Well this article is an interesting addition to the swirl of debate and exposé that’s happening around Rupert Murdoch. The attached article is from J-Wire and is written by Isi Leibler. As all this scandal and humiliation was unfolding, I hadn’t consi…
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RedBedHead: Insurance Corporations Believe In Climate Change
Never let it be said that all of the banks and corporations on the planet have their head in the sand when it comes to climate change. Why, just recently, I received a letter from my home insurance provider telling me about some important changes to my…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Your Processed Food Is Made From Wood
Several years ago, I read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It’s a classic piece of American naturalism published in 1906, that exposed the horrible conditions of life for immigrant workers in the meat packing industry. It also exposed the unsanitary, dise…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Gee Skewers Ford
I was about to write another pithy dismembering of the lies and stupidities of the mayoralty of His Honour Rob Ford. But then I read today’s article in the Globe & Mail by Marcus Gee and, frankly, I couldn’t have said it better myself. We may all r…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Cancel The Corporate Tax Cuts
Spotted these excellent posters in my neighborhood by the Toronto Labour Council. Drag that they don’t advertise a protest or some sort of event. But it’s good that they’re trying to spread the word.
Continue readingRedBedHead: Murdoch & News International: BURN BABY BURN!
I’ll leave it to others of more sober professional inclinations and responsibility to provide the sophisticated analysis that the present crisis in Britain deserves. For my part I will unabashedly and with great joy celebrate the giant f***ing bonfire …
Continue readingRedBedHead: China & Canada: It Was Never About Human Rights
There’s much foofaraw in the media about the visit by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to China. Are we now neglecting human rights in the interests of profit? Have we stopped supporting liberation struggles, like those of Tibet? NDP Foreign Affairs…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Workers of Egypt: Strike! Occupy! Bring revolution to victory!
This is an awesome leaflet from a section of the Egyptian left on how to drive forward the revolution. It deserves wide distribution and is a taste of the ferment that is going on in Egypt at the moment. From here in Canada it can be hard to really und…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Kurds Feel Sharp End Of Turkish Democracy
When the floodgates opened and the Arab Spring swept the Middle East earlier this year, the phrase I kept seeing over and over in the media was “The Turkish Model”. The pundits and politicians, once they’d gotten over their horror at the prospect of pu…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Mayor Ford: Lies, Stupidity and Statistics
I suppose that few people are in danger of suggesting that Rob Ford is the sharpest knife in the drawer, which makes it all the more unfortunate that he’s swinging around an axe like leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The target for Ford is, o…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ontario Austerity, the Days of Action and How Unions Became So Pathetic
There was a time when unions in Canada fought for jobs, pensions and wages like they meant it. And it wasn’t so very long ago. Well, it was a while – back in the 1970s, to be exact. Back then Canada had the highest rate of unofficial strikes in the adv…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Proof That Cowboys Are Kind of Morons
Apparently riding bulls whose nuts have been twisted to drive them into a frenzy of pain and rage is a stupid, fucking thing to do. According to a recent study, rodeo contestants are 20 times more likely to suffer a “catastrophic injury” than is a foot…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Italy Votes To Kill Its Economy To Save Its Debt Rating
The parasites and rumour-mongers who run the debt ratings agencies, having done their work getting the Greek government to screw their population, have moved on to Italy. Let’s be honest, the ratings agencies are just the propaganda arm – fully funded …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Obama’s Phoney Budget War
There’s a fairly decent chance that the morons who run the American Empire will let the country slip into default at the beginning of August, causing a cascade of penalties and blowback that will kill the barely breathing recovery. Greek politicians ca…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Disaster That Is Afghanistan
This week’s slaying of Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a warlord/mobster with extensive power in Southern Afghanistan is a reminder that NATO and the Americans haven’t got the situation in Afghanistan under control. Not …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Egypt’s Revolution Continues To Burn
Lots of people hoped that everything would return to normal after the dictator Mubarak abdicated. They hoped that once the face at the top was changed people would be happy. None wanted this more than the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (S…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Greece: Bigger Than Lehman Brothers
What a frigging disaster. Back in 2008, the US Federal Reserve let the Lehman Brothers investment bank – which held more than a bellyful of toxic debt, go to the wall. It was meant to bring “calm” to increasingly panicked financial markets. That will p…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Israel Attacks Free Speech To Defend Democracy
When is an attack on democracy not an attack on democracy? When the government says that they are defending democracy, of course. That seems to be the thinking in Israel’s higher circles in any case as a bill moves towards becoming law that will ban Is…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Marvellous Meltdown Of Murdoch’s Media Machine
It couldn’t, to paraphrase, happen to a nicer newspaper. After 168 years the British News of the World has closed down in the face of a momentous scandal regarding phone hacking and corruption. That scandal is touching every aspect of British society, …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Taking Sides In Syria
The article below is a reprint of a longer article by Simon Assaf, a British-Lebanese socialist, that will appear in the upcoming issue of the British magazine Socialist Review. It’s an excellent overview of the history of Syria from its founding foll…
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