That’s not to say an American jury will convict them but all four Minneapolis police officers present at the killing of George Floyd will stand trial. Derek Chauvin, the cop who held his knee to Floyd’s neck well after his victim lost consciousness has his charge upped from 3rd degree
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If there was an anthem for the times at hand it might be Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth.” There’s something happening hereWhat it is ain’t exactly clearThere’s a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to beware There is something happening today and I think we’re struggling
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A mural celebrating essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair. The utter failure of private capitalism to prepare for the coronavirus should have surprised no one. Private capitalism, as business school graduates repeat, focuses on profit. The “profit incentive,” they learn, makes private capitalism the superior,
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Covid Journal, June 3, 2020
The leaders of two companies show … leadership by supporting #BlackLivesMatter.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Andrew Coyne’s Pre-Mortem of Donald Trump
Coyne unloads on the man he calls “the least suitable candidate for high office in the United States.” …a petulant, insecure man-child, so wholly lacking in intelligence, competence, integrity or emotional stability as to be disqualified in most states from driving a bus, let alone leading what was once the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Brace Yourself for a Wetter, Deeper Future
There won’t be any Nobel Prizes for this but a report from Environment Canada says that a warmer, more humid atmosphere and increasingly heavy rains and flooding are – wait for it – linked. That’s also our future, and it’s our present, according to Ottawa’s boffins. Warmer temperatures due to
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: The Dilemma of Police Unions
If 2020 has constantly delivered anything, it has been situations that have forced us all to face issues that we have put off for far too long. This year and the events that we have seen so far have stripped bare some of those issues, forcing us to confront them.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot opines that the UK has ceased to be a functioning democracy as unelected people exercise unchecked power. And Bruce Livesey wonders whether the U.S. is tearing itself apart as the racial divisions used to undermine class cohesion become untenable, while Rebecca
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: University of Alberta – Firing Kathleen Lowrey Whose Views Align With Material Reality.
How not to run an academic institution. My Alma mater is demonstrating some worrisome (read batshit fucking stupid) decisions regarding firing female staff for having the absolute gall of teaching the ‘unorthodox’ view that biological sex is important to women and their struggle against patriarchy. Her feminist views are apparently
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: With The People In the Streets
We mourn the death of democracy in the United States. George Monbiot writes that the same thing is happening in the United Kingdom: Established power in this country is surrounded by a series of defensive rings. As soon as you begin to name them, you see that the UK is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Modern-Day Prophet
If you know anything about Old Testament traditions (and I confess to knowing only a little about them), you may be aware of the role played by the prophets. Contrary to popular belief, their main function was not to predict the future but rather to serve as a conduit for
Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Time to Defund the Police
For extra visual impact. pic.twitter.com/t4CMLHDzbN — Péter — BLM • austerity never works (@96fps) May 31, 2020 Militarization of police forces isn’t just an American problem, it’s a global problem, and it needs to stop. One of the many reasons police are buying tanks and high tech weaponry is because
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Hypocrites come in all nationalities
During an extraordinary time when the world is talking about the virus of racism in the US, various pro-Trudeau bots want me to stop talking about racism here. I won’t.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump’s Terror.
We were spell-bound Monday evening watching the television coverage of events around the American white house. We had heard recordings of what he had said to many of the U.S. state governors earlier in the day and dreaded how it might play out through the evening. This was the belligerent
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Jane Goodall – Humanity Now Hangs in the Balance.
Renowned naturalist, Jane Goodall, says we have a choice – we either change direction quickly or we’re done. Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically change our food systems in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, the prominent naturalist Jane Goodall has warned. She blamed
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: American Riots Continue
I KNEW there was something wrong there. I just didn't think it was the *Hitler* pic that had been photoshopped XD https://t.co/lp22xJVfO6 — GRRRR, Rant-o-matic Shark (@grrrr_shark) June 3, 2020 The United States has been led by a war criminal, and by a now open fascist since I’ve been 20.
Continue readingCanadian Trends: The real war is the information war and it has very much begun
I think I’m ready to write about these protests or given Donald Trump has invoked the insurrection act perhaps I’ll call this an insurrection now. I must apologize to Albertans as I’m having to divert from my offensive against the fuckwad UCP to focus on the deteriorating situation in the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alistair MacGregor column: Standing up for seniors
Across Canada, seniors are scared. By Alistair MacGregor Across Canada, seniors are scared. Our nation’s elders, who have spent their entire lives working, paying taxes, and building communities, are now facing their time of Read more…
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