl.com/9nu7j9c Under a neoliberal regime such as ours, anything – including your very soul – can be commodified. (Ask those members of the evangelical church to which OGL apparently belongs.) The very concept of consumer assumes a market. Yet we’ve naturalized the concept so unconsciously no one questions the term
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Mock Democracy
Budget Implementation Bill To Be Studied By 9 Committees: via HuffPost http://huff.to/QGcI1W Big f.. .king deal. As if this sham process makes one damn bit of difference, but, hey, all those parliamentarians have to do something since real debate is impossible. Might as well have a make work project. It’ll
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Canadians Much Deeper in Debt
Canadian households are much deeper in debt, Statscan says. Canadians’ credit is now at the same level it reached just before the housing bubble burst in the U.S. and Britain – that is 163%. Given a stagnant, no growth global and domestic economy squeezing the average household, not to mention
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Economic Implosion is only one Factor in Our Demise
With no rebound in sight, there’s never been a slump like this – The Globe and Mail The focus here is on the usual neoliberal casino economics, not the real, industrial economy. And an important context for such a continuing set of stagnant economic conditions is glaringly absent in this
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Why Chris Hedges Believes That Serious Revolt Is the Only Option People Have Left | Alternet
Why Chris Hedges Believes That Serious Revolt Is the Only Option People Have Left | Alternet “It is no more morally justifiable to kill someone for profit than it is to kill that person for religious fanaticism. And yet, from health companies to the oil and natural gas industry to
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