Protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Washington, DC, February 27, 2022. Photo by Amaury Laporte/Flickr. I would encourage many online “leftists” to try a lot harder not to come off as Vladimir Putin bootlickers indifferent to the plight of ordinary Ukrainians (and for that matter of everyday Russians who are
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Canadian Dimension: Fifteen bad Ukraine narratives
Photo by Artem Kniaz/Unsplash Especially when deepened by the fog of war, idiocy comes in many mutually reinforcing forms. Let’s examine and get past some problematic thinking on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But first, let’s proclaim some basic principles. The Ukraine crisis is a good focus for practising the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Protest Alone Won’t Save Our Planet
School Strike for Climate in Melbourne, Australia 19th March 2019. Photo by SS4C (Flickr). We can all use a shot of hope. I got one from 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the disproportionately youthful masses—4 million across 150 cities worldwide—who came out for climate sanity last week. I listened
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: It’s the Green New Deal or Else
I suppose we all owe UCLA economist and Hoover Institution senior fellow Lee Ohanian a debt of gratitude for telling us how it is. The “free market” propagandist recently took to the pages of The Hill, a Washington, D.C., journal for political insiders, to explain that the holy laws of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: “If Bernie Runs?” Wrong Question
Photo by Max Goldberg Remembering Bernie Sanders at Prairie Lights In late 2014 Bernie Sanders came out to Iowa City to speak before a large and enthusiastic crowd at that university town’s venerable independent Prairie Lights Bookstore. It was part of his exploration before finally committing to running for the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
Photo by SSGT. Perry Heimer A Humble Man Who Liked to Wear Socks The obsequious praise of the life and legacy of the now deceased mad-dog killer George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) on the supposedly liberal and left cable networks CNN and MSNBC this last weekend was really something. Some
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: For Popular Sovereignty, Beyond Absurdity
Mike Pence, Brett Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell, and Jon Kyl • Photo by Office of the Vice President It is disgusting almost beyond words that the onetime sexual predator and obvious dissembler Brett Kavanaugh will render judgement on matters of solemn legal, political, and societal relevance in Superpower’s most preeminent judicial
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Porto[sic] Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelled with various U.S. states. In the background are an American Indian holding a book upside down, a Chinese boy at the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Empire Has No Clothes
Photo by Caleb Smith Harsh realities have long mocked United States “elites’” ritual description of their nation state as a benevolent beacon and agent of freedom, democracy, and justice at home and abroad. The mythology doesn’t square with stark disparities and oppressions inflicted by the nation’s unelected and interrelated dictatorships
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Second Thoughts on Bernie’s Viability
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I am starting to think that I may be off base on one of my political calculations. In the course of arguing that Hillary Clinton would be more electable than Bernie Sanders in a general elec…
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