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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.
– Naomi Klein points out in the wake of London’s riots that there’s one kind of socially destructive looting that’s been rewarded rather than punished:
They are just about lawless kids taking advantage of a sit…
Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.
– Chantal Hebert offers up the definitive response to the Cons, Libs and media outlets still going out of their way to attack the NDP for winning support in Quebec:
Given the context, to retroactively portray La…
Death By Trolley: Why Obama and Democrats are Less Trustworthy than Bush and Republicans
Why a progressive blogger trusts Republicans more than Democrats and Obama to follow through on their commitments.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.
– Graham Thomson notes that for all the permutations and combinations that have developed among Alberta’s opposition parties over the past few years, the NDP’s strong principles have positioned it nicely in the…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Floyd Norris’ column on the gap between stagnant wages and soaring corporate profits. But let’s add Digby’s take as to what we can expect if the corporate sector gets its way:”I’ve never seen labor markets t…
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Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Tom Mills challenges the Cons to show any job creation whatsoever as a result of their non-stop corporate tax slashing:The thing is, if corporate tax cuts really do create jobs, Flaherty should be able to dem…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- L. Aaron Wright nicely contrasts the fabricated hysteria over Nycole Turmel against the choices of the Libs and Cons:Where was the outrage when Stephen Harper tried to recruit Mario Dumont of the ADQ in Quebe…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
Kenneth Rogoff describes the type of policy needed to push developed economies out of their current slump:too many policy-makers have relied on the belief that, at the end of the day, this is just a deep recession that can be subdued by a generous help…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Martin Patriquin offers up the definitive response to the pearl-clutching over Nycole Turmel’s Bloc membership (italics in original, bold added):(H)ere’s the wee nuance that seems lost on the rest of…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Linda McQuaig notes that the same financial actors who caused the global economic meltdown that’s being used as an excuse for austerity measures around the world are themselves making out like bandits – even tho…
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Assorted content to start your long weekend.- Thomas Walkom highlights the message being sent to students as to what workers should expect in the years to come. And it’s well worth reflecting on whether the problem lies precisely with the politicians s…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: June 22, 2011
The second-last day of debates in this spring’s session dealt mostly with Bruce Hyer’s motion on small business. But lest anybody think there would be agreement on the details of an issue where every party supported the motion itself (resulting in a ra…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- David Olive chimes in on the toxic effects of inequality:Many of us did not engage in “excess,” yet are struggling to make ends meet. The real story is where did all the money go that has been generated b…
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jeffrey Simpson laments the Cons’ evidence-averse crime policies. But it’s worth noting that Simpson is off base on one point: much as he assumes that years of spin from the Cons and the media alike have pus…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
If there’s any good news in the report that it’s apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it’s that it should be highly entertaining to see where the trend goes next. I for one look forward to…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don’t do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the TILMA’s regressive trade rules are spreading across Canada in other forms. For further reading…- I’ve posted several times before about just some of the problems with the TILMA and the arguments made in favour of it, while also compa…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeffrey Simpson has a bit of trouble recognizing that inequality applies at all rungs of the income ladder, not merely as a matter of resolving poverty. But otherwise his latest is well worth a read:Th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On correlations
This summer has seen plenty of crowing from the right over a connection between “economic freedom” (as defined by various corporate think tanks) and GDP levels. But for those of us who see obvious problems with treating GDP as the sole measure of a soc…
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