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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Elizabeth Warren reminds us (PDF) that previous trade agreements were packaged with the same promises of labour and environmental standards being used to sell the latest versions – and that there’s been no enforcement whatsoever of the elements of the deals which
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Will McMartin highlights the fact that constant corporate tax slashing has done nothing other than hand ever-larger piles of money to businesses who have no idea what to do with it. But Josh Wingrove reports that Justin Trudeau is looking for excuses
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Still Beating Heart of Progressivism
Not dead yet. The venerable Boston Globe has published an editorial urging a certain American to run for the presidency of the United States of America. The newspaper wants senator Elizabeth Warren to enter the race. …the Democratic Party finds itself with some serious divides that ought to be settled by
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bryce Covert weighs in on the IMF’s latest study showing a connection between stronger trade unions and greater income equality: While it can be hard to say for sure whether the decline in unionization is a direct cause of growing income inequality, they
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Joan Walsh discusses Elizabeth Warren’s work on improving wages and enhancing the strength of workers in the U.S., while Jeremy Nuttall interviews Hassan Yussuff about the labour movement’s work to elect a better government in Canada. – Bob Hepburn argues that getting rid
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Lent highlights the strong majority of respondents in the UK who see the political system as serving the powerful rather than the public. And Elizabeth Warren explains why the same conclusion applies in the U.S., while making the case that there’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Elizabeth Warren Attacks’s America’s ‘Bought & Paid’ For Supreme Court
Former law professor and Senator Elizabeth Warren isn’t pulling any punches when she speaks of America’s highest court: Look at the increasing corporate capture of the federal courts. According to a recent study, the five conservative justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court are in the top ten most pro-corporate
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Elizabeth Warren Speaks
In addressing a recent convention of the AFL-CIO, outspoken U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, about whom I have posted several times, offered some stirring words. Although directed to an American audience, her sentiments are equally applicable here, given the anti-union and anti-people demagoguery and practices of Mr. Harper’s regime at the
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Politician To Respect
Although she is not one of ours, Democratic Senator Elizabethan Warren is one of those rare politicans who commands respect. Calm, even unflappable, and eminently logical, she handles herself with great aplomb in the following video as she defends her efforts to bring back the Glass-Stegall Act, legislation that was
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Elizabeth Warren
With each story that I read about her, my respect for Elizabeth Warren grows. Would that Canada had someone similar to inspire us. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Elizabeth Warren – Calm, Collected, Logical And Reasonable – A Rare Politician
Earlier today, Owen at Northern Reflections, commenting on a piece by Joseph Stiglitz, wrote a post on student debt, a scourge on both sides of the border. Here is a video of Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, for whom I have a great deal of respect, on her proposal for dealing
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Parsing The Rhetoric
Oh, how I do love it when the rhetoric of the right-wing is exposed for what it is: hysterical hyperbole. Watch Robert Reich first as he punctures the myths regarding the ‘dangers’ of raising the minimum wage: The look at Elizabeth Warren’s take on the same topic: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Liberal Party Could Use an Elizabeth Warren or Two
If you want to see the face of progressivism, take a look at Elizabeth Warren. If you want to understand what progressivism in the 21st century is about, listen to her. And then ask yourself why we don’t have that sort of leadership. Heavens to Betsy. Sen. Elizabeth Warren leapt
Continue readingCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: U.S. Election 2012: There Was a War on Women, and the Women Won
If you think the big winners of Tuesday night’s election were Barack Obama and the Democrats, you’re wrong. Journalist, opinion writer, and author of two books on progressive politics, Amanda Marcotte, argues, convincingly, that the big …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Republican Senator Scott Brown Suffering From "Subsidy Amnesia"
Scott-Brown-Campaign-SMS-Marketing1.jpeg With a straight face, Republican Senator Scott Brown told a crowd in Massachusetts this week that “oil companies don’t get subsidies” from the federal government. Brown tells us that, just like other companies, they are able to “take deductions,” but nothing more. The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) was
Continue readingImpolitical: Elizabeth Warren and leaderitis
A very intelligent piece in the NY Times on Elizabeth Warren’s run for Senate and in particular the expectations that are being placed on her: “Heaven Is a Place Called Elizabeth Warren.” I liked this part at the end that is a fair description of an affliction that happens in
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Elizabeth Warren v. Heckler
An angry man confronts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at the outset of a local volunteer meeting in Brockton, Mass. “You’re a socialist whore!” the unemployed Fox News viewer shouted, adding for good measure that her “boss” (presumably President Obama) was … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sticks and Stones…
Emboldened and enraged by the demagogic politics that substitute for reasoned discussion in the United States, an unemployed man is shown misdirecting his anger at Democratic Massachusetts’ Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren in the following video. Calli…
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