Fascism today doesn’t look exactly as it did when it spread through Germany and Italy in the 30s but the foundational elements are alive and
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – The Siren Call of Identity Politics
What is wrong with the whole barrel of hoopla that is identity politics. Love the Marx reference to weaving flowers/chains reference. http://waragainstintelligence.tumblr.com/post/149879735380/identity-has-become-the-axis-of-so-much-university
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ann Pettifor discusses the trend toward financialization which has led to regular economic disasters – and suggests the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matthew Yglesias examines the direct effects of social programs, and finds there’s every reason to invest more
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Attack on Gay-Straight Alliances Continues
Last week the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) brought a court application challenging the constitutionality of changes to the School Act which are intended
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Amy Remeikis reports on new research showing how educational inequality translates into an even wider economic gap.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Ten proposals from the 2018 Alberta Alternative Budget
The 2018 Alberta Alternative Budget (AAB) was released yesterday—it can be downloaded here. An opinion piece I wrote about the AAB appeared yesterday in both
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is Marxism?
In case you were unfamiliar. 🙂
Continue readingWe Pivot: “Defend Lives, Reform Laws.”
We need artists, geniuses, radicals and random brilliance to disarm society and its pathologies. Normal doesn’t work anymore. “Some of the negative comments claim what
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Amarillo Police Shoot the “Good Guy With A Gun”
This is pretty much how you could imagine things would go wrong if you were caught disarming a crazed gunman before or as police arrive
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Form is Harder than Formalism – The Wasteland that is the 5 Paragraph Essay.
I’ve written more than my fair share of five paragraph essays. Graded a few in my time as well. It would be nice if
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Rick Smith writes about the Filthy Five loopholes taking the most money out of Canada’s public coffers for
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Panel discussion at federal NDP policy convention
Yesterday I spoke on a panel discussion on economic inequality, along with Andrew Jackson and Armine Yalnizyan. We were guests at the federal NDP’s policy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to how the promises which won Scott Moe the Saskatchewan Party’s leadership will leave him with some difficult decisions
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On stopping the cuts
I’m less surprised than some by Scott Moe’s ascent to the Saskatchewan Party’s leadership in an extremely close, four-way leadership race. But it will particularly
Continue readingWe Pivot: White Men Need Intersectionality Expertise, Oluo 6/18
Intersectionality needs to become the most understood word as we wind down this decade. I’ve been thinking that for a few years now, but chapter
Continue readingScripturient: Does poetry make things happen in 2018?
I was thinking about how little poets seem to matter to modern political administrations. Maybe to modern society as a whole. Their light has, it
Continue readingWe Pivot: The Racism-Power Intersection, Day 3/18
Let’s get into chapter 2 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race! It’s been hard in recent year to talk about reverse
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Marty Warren highlights why Tim Hortons workers – and other people facing precarious and low-paying work – need
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Parkin writes that job numbers inflated by part-time employment shouldn’t distract us from the consumer debt
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