In the video, produced by The Intercept, the award-winning Canadian social activist and bestselling author says though Donald Trump occupies the most powerful office on earth, his shock doctrine-oriented “wildly pro-corporate policies” can be resisted. The post Watch Naomi Klein Explain “How to Resist Trump’s Shock Doctrine” appeared first on
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Deeply Disturbing Loyalty Test
Donald Trump is still claiming that he did not try to force James Comey to sign a loyalty oath. And that Comey is the liar not him. But yesterday we got an idea of the kind of loyalty Boss Trump demands from those who work for him. And not only did it
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the True Meaning of Idiot
He's desperately trying to restrain himself. His lawyers have warned him that his tweets could be used against him one day.And could be the difference between the White House and the Big House.But ever since James Comey called him a liar, in front of a television audience of about 19 million
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Return of Stuff Happens, week 21: Alberta’s legal disgrace
This week we heard one of those stories that just makes you shake your head (if it hasn’t already lowered in shame) and wonder how this kind of thing can happen. Here’s the shocking story. An Aboriginal woman (there is a publication ban on her name, a typically Canadian thing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David MacDonald discusses the need to start tackling some of Canada’s most expensive and least justifiable tax handouts to the rich: The richest 10 per cent of Canadians enjoy an average of $20,500 a year in tax exemptions, credits, and other loopholes.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: How would Harper have handled Trump?
When listening to Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland give her very important speech on the new world order, there was one disturbing thought. It was a silly question as to how would our previous prime minister have handled the situation? The one thing for sure was that Stephen Harper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Donald Trump Just Too Stupid To Be President?
I must admit that when I saw Donald Trump holding a rare news conference yesterday I was absolutely shocked.Not just by the way he looked, like a man about to keel over.But also by the crazy things he was saying.Or blowing out of his pie hole.Read more »
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Owen Jones writes that UK Labour’s bold and progressive platform was crucial to its improved electoral results. Bhaksar Sunkara rightly sees Labour’s campaign – in both its firm defence of the common good, and its determination to reach young and marginalized voters rather
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Is this why Trump won?
Here’s one analysis of why Trump won and the Clinton Democrats lost: Why? Because Trump’s brand of populism — and more importantly, that of working-class whites — differs in important ways from the populism of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. While the populism espoused by Sanders and Warren is economic,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Day of the Comey
I'm sure Donald Trump's White House minions are doing their best to prepare him for James Comey's Senate hearing today.But it won't be easy, because it's going to be a big event.So while Trump is threatening to live tweet the hearing, other Republicans are doing their best to discredit Comey.By running
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump, James Comey, and the Coming War With Iran
I can only imagine what kind of state Donald Trump must be in as James Comey, the FBI director he fired, prepares to testify tomorrow.But it can't be very pretty.Not when Boss Trump probably thought he had "fixed" the Comey problem… So now he's hopping mad…Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Trump’s Latest Twitter Orgy Be The Beginning Of The End?
Donald Trump has had many bad Twitter moments, that have demeaned him and his country, and shocked the world.But that usually end up with Trump staring into a pool of excrement and liking what he sees.But his trip to Europe and the Middle East exhausted him.The idea that James Comey
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Mental illness the go-to excuse for white men committing acts of terrorism against people of color
The label “mental illness”, when referred to white men who’ve committed acts of terrorism against people of color, downplays racism and elicits sympathy for the bigoted murderer, argues Zenobia Jeffries, YES! Magazine’s racial justice associate editor. The post Mental illness the go-to excuse for white men committing acts of terrorism
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Return of Stuff Happens, week 20: RIP, USA
Donald Trump, the Leader of the Free World crown, officially relinquished the title on Thursday when he announced that the U.S. – the second-biggest polluter in the world –would withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Accord. In stepping aside from the Leadership of the Free World position, the U.S. has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Man Who Would Poison the World
I could barely watch the coverage of this latest terrorist attack. It was all so insane and so cowardly, and I felt I'd seen it all before. And what made it even more disgusting was to see Donald Trump try to turn that tragedy into bigotry, for crass political purposes.President Donald Trump
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the End of the (American) World As We Know It.
A few months ago the big German magazine Der Spiegel ran this cover of Donald Trump.With the title "The End of the World, As We Know it."And yesterday when the flaming orange proclaimed that the U.S. is pulling out of the Paris Accord, it was shared on social media all
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Full text of Trump speech announcing US withdrawal from Paris climate accord
Announcing the United States’ unprecedented withdrawal from Paris climate accord, Donald Trump cited the “draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country.” The post Full text of Trump speech announcing US withdrawal from Paris climate accord appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Day of Judgement
As you may know, today is the day Donald Trump will announce whether he will pull the United States out of the Paris Accord. Momentous arguments inside the West Wing over the future of the Paris climate accord became a messy public spectacle on Wednesday, with some aides saying that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Most Miserable Homecoming
Donald Trump may be back in the White House, after his disastrous tour of the Middle East and Europe. But he's not a happy man.He has "family problems." Jared Kushner deserves a bit of sympathy. All his life he’s been serving his father or father-in-law. All his career he’s been thrust
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Rhys Kesselman challenges the Fraser Institute’s grossly distorted conception of “tax competitiveness”: Even with lower overall tax burdens, many Americans bear much heavier non-tax burdens than their Canadian counterparts. These costs can be so large as to swamp any tax-rate differentials between the
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