“Armed and Dangerous.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This is the speech given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on Saturday October 8 at a rally that called on the US to revoke its extradition request for Julian Assange. Merrick Garland and those who work in
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Canadian Dimension: The return of fascism
“The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Strike, strike, strike
“Strike, Strike, Strike.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and the energy crisis is becoming unendurable. They warn, as Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Monarchs belong in the dustbin of history
“Off With Her Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite. The global
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: We are not the first civilization to collapse, but we will probably be the last
“Doomsday Selfie.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois — I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of all but a handful of
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“Our Climate Future.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its busiest day since the Second World War. The United Kingdom saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: NATO: the most dangerous military alliance on the planet
“Together We Are Wrong.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into eastern and central Europe,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Fascists in our midst
“Elephants in the Womb.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to an abortion, but ruled on June 21 that Maine may not exclude religious schools from a state tuition program. It
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: No way out but war
“No Guts No Glory.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable COVID relief program. No respite
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Israeli execution of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh
“Hard Pressed.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera reporter with more than two decades of experience covering armed conflicts, knew the protocol. She and other reporters remained last Wednesday in the open, clearly visible to Israeli snipers about 650 feet away in a building. Her flak
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Jesus, endless war, and the rise of American fascism
“With this Ring.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Democratic Party—which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full control of the White House and Congress at the inception of their presidencies—is banking its electoral strategy around the expected
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Let us now praise Amazon unionists
“Hammer-Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Let us honor those workers who stood up to Amazon, especially Chris Smalls, described by Amazon’s chief counsel as “not smart, or articulate,” who led a walkout at the Amazon warehouse at Staten Island JFK8 at the beginning of the pandemic two years ago to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Waltzing toward Armageddon with the merchants of death
“Raft of Doom.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The greatest evil is war
Ukrainian firefighters stand beneath a television broadcast tower in the Jewish cemetery located in Kyiv’s Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on March 1, 2022. Photo courtesy State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: America’s new class war
Illustration by Mr. Fish There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, Lyft, John Deere, Kellogg, the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia, owned by Berkshire
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Street art depicting Julian Assange in Lambeth, England. Photo by Duncan C/Flickr. For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the US request to extradite Assange not,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The unraveling of the American empire
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by mechanized units in the open desert that did not–wisely–attempt to occupy Iraq, the United
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Papering over the rot
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe Biden, however welcome many are, especially since they can, with a new chief executive, be immediately revoked. It will not
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Battling white supremacy in the ring
Open air Heavyweight World Championship fight between the reigning world champion Tommy Burns of Canada, left, and challenger Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay near Sydney, 1908. Photo by Philipp Kester. The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing Gerald Horne International Publishers, 2020 There were three nationally
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The great delusion
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office. US pharmaceutical corporations are starting to disseminate vaccines to mitigate the globe’s
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