It couldn't have been a more revolting spectacle. Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand called to testify before a House of Commons committee.To talk about the foul voter suppression bill known as the Fair Elections Act, and the Harper regime's attempts to muzzle him.Only to have the Cons try to
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Future Of The CPC
Andrew Coyne made an excellent point in his column about the Manning Networking Conference that the Manning Centre is hosting in Ottawa: So this is what a Conservative convention looks like. After that bizarre lockdown in Calgary last fall – reporters harassed and penned in at every turn, the prime minister’s
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Ukraine’s fascist ‘heroes’ and a bleak new dawn
Beneath: Banner of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera hangs in Kiev City Hall / Yulia Tymoshenko The forcible removal of Victor Yanukovych’s regime in what has been likened to a “fascist putsch” has led to an unstable and potentially dangerous situation in the Ukraine. Terms such as “democratic revolution” used by
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Ultra-nationalists and fascist thugs – tools of imperialist designs in Ukraine
The protests in the Ukraine that began last November in Kiev’s Independence Square – the Maidan – were staged to protest president Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to back out of a plan to join a trade agreement with the EU, in preference for joining the Eurasian Customs Union. As with most
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Swiss vote on immigration boosts far-right parties through rest of Europe | World news | The Observer
Swiss vote on immigration boosts far-right parties through rest of Europe | World news | The Observer. When Christian Ragger heard that the Swiss had voted to cap immigration into their country in a referendum last weekend, he was “deeply impressed”, he says. “All over the world, immigration is protected
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Jimbo Flaherty, and the Fascist Pigs
It had to be one of the most bizarre sights I have ever seen in Question Period. And yet another sign that the Con regime is running out of steam, and Stephen Harper is losing his marbles. For there was Jimbo Flaherty, on the day after his budget, sitting like
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: … It Gets Darker
A break from analyzing Bill C-23 today, but not a break from covering the darkness that is Harper’s shadow. Today’s instalment comes in the form of the obviously politically motivated witch-hunt that the CRA is engaging in with environmental organizations in this country. This isn’t particularly new, the Conservatives have
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Putin’s Russia: Where Gay People Are Hunted Like Animals
Well by now I'm sure you've all heard the latest horror story to emerge from Putin's Russia.The story about the brutish Mayor of Sochi Putingrad and his claim that there are no gay people in his corrupt village. And had a good laugh, like I did, when some of them were
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much) who run around equating all forms of left wing politics from liberalism, social democrats and other soft-socialists to full bore
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much) who run around equating all forms of left wing politics from …
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Why Do Conservatives Accuse Everyone Of Marxism & Nazism So Much?
Anyone familiar with politics online has encountered the very common strain of right winger (some are “libertarians” instead of conservatives, but I didn’t want to burden the title too much) who run around equating all forms of left wing politics from liberalism, social democrats and other soft-socialists to full bore
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Papers, Citizen!
As if it couldn’t get any worse, the ridiculous paranoia of the Harper regime has surfaced once more in the wake of a sneaky, but peaceful protest in BC. Senator Runciman wants a law so that protests like this can’t happen again. “People who sneak into these kinds of events,
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Of "Porn Filters" and Agendas
Remember July this year, when Joy Smith stood up in Canada’s Parliament and suggested we should follow the UK’s example and implement a “porn filter”? Well, Cameron’s filter is about to go live, and as one might have expected, it’s blocking a heck of a lot more than just “adult
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: More on Baird and Iran
People, even the media who watch such things, seem mystified by the Harper Government(tm) stance on Iran. It’s no big surprise, really. When I took this blog out from under wraps in May, I wrote a lengthy essay describing the “Modern Fascism” that Harper has been cultivating. On foreign affairs,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: NAFTA, “Free Trade” and the TPP: Fast-Track To Full Corporate Rule
“Twenty years ago, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into law. At the time, advocates painted a rosy picture of booming U.S. exports creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and economic development in Mexico, which would bring the struggling country in line with its wealthier northern
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: The left in Greece must rise up against Golden Dawn | Costas Lapavitsas | Comment is free | theguardian.com
The left in Greece must rise up against Golden Dawn | Costas Lapavitsas | Comment is free | theguardian.com. Greece – and the rise of Golden Dawn – is an extreme parable of what has happened to many developed countries since the global crisis broke out in 2007. The policies
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Government Crackdown on Golden Dawn Won’t Defeat Greek Fascism
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10812 Costas Lapavitsas on why the state crackdown on Golden Dawn fails to address the basis of their popular support. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Extreme Right, Fascism, Greece
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Norway’s disturbing lurch to the right | Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Norway’s disturbing lurch to the right | Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Comment is free | theguardian.com. The results from today’s Norwegian elections are more or less clear: with some 26.8% of the vote, the Conservative party (Høyre) is poised to head Norway’s next coalition government. The first thing to note
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: US government shutdown, and other fairy tales and political theatre
I’m not sure what to make of the hoopla going on in the US right now. I’m inclined to think it’s all just political theatre, as Gerald Celente calls it, designed to distract the people from the real issues – the central one being, who controls the government and the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The deeper reasons for the “war on drugs”
There is a deeper reason for the war on drugs, which is the central reason for the policy, even outweighing profits from private prisons and seizure of property by law enforcement officers, both of which no doubt are also significant and strong motivations for keeping the “war on drugs” going.
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