…and I don’t mean sodomy in the fun frolicky sense of the world. What I mean is that they’ve agree that the deficit will not be “fixed” by raising taxes on the wealthy – whose tax breaks (along with multiple unwinnable and expensive wars & a defe…
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Art Threat: Blue Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Strip
An award-winning 2002 documentary on Gaza from filmmaker James Longley is now available on line.
Continue readingRedBedHead: Rupert Murdoch, Friend Of Israel
Well this article is an interesting addition to the swirl of debate and exposé that’s happening around Rupert Murdoch. The attached article is from J-Wire and is written by Isi Leibler. As all this scandal and humiliation was unfolding, I hadn’t consi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Does This Sound Like a Democracy to You?
Imagine our Parliament enacting a law that an individual or organization proposing a boycott could be sued for compensation by any individual or institution facing possible damage and without requirement for evidence of actual damage or loss.Welcome to…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Israel Attacks Free Speech To Defend Democracy
When is an attack on democracy not an attack on democracy? When the government says that they are defending democracy, of course. That seems to be the thinking in Israel’s higher circles in any case as a bill moves towards becoming law that will ban Is…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- He’s a bit too shy in pointing out exactly how thoroughly the Cons’ position on the Canadian Wheat Board has been rebuked in CWB elections for ages. But Bruce Johnstone nicely describes the PR blitz designed…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Taking Sides In Syria
The article below is a reprint of a longer article by Simon Assaf, a British-Lebanese socialist, that will appear in the upcoming issue of the British magazine Socialist Review. It’s an excellent overview of the history of Syria from its founding foll…
Continue readingRedBedHead: "Anti-Semitism" Committee A Rearguard Defence Of Israel’s Crimes
It’s nothing new really – the right wing, who can barely make their lips form the words “anti-racism”, spend boatloads of cash to “take a stand” against anti-Semitism. Except that what they’re really defending are the odious actions and policies of the…
Continue readingAnd so it goes: Yahoos on the prairies.
I suppose some folks think that the regina mom is a yahoo cuz she’s shooting off her mouth all the time. Really, she hasn’t had a lot of time for that cuz she has spent the past year and a bit marketing her book of poetry, This hot place from B.C. to Ontario. (And she […]
Continue readingWhat would questioning disguised pacifists accomplish anyway? The Gaza flotilla’s mission is a humanitarian mission first and foremost
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr. Hitchens, the old fashioned way, to ask him the …
Continue readingBeing Oppositional, ‘Socialist’ Filibuster Drinking Games, Pandering to the Misinformed, Attempting To Debunk Some Myths
Finally, I post my thoughts about the NDP filibuster of Stevie Spiteful’s draconian Back to work legislation of locked out Canada Post workers and the press coverage it has received, along with many Canadians’ attitude toward it. I’m not only concerned at Canadians’ attitudes toward Bill c-6, but also all the misinformation that . . . → Read More: Being Oppositional, ‘Socialist’ Filibuster Drinking Games, Pandering to the Misinformed, Attempting To Debunk Some Myths
Continue readingRedBedHead: Freedom For Palestine: Music Video
Any song that’s pro-Palestinian and makes Glen Beck cry on TV is right on with me. At a time when Toronto city council is debating whether or not it’s discrimination – against Jews!? – to say that Israel’s practice of isolating, segregating and repress…
Continue readingArt Threat: Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan’s Island.
Continue readingStephen Harper’s moral relativism
In Stephen Harper’s speech to the recent Conservative convention, referring to foreign policy, he announced that the Conservatives moral stance would be clear. “Moral ambiguity, moral equivalence are not options,” he stated, “they are dangerous illusio…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Israel Is No Different Than Syria
Israel likes to tout itself as the “plucky little democracy” in the Middle East, and as an island of European-style democracy besieged by a sea of dictatorships and dark, Arabic hordes. Besides the (fading) appeal to the oppressions Jews suffered in Eu…
Continue readingBaird gives Washington the green light by backing Obama’s 1967 proposal
Well if you were expecting to see more unity and a more streamlined process of decision making from the Harper government, you can forget about it.
The new Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada does in fact stand with U.S. preside…
Continue readingRedBedHead: When The Ex-Mossad Chief Thinks You’re Crazy…
This article in the New York Times is interesting. The recently retired head of the Israeli Mossad (i.e. CIA) is using his newfound civilian freedoms to run around and say that Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak are, basically, f*…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Conservative Bloggers Now Detest John Baird
When US President Barack Obama suggested that a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis be based on the borders of the “1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states”, Canadian Co…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": One Government
Two foreign policies, one for Jewish voters and one for non-Jewish voters. Isn’t it fun when a government mixes domestic politics with foreign policy?
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Canada supports 1967 borders after all despite blocking this position at G8
Faced with significant pressure, Harper’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has affirmed that Canada does, in fact, support Obama’s position of using the 1967 borders with land swaps as a basis for a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine. In …
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