I see Donald Trump’s plan to utterly eviscerate the Republican Party is working very well. Just look who he picked as his running mate: possibly the only white man more bigoted, vile, close-minded, racist and misogynistic than the passel of presi…
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Mind Bending Politics: US Election 2016 Coverage – Mindbending Style
Over the next few weeks, and months I plan on doing a few blogs on the US election. I think the rest of the world needs to sit down and have an honest conversation with our American cousins. Jeff Jefferies, has some good thoughts about that. Warning below video uses explicit language and is […]
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Europeans Contest US Anti-Russian Hype
Brexit certainly has focused political minds throughout the world and in spite of the corporate media message of gloom, there may well be some good comes out of it. Originally published in Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hillary Clinton will return to Ohio on Monday with Elizabeth Warren in tow.
Hillary Clinton will return to Ohio on Monday with Elizabeth Warren in tow. As Democrats sharpen their general election argument against Donald Trump, it will be their first joint appearance on the campaign trail. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bernie Sanders- This Is A Speech For Our Time!
Yes, this is about the Democratic Party nomination, but it holds true for Canadians as well. Bernie tells it like it is, a rare and refreshing exception from the spin doctor packaged talking points that Read more…
Continue readingScripturient: More relevant words from Nixonland
Once again, as I continue to read through Anthony Summers’ biography of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power (Penguin Books, 2000), I am struck by the uncanny resonance of many comments quoted within it to local politics. It’s like people …
Continue readingScripturient: Alger Hiss, Richard Nixon and Collingwood
Remember the case of Alger Hiss? I didn’t think so. It was before your time. Mine too. But let me jog your memory, just in case you’re older than I am. Or perhaps just well read in recent history. Hiss was a US government employee, a diplom…
Continue readingScripturient: Demagogues and dictators
I’m not sure why they fascinate me, but I’ve been reading about demagogues and dictators for many decades now and still can’t seem to get enough of them. Of course, it’s in part because I like to read about politics in all its…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Actually Debate Before The June 7th California Primary?
The New York Times–Hillary Clinton has declined an invitation to debate Senator Bernie Sanders before the California primary election next month, but he may have found a willing replacement: Donald J. Trump. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: “Evil World Banking” Explained
In this animated video, John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, explains how terrorism and a “mutant, viral form of capitalism” are connected. “If we want to get rid of terrorism, Read more…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Everybody Knows But Not Everybody Gets It
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows)Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than two terabytes of documents detailing the creation of off…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Everybody Knows But Not Everybody Gets It
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows)Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than two terabytes of documents detailing the creation of off…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Everybody Knows But Not Everybody Gets It
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows) Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than two terabytes of documents detailing the creation of off-shore shell companies and their dubious financial transactions only provided us with the details of what
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bernie Sanders Rallies Thousands In The Rain At Seattle’s Key Arena
It has been surreal watching the US media pandering to Donald Trump and lionizing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders has been almost entirely ignored, especially by Fox and CNN but the other networks Read more…
Continue readingwmtc: fascist shift: donald trump in context
Many years back, I used to blog about a phenomenon called fascist shift. I borrowed the term from Naomi Wolf’s essential The End of America, but the concept was something I had been thinking about for many years. In brief, fascist shift asks, What…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alaska Threatened By Canadian Mining Operations
In far too many cases our mining industry has a disgraceful record wherever they have gone, certainly in Central and South America. The Alaskans are also threatened by our environmentally ruinous copper and gold mining Read more…
Continue readingScripturient: The Political Agnostic
Watching the American political debates, especially the increasingly vituperative and acerbic Republican debates, reminds me again why I am a political agnostic when it comes to party politics. I simply cannot believe that any single political entity, …
Continue readingScripturient: Oh, Ann, You Do Make Me Laugh
Ann Coulter, that spewing harridan of hatred, bigotry, malevolence and xenophobia makes most thoughtful people cringe. Hell, she makes even rabid, right-wing frothers cringe. She makes the Westboro Baptist morons cringe. She makes the Duck Dynasty win…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: The GOP’s worst nightmare, a brokered convention
Before we went to a primary-style system of selecting party leaders, we were used to the idea of contested party leader conventions in Canada. Sometimes you just never knew who might win, and there might be the occasional surprise – take Joe Clark and Dalton McGuinty, just to name two.
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