Richard Hughes- Political Blogger John Pilger’s thorough examination of fascism from the German Nazis Holocaust through to the US led attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Kosovo,Vietnam, and the sorry list goes on. Read about President Obama’s Tuesday ‘CIA’ kill list, the tie in with the evolution of US backed radical
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Alberta Diary: Advice to Canadian politicians and media: Proceed with caution on your support for Ukraine’s rebels
Anti-Government Ukrainians prepare to fight police in Kiev. Below: Rioters throw gasoline bombs at police in Ukraine; Alberta Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. (Wikimedia photos.) You can bet money that when trouble is brewing abroad things are always far more complicated than local enthusiasts for one side or the other make
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Charles Campbell discusses Robert Reich’s work to highlight the importance of a fair and progressive tax system. And while Lawrence Martin is right to lament the systematic destruction of Canada’s public revenue streams under the Libs and Cons alike, his fatalistic view
Continue readingThe New York Times bashes Canada’s science-bashing
Is it just my imagination or is Canada’s international reputation slipping into the sewer? The question seemed particularly pertinent this morning as I read an editorial in the New York Times Sunday Review entitled “Silencing Scientists.” I don’t have to tell you whose scientists they are referring to. It’s a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The New York Times Goes After the Harper Regime
Uh oh. It looks like Stephen Harper has been exposed. He's been trying to fool the Americans into thinking he's a REAL environmentalist, so Obama will give him his precious Keystone pipeline. But being called a tongue biter, or a muzzler, by the New York Times, isn't going to help.Read
Continue readingMcCain answers Putin—great stuff!
I love it—war with words rather than guns. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times laying out his views on international law and gently chiding Barack Obama for his “American exceptionalism.” Now John McCain, Senator from Arizona, has answered Putin in kind—and
Continue readingDid Putin really write that?
I’ve always thought of Vladimir V. Putin as an amoral ex-KGB thug. And I still do. But I have to admit he wrote a rather progressive op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday. Overlook a belittling of Syrians’ desire for democracy, a fudge about who used the poison
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A True Gateway Drug
For those who believe in the virtues of unfettered capitalism, you might want to read up on how teens and pre-teens are now ingesting nicotine, many for the first time, thanks to the diabolical marketing of e-cigarettes to them. Available in flavours that include bubblegum, cherry and strawberry, the lure
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Immigrants: 70,000 People Tell The New York Times To Drop The I-Word [VIDEO]
We recommend:New York Times reconsidering the term ‘illegal immigrant’Associated Press Ditches “Illegal Immigrant”. And A Lesson For Jason KenneyFukushima’s victims show why Harper must update nuclear liability lawCanada, immigration raids and deportations are not entertainment!Jason Kenney: Thank Me For Cutting Refugee Health Benefits The post Immigrants: 70,000 People Tell
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: New York Times reconsidering the term ‘illegal immigrant’
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week, the Associated Press ditched the demeaning and exclusionary term “illegal immigrant”. Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in 2011, responded with: “It was inevitable. It was just a matter of time.” The New York Times called the
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Redford’s Keystone Ad in the New York Times: The St Patrick’s Day Blunder
So it’s come to this has it? Premier Redford has officially abdicated responsibility for the Canadian natural resource strategy to her communications director, Stefan Baranski, who persuaded Ms Redford to place an ad in today’s New York Times. The ad, entitled Keystone XL: The Choice of Reason, was meant
Continue reading350 or bust: The Happiness Game
“The essence of the philosophy of Gross National Happiness is the peace and happiness of our people and the security and sovereignity of our nation” The Centre For Bhutan Studies, http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com There’s not much good news for a climate activist these days, other than the awakening of indigenous people around
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Paywalls: a real ‘fiscal cliff’ for a plunging news industry
You’d have to be as rich as these well-dressed young readers to manage multiple newspaper subscriptions online! Below: P.T. Barnum with Commodore Nutt, the well-known newspaper paywall technology entrepreneur. Warning: potential profits may be smaller than they appear in newspaper publishers’ rear-view mirrors. Beneath Barnum and Nutt: some comments from
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: A Christmas Story Reprinted Just Because
Merry Christmas Everyone! I wanted to share this wonderful story that a friend sent to me this Christmas night. It seems just right for anyone who cares for someone they love and seeks meaning in the experience. I wish all my readers health, resilience, a strong sense of hope and
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: How To Live Without Irony: Just Ask a Caregiver
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A day or two ago, I was driving along the highway enroute to visit Nicholas, my young man who lives in a truly cozy and pleasant care home. Nick is 24 and has severe cerebral palsy as well as a myriad of other complicated medical …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Thomas Friedman on What Being Pro-Life Should Really Mean
Still convalescing from food-poisoning, I realized today that my re-entry into regular blogging will likely be slower than I had anticipated. Nonetheless, as the situation has permitted, I have been spending some time getting caught up in my newspaper reading, and would like to recommend a fine piece by Thomas
Continue readingIn This Corner: Tuesday with the Sunday New York Times, all three pounds of it.
Did you know that you can get the Sunday New York Times delivered to your door for about $26 a month? Neither did I, until my dad pointed out an ad in the Globe and Mail with the offer. Anyway, dad suggested we give it a try for a while,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: The Globe and Mail joins the cabin boys – deceitful blind quotes come to Canada
Aspiring to be a cabin boy to the big shots, an unnamed Globe and Mail reporter scans the horizon for news. Actual Globe reporters may not be as snappily dressed as illustrated, or willing to climb as high for a story. Below: Bob Garfield. The Globe and Mail wants to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It is a Long Fracking Road From Heaven To Shell!
Richard Hughes Political Blogger I have been caught napping over the degree and scope of the “Fracking” being done and projected in North Eastern BC. It is easy to lose focus, I mean it is way up there somewhere. Never mind the stories, accusations, suspicions, fears that follow and precede
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: A "War on Shale Gas"?
Since late 2009, there’s been a slowly-growing wave of attacks from the unconventional oil and gas industry on media outlets that cover the controversies surrounding hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and other shale gas practices. Reporters who write for publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Reuters to the New York Times have
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