The stepped-up authoritarian, anti-democratic manner in which Stephen Harper has conducted himself since obtaining his Parliamentary majority nine months ago raises serious concerns about how far right he is planning to push the country in his effort to forever change the face of Canada. Harper hates many things about Canada –
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WTF? A Poem?
WTF? A bunch of racist sexist homophobic nutbarsGOP nazis spreading shit like this is somehow okay in the land of the free, home of the brave? Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) pretends to prevent race-based abortions, steals from the civil rights … Continue reading →
Continue readingExcited Delirium: A Good Interpretation of Herr Harper’s Retirement Plans
The NDP nail it when describing choices the Cons are making for us.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: If Davos Isn’t About Capitalism, What’s Stephen Harper All About?
Stephen Harper vs raging grannies. This is what Conservatives and capitalism are all about? Bullies and braggarts?
Continue readingThe Gingrich who stole Christmas: fire all government employees with liberal views
This is so perfectly representative of the right-wing mind. So fearful of freedom of thought and progress of any kind, the reactionary right-wing mind would rather not just silence liberal thought but obliterate it any way it can. This statement by Newt Gingrich deserves an award for bald-faced authoritarianism and
Continue readingOn “fascism” in the U.S.
Paul Street on why the U.S. is not a “fascist” state: Even if real historical fascism could be translated across times and place to the modern U.S. it would be largely redundant for America’s powers that be. The American elite already gets the basic regressive and authoritarian outcomes of fascism
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Global Research ’2011 Year of the Dupe’: An Awesome Read
Read ‘2011 Year of the Dupe’ by Global Research. You’ll enjoy it and appreciate some truth for a change.
Continue readingkirbycairo: Fascism, a Liberal Party Legacy. . .
There is no question that the Harper government is a de facto fascist organization. I refer you to this excellent outline of what constitutes fascism in case you are so hopelessly naive or blindly partisan that you don’t know what is going on. However, as bad as this government is,
Continue readingExcited Delirium: A Sad Day For The World
Under Barack Obama, the US taken a definitive step into the ugly world of fascism now that the National Defense Authorization Act is now law.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Dec 9 2011 Excited Delirium Updates
An array of stories related to ‘excited delirium’.
Continue readingLeftist debate on politics and power
A fascinating exchange of ideas on, amongst other things, the limits of the Occupy movement and the need to explore ways to bring about change of (not in) the system through the exercise of political power. Protests alone are an important start but, according to expert leftists and activists will
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Stephen Harper Inches Canada Even Closer Toward a Dictatorship
Within weeks of being elected in 2006, Stephen Harper limited access to his government, by both the media and the public. He closed down a searchable database that provided easier access to information, and forbid any questioning of his ministers, without his approval, and even then questions had to be
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base of support. What is needed now, I believe, is to further clarify and…
Continue reading"Warfare by any other means"
Isn’t this what fascists do?Queen’s University Professor Ned Franks used the term on Tuesday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) imposed closure on its controversial 100-page omnibus crime bill and Conservative MPs on t…
Continue readingFourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
Rense.com lists 14 points identifying fascism. How many can you identify as those belonging to Harper’s Conservatives?Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indones…
Continue readingYork professor hit with bogus anti-Semitism charge. It’s getting out of hand, folks. Bring on McCarthy.
This is one sick story. A prof made the following statement: “‘All Jews should be sterilized’ would be an example of an unacceptable and dangerous opinion”. One student jumped on the line from professor Cameron Johnston, who is Jewish, telegraphing the…
Continue readingThwap on "Islamicism"
thwap’s schoolyard: “Islamicism”:Every now and then I’ll make an observation about Harper and his continuing stupidification of Canada, but really, when the thwapster brings his A game, no one does this better.Heh. “Looking at them like they puked.” Pe…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ford Nation planning to fill city boards with unqualified conservative cronies
Toronto News: Ford accused of stacking public appointments – thestar.comEarly this year, we saw Case Ootes appointed to completely replace the TCHC board, and then Gordon Chong (part of Rob Ford’s transition team) was appointed to to a job for $100,000…
Continue readingTerahertz: The limits of Godwin’s Law
Godwin’s law, simply stated, is that any internet debate will eventually decay into one side making a reference to Nazis, the Hitler, or the Holocaust, and at that point loses the debate. This works fine for discussions of creationism, free speech, and even libertarianism, but when discussing far-right political extremists, it can potentially be a […]
Continue readingRedBedHead: Norway: Terrible Side-Effect of Islamophobia
The horror, tragedy and seeming madness of the killing spree in Norway are almost impossible to imagine. There is a temptation to focus on the mourning and solidarity with people in Norway and to resist analysis as something cold and foreign to the hum…
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