Far right wing extremists may be crawling out of the woodwork all over world including Canada.They may be racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay, and in many cases ultra violent, but please don't call them Nazis.They'd rather be called white nationalists, or identitarians, or yellow vested patriots or whatevers.Which has some progressives wondering when
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sigal Samuel reports on Gary Bloch’s work in prescribing secure incomes to address health problems arising out of poverty. And Murtada Haizer and Stephen Moranis point out the massive social and economic returns on investments in community housing. – D.C. Fraser reports on
Continue readingwmtc: five things you probably don’t know about frederick douglass (and u.s. history)
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, David W. Blight’s monumental biography of that greatest of Americans, is a long, challenging, and utterly fascinating read. After waiting for months to borrow it from the library, I ended up returning the library copy and buying it from Amazon. The book is filled with
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Window Into the Hateful Minds of Canada’s Far Right
The Globe & Mail has got its hands on what they were never supposed to see – 150,000 chat room messages exchanged among Canadian rightwing extremists. They come from all walks of life: tradesmen, soldiers, a student teacher, a financial analyst, an aspiring lawyer, among others. And they are in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tom Parkin writes about the need for workers to be at the centre of a Green New Deal for Canada: Those determined to reverse austerity, inequality and environmental damage need to help Canadians be clear that there’s a huge difference between a Green
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Morris Pearl and Pramila Jayapal make the case for raising more revenue from the people with the most to contribute. And Jayati Ghosh notes that a minimum effective corporate tax rate would go a long way toward avoiding the offshore sheltering of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the gap between the 1% and the rest of us is far larger than most people are permitted to see: (T)here’s also a big difference between being affluent, even very affluent, and having the kind of wealth
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Clemente is the latest to point out how the Trump Republicans’ tax cut scheme served only to further enrich the already-wealthy. And Bess Levin discusses the average one-cent bonus to workers that resulted from billions poured into corporate coffers. – George Monbiot
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Simon Enoch examines Scott Moe’s bait-and-switch when it comes to carbon taxes, including his utter refusal to offer any other plan for province-wide emission reductions as a substitute for consumer-based carbon pricing. And Aaron Wherry points out how any carbon tax falls
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Will McMartin writes that if we needed more evidence that Jason Kenney’s trickle-down economics are nothing but a scam to concentrate more wealth in the hands of the rich, British Columbia’s own moves in the same direction produced none of the promised economic
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right to housing is met regardless of whether one’s community is urban or rural: While the trigger events that cause homelessness
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Borosage discusses why we shouldn’t let conveniently one-sided calls for civility silence debate over progressive possibilities. And Alex Ballingall reports on the affordability anxiety which demands an effective political response rather than a contemptuous dismissal: In a memo outlining the results,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Truth Is Out There
Actually, it is much closer than that, hiding in plain sight. Recommend this Post
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: jackie robinson: a biography
I finished reading this fine biography a while ago, but I’ve been having trouble writing about it. It was very good. If some parts were a bit too detailed for me (which is bound to happen if a biography is comprehensive), parts were thrilling, fascinating, sad, and very moving. There
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Michael Mikulewicz and Tahseen Jafry discuss the responsibility wealthy countries bear for increasingly severe weather events – as well as the best way to start bearing an appropriate share of the resulting human and economic costs: In all this inequality, the world’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alastair Sharp reports on the massive sums of money spent by oil barons in an attempt to undermine climate action. And Kyla Mandel reports on the Trump administration’s willingness to allow the oil industry to threaten drinking water by failing to update decades-old
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Linda Givetash discusses how the consequences of climate breakdown include impending water shortages in the UK. But rather than recognizing and acting on that danger, Theresa May’s Conservatives are looking at Brexit as an excuse to do even less to protect the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ahmed Sati offers some important – if belated – recognition of the need to fight against exclusionary bigotry. Jessica Davis focuses on the particular urgency in addressing right-wing terrorism. Thomas Woodley comments on the importance of having our political leaders do their
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ghastly Bigot and the Egg Boy
Fraser Anning is an Australian Senator and an avowed bigot.He has railed against women's rights and gay rights, and other progressive causes. But he saves most of his venom for Muslims.He has called for Australia to prevent them from entering the country, as part of what he calls the "final solution" to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Mitrovica gives due credit to Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott for showing there’s some honour to be found in Canadian politics – though the Libs’ subsequent loyalty tests have made it all too clear how limited that is. And Alan Freeman warns
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