Is Barack Obama a fake progressive (fauxgressive), or simply a non-progressive?
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The Disaffected Lib: Showdown for America
It’s crunch time for America. China is getting tired of picking up America’s bar tab and has put the US on notice that the days of cheap booze may soon be over. No more bad cheques, thank you very much and absolutely no more rowdy bra…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Economic Disaster One Averted. Economic Disaster Two Unfolds.
There are two types of economists at work today. There’s the A Team, guys like Krugman and Stiglitz. There’s the B Team, guys like Harper and the people advising American politicians. The A Team win Nobel Prizes. &nbs…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When You Don’t Know Who to Blame – You’re an American
You can’t hope to change much when control of the narrative is what really matters. In the United States today, it’s not actions but perceptions upon which elections are won. Many Americans, enough to shift control of one or bot…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hey, Morons. Yeah, You.
To all my wonderful American friends wrestling with your country’s debt and deficit crisis. You’re obviously incapable of seeing the forest for the trees so here’s a FOX-free way to look at your problems.When your government began running deficit…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What If the Pendulum Won’t Swing Back?
The bastion of today’s far right is unquestionably the United States. Neo-conservatism has insinuated itself into every aspect of the American corporate state and has entrenched itself in American society. It has become so institutionalized…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Happy Independence Day, Americans. Now, Settle Down.
There are signs that 9/11 fever may have run its course with our southern cousins. A ‘4th of July’ poll conducted by Time Magazine and the Aspen Institute reportedly concludes that Americans are beginning to come to terms with their decline from t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Founding Father Denounces Today’s Warfare State
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America Teeters on A Great Depression
It wasn’t that long ago that our Ruler, Stephen Harper, worshiped all things American. Canada was a lazy, backward, northern-European style welfare state in the very worst sense of the term. We would never be, never deserved to …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Big Win for American Corporatocracy
The other shoe drops. A federal judge in Virginia has leapfrogged the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and ruled that a century-old law barring corporate contributions to political candidates is unconstitutional. Let the buying b…
Continue readingDrive-by Times: Superman questions the American way
Some Superman fans want the Man-of-Steel to remain resolutely American in an uncomplicated defender-of-the-American-way fashion. The same caped patriot defending the same set of values more or less – even though we live in a world that is more complex,…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: China: Fear of its Rise is Fear of Ourselves
A recent Economist article, The dangers of a rising China, leads a 14 page report loosely discussing the dangers posed to the world by China’s eclipsing of the USA’s international economic and military order. The article attempts to draw parallels in the power-balance shift between Britain and Germany which led
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Riots and Disparity: Rome, London and Toronto
International headlines in the last two weeks have reported a massive amount of social unrest and unsettling news across the developed world, including riots and economic data which on the surface may appear discordant and unrelated, but are united as part of larger political and economic trends. Fees Protest, by
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Drones, Torture, Rendition: Democratic Values?
A Huffington Post column by Johann Hari summarizes certain revelations stemming from the leaked USG diplomatic cables by Wikileaks. The piece posits that Julian Assange’s efforts have made the world safer and are a boon to US National Security, that a better educated public with proof of government wrongdoings can
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