This: Donald Trump may push through a controversial registry for immigrants from mostly-Muslim countries without seeking congressional approval, a member of his transition team has said. Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and adviser to Mr Trump said the president-elect’s immigration team are drafting executive orders that would allow
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Warren Kinsella: Yassassin
Was listening to Hole on the way in, now listening to London’s Yassassin. I’m still in the mood for grrrl power. We boys mess everything up.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Bertrand Russell writing, years ago, to the fascist Oswald Mosley
…but it could have been written this week to Trump and his cabal. All of us, in this era, will be somehow judged on how we responded to Trump.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Re-take on a US election post I did a few months back
[The Hill Times and Troy Media liked it, so perhaps you will too.] Back in the summer, on our journey stateside, we did Trump sightings. Whenever we’d see a Trump bumper sticker, or billboard, or T-shirt, we’d point it out to each other. “There’s another one,” we’d say. Then we’d
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: President Dumpster, the aftermath
I want to understand why a sexist, racist, fascistic type won, but I still don’t. Like 99 per cent of the planet, I didn’t see it coming, not for a moment. But I sure have been keeping track of what has happened since his victory. Since then, you haven’t had
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 22 years after the publication of Web of Hate
… we, as a society, are dealing with a significant surge in hate crimes in Canada and the United States. I never thought I would again be interviewed about Web of Hate, but here we are. So, here’s a tired me with CBC’s Ian Hanomansingh, discussing an emboldened far Right
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Team Trump visits Ottawa: a REAL barbaric practice
A couple blocks from where I used to live in Ottawa. (If I hadn’t blocked him, I might even be interested in Norman Spector’s ongoing claim that Team Trump is Zionist.)
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Values: Kellie Leitch made me go back to one of my books
Fight the Right, to be precise. here’s what I found. It’s what Leitch is doing, and with some success, too. “…Conservatives like the ones gathered at the Values Summit believe their values are American values because, well, they are. That’s just the way it goes, and if you don’t like it,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Donald Trump fans in Ottawa-Vanier
…where, unhelpfully for my good friend Kid Kodak, a by-election is taking place this week. Oops! I think the PCs are going to lose Ottawa Vanier. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/i60Xp1D1WD — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 14, 2016
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Found posted just East of my neighbourhood this weekend
The toxin spreads.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Justin Trudeau: the last voice for sanity in the West?
When the Trump “presidency” begins in earnest, I expect this kind of support for Justin Trudeau to grow even more. He will be seen as a voice of sanity in the West. He will be a bulwark against the chaos and hate that Trump will stir up. As all of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The most powerful unelected people on Earth
That, usually, is what the most senior people around the President of the United States are: more powerful, with more influence, than any elected person anywhere. That’s no revelation. What is a revelation, however, is that North America’s leading anti-racist organization keeps a file on those same people. And here’s
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Here’s the kind of “working class economic anxiety” I’m getting via email and Twitter
Tons of it. Along with dozens of racist epithets, anti-Semitic slurs and suggestions – over and over – that I kill myself. All since Tuesday night. What’s the significance of that night, I wonder?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Guilty Manhattan liberals self-flagellate: stop the presses. Literally.
Well, they may feel compelled to g-drop and rationalize bigotry on a massive scale, but I sure don’t. Racism is racism, whether it emanates from a ballot box or the barrel of a gun. The op-ed contortions in today's @nytimes are pathetic. Racism doesn't need contextualizing, folks. It's still racism,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Before the Trump Dark Ages begin in earnest
…here’s my new credo. Don't tell me to accept the result. Don't tell me it'll be fine. Don't tell me he didn't mean any of it. Don't tell me we should calm down. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 11, 2016
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: SFH defy Trump
Not many nice things were said about the president-elect last night. The best part was when we led the assembled hundred or so in a chant of “f**k Trump.” Wish you’d been there. Now, back to reality – and back to four years of fighting the good fight. If you are
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My first column for CBC: “Electing Donald Trump was America’s way of lashing out”
Right here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My present mood
Race riots. Mass deportations. War. Walls. Klansmen. End of NATO. Economic calamity. Chaos. Ugliness everywhere. Get ready. #uspoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 9, 2016
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