George Monbiot – Unmasking the Press: ‘via Blog this’ Too bad about Hitchens, but the best thing I’ve found about the corporate media this week comes from Monbiot. Everything you need to know, including the essential 99 percent versus 1 per cent dynamic, is in here. The class-warfare element is
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Lt. John Pike, UC Davis Police: Little Eichmann of the Day
Time to revive a dormant feature. Here’s the tough guy, pepper-spraying unarmed students. Can’t help but notice the contrast: students sitting peacefully and silently get pepper-sprayed in the face. Students trashing their campus and destroying vehicles because a child-rapist football coach got fired get … a stern frown? Full story
Continue readingThe Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe?
It’s a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What’s capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than gauging what people are talking about. (24/7 on Ki…
Continue readingThoughts for Remembrance Day, and Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) figures out the #Occupy movement
It’s a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong.This little corner’s been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it’s gotten the Masters of the Universe sufficiently rattled, they’re cranking up …
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Rich Have Declared That The Poor Are The Enemy
When President Obama proposed higher taxes on the very wealthy this week, Republicans were apoplectic. Once again, they screamed, “Class Warfare.” A look at the numbers exposes that lie. Paul Krugman writes in this morning’s New York Times that:D…
Continue readingThe ‘debt crisis’ and the undermining of democracy in Europe
While CK’s on the road, she’s invited me to blog and cross-post here. So I’m recycling this tasty little item, which I found via @NaomiAKlein. (They say she’s polarizing … )
A sample:
Vast swathes of public policy have already been closed off and rendered inaccessible to conventional democratic processes. Anyone who’s seen . . . → Read More: The ‘debt crisis’ and the undermining of democracy in Europe
Continue readingDemocracy withers away: Europe’s wakeup call – Le Monde diplomatique | via @NaomiAKlein
Serge Halimi: Europe’s wakeup call – Le Monde diplomatique – English editionWhen the balance that keeps labour and capital in relative equilibrium gets trashed (or more likely in this context, sold off to private investors), the political and so…
Continue readingKrugman: The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling – NYTimes.com
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling – NYTimes.comOK, can we do a couple of things for starters?1. Lose the illusion that Obama’s got any balls, or that he’s in any way “progressive,” or that there’s much substantive institutional and policy differ…
Continue readingFar-right hatred is a sickness, but it’s a symptom, not the cause | #Norway
Late-night submissions on a heavy Sunday night …I thought I’d seen, heard and read it all by now.That worthless piece of shit used dum-dum bullets. The cherry on the shit sundae.Another sick, cruel piece of shit says those kids all but deserved what …
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Good Old Fashioned Class Warfare
While many members of the chattering class have heralded Stephen Harper’s election as the beginning of a bright and beautiful future, Linda McQuaig has always seen it for what it is: a concerted and vengeful attempt to turn back the clock.In today’s To…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Sunday Thoughts
Well the filibuster is finished and the Conservatives have gotten their way. There is nothing new in that. It is something we will have to face over the next few years. If this government wants to do something, it will do it. Still, the opposition did …
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Conservative Economics
What would you do if you had a shaky economy with not great employment numbers and you want to balance the books? Well if you are the Harper government, you start by laying off 6000 people. Meanwhile, the owner class is doing very well, thanks very muc…
Continue readingThe corporate media’s class-based agenda
I thought about a stronger title for this post, but that might have required a nasty loaded word like, oh … “bias.”
Anyhow, this isn’t intended to be a factual statement, but off the top of your heads, can anyone recall a story about the NDP over …
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