It’s a crime against humanity that #BabyJails are not shut down in the USA. The extreme human rights abuses taking place each day are horrifying. Many medical staff are going to need to lose their license and go to jail to come close to delivering justice to the victims. 7/
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mr. Anderson of Cypress Hills-Grasslands
I once sat across a chair circle from this guy because he’s the MP for the area I grew up in. It doesn’t surprise me he’d defend and believe Trump over taking an opportunity to condemn the caging of children. Wow @DavidAndersonSK is such an embarrassment of an MP. #SafeThirdCountry
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Right Now, It’s a Spectator Sport. Before Long It Could Become a Blood Sport.
Trump has people in Canada, Mexico, Japan and Europe a bit worried about how we’ll fare in a trade war with the United States. We’re told we could be heading toward a recession, a drop in GDP of perhaps 2 per cent. Trump’s abuse of America’s traditional allies is small
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Who puts children in cages?Not men assured living wages.A #FightforFifteen?A quaint little dream,While American Dreams shrink in stages.#WhereAreTheChildren?#ChildrenConcentrationCamps.This started when?President Orange Gramps.* *Obama and Bush share some blame. — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) June 18, 2018
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: The Far Right Continues to Embrace Anti-Democratic Ethnic Nationalism and Authoritarianism (With Northern Alliance Cameo)
It has been an interesting week in the news. Donald Trump attacks traditional allies including Canada (specifically the Canadian prime minister) and his supporters in this country eat it up. Some of them have openly advocated for the invasion of the country to remove the Liberal government by force. Others
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Living With Trump in the Age of Entropy. We Have to Figure This Out and Soon.
The Washington Post carried this message of warning from Steve Bannon in February, 2017: Bannon dismissed the idea that Trump might moderate his positions or seek consensus with political opponents. Rather, he said, the White House is digging in for a long period of conflict to transform Washington and upend
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Then Must We Do? Canada’s Place Alongside the United States in Turbulent Times.
Do you ever wonder how close the United States may be to abandoning democracy? Do you ever wonder what that might mean for Canada? Are you familiar with the word, “anschluss”? Even The Economist recently rated the US as a “flawed democracy.” That might have been overly generous. A paper released
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Living in a World Without Rules
The international order is beginning to feel like the League of Nations. Donald Trump wants a “might is right” world and his steel and aluminium tariffs are a ploy to create it. These tariffs, whether by coincidence or design, continue President Trump’s ongoing efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Fight Against Neoliberal Fascism is Anchored in Memory
Fascism today doesn’t look exactly as it did when it spread through Germany and Italy in the 30s but the foundational elements are alive and well around the world today, including the United States of America. Henry Giroux contends the key to beating back modern neo-fascists rests in historical memory.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Should Give Justin a Needed Boost
Trump advisors went on the Sunday morning US talk shows like scalded cats to denounce Justin Trudeau’s handling of the G6+1 leaders summit. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Trudeau’s comments at a press conference after the G-7 amounted to a “betrayal, while Peter Navarro, a Trump trade official,
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There is no proof that Donald Trump is working for Vlad Putin but Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice, writes that Putin couldn’t have wished for a better stooge. Mr. Putin’s objectives are plain: to restore Russia to global greatness at the expense of the United States and to divide
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Imagine a World Where Every Leader Was a Variation of Donald Trump
Donald Trump likes to pretend he’s shaking everything up. In fact he’s tearing everything down and what he can’t tear down his instinct is to bog it down. You could say that he’s the first poster boy for the Age of Entropy. Yesterday I reviewed an article by political scientist
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Liberal Democracy Cannot Survive Undefended.
Since the advent of the neoliberal era, the reign of Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney, liberal democracy has been left to its own devices. The warning sign, the red flag, was the extinction of any meaningful vestige of progressivism from the body politic. The last defender of liberal democracy we knew
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Taking Democracy for Granted. We’re Probably On This Road Too.
Andrew Sullivan has a thought-provoking essay in New York Magazine about how we’re killing off liberal democracy and not just in Poland or Hungary or the United States either. This elite condescension toward challenges to their power stems, philosopher John Gray recently argued, from a fundamental and demonstrably false assumption that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You May Not Like These Odds
The odds aren’t good. Three times out of four, the result is war. Such is the nature of superpower politics. Over the centuries superpowers have come and gone. There have been 16 instances where a dominant power was muscled out by an ascending power. 12 of those ended in war.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Most Countries This Might be Disturbing News. In Canada, Not So Much.
The Trump regime has joined forces with the fossil energy giants in fighting American cities over climate change. Just before a critical hearing to determine the fate of a pair of climate lawsuits in California, the United States government has weighed in as a heavyweight ally on the side of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: "White Nationalist" Ronny Cameron, His National Socialist Friends, and the Jewish Defence League
For the life of me, I don't understand why Meir Weinstein of the Canadian Jewish Defence League has such an amicable relationship with Ronny Cameron: In an article published last week, I commented Ronny Cameron, a self-professed "white nationalist" and "alt-right" proponent as well as a supporter of Richard Spencer,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Little Humour Too Much For The White House Press
The WHCD has always included a roast, so long as I can remember back to the W Bush years. Colbert’s roast of Bush is among my most favourite moments in history. Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to
Continue readingThings Are Good: America Might Find Salvation in Satire
2016 witnessed the election of Donald Trump thanks in a large part to Russian meddling in the American democratic process. One of the most effective things that the Russians did was lie and spread contradictory information to make it hard for people to discern reality. Trump’s marketing skills made use
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