Foreign correspondent as cartoonist: the marriage has traced a slow path inward from the margins, with Joe Sacco along for the whole of the ride. And make no mistake: his are red-blooded cartoons, brimming with the energy of outrage, given life by Sacco’s embedded reportage and first-hand interviews. The trickier
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Canadian Dimension | Articles: Digital Disconnect How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Robert McChesney, a communications theorist at Illinois, has written previously on the consolidation of American news media, and (more recently, with John Bellamy Foster) the mechanics of global capitalism. Here he takes to task internet “celebrants”: those uncritically cheerleading tech-led economic growth in all its forms; those engaged in a
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Thieves of Bay Street
Chalk it up as a point of
Canadian smugness: that
undiluted avarice sloshing
around the American
financial sector circa
2008 proved to be caustic
stuff, valiantly sniffed
out and tempered on this
side of the border by our
sober breed of bankers
and bro…