Between 2008 and 2013, ARC published a series of articles detailing Mar Lemire's racist past and his involvement with the Heritage Front. I compiled all of the links on this single page: Marc Lemire: Summary of Information It has been more than six years since I've added to this series
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wikileaks: Assange Arrested in London
Assange has been a political prisoner for most of a decade and he still is one today, not a criminal hacker. Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we exposed illegal spying on Assange, his lawyers and doctors, and just days before the UN Rapporteurs on Torture and Privacy
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Turd Blossom Stinks Up Canada
Preston Manning is a joke. Karl Rove is a war criminal. Imagine living in a world based on the ethical standard of Rove. Could be that we are there now. A world where war criminals like Bush and Blair are heroes. — ed wood (@edwood3) March 22, 2019
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Two Minutes on Novermber 11th
Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Great War. Canadians will mark this day as they have for the last century with two minutes* of silence. We will remember the 61,000 men and women who died in uniform, most of whom are buried overseas in
Continue readingPostArctica: Bolsheviki by David Fennario
Read this play last night – brilliant, classic Fennario. Having grown up in the Verdun/Point area his characters tend to send shivers down my spine in their uncanny familiarity and purely old school working class worldviews. It includes a lot of stuff about World War 1 that your standard history
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Worst President Possible
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 readingPaul S. Graham: Have we finally learned how to stop worrying and love The Bomb?
Slim Pickens on the set of Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Last year, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to abolish nuclear weapons. On July 7, 2017, 122 member countries voted to approve the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Opponents of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Scott Gilmore discusses how Canada is actually backsliding in some crucial development goals. And Colin Gordon writes about the inequality growing on multiple fronts around the globe. – Kathy Tomlinson uncovers a Vancouver real estate market rigged to benefit developers and speculators.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Reporter Was Right Before
When someone is correct multiple times about major events, it’s worth hearing what they have to say about the latest unfolding. Trump’s Presidency is crumbling, and if Americans wake up, it won’t last long into next year.
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Winnipeg Kurdish Solidarity
Winnipeg, Jan. 23, 2018: The local Kurdish community rallied at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in solidarity with Kurds under Turkish attack in Afrin, Syria. Photo: Paul S. Graham According to a January 23, 2018 story from Reuters, Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will Trump Sue Bannon? Don’t Hold Your Breath.
It would be a real Punch & Judy show. Trump wailing away on his former campaign CEO and chief political strategist, using a confidentiality agreement to bludgeon both Bannon and the vaunted First Amendment to the American Constitution. I’d pay a buck and a quarter to see that, wouldn’t you?
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: War is a Terrible Back-Up Plan
Noam Chomsky is certain that the only two things we should be worried about right now are climate change and nuclear war. Adam Ellick and Jonah Kessel’s article in the NYTimes from last month, “From North Korea with Dread,” is terrifying. Some think it’s not something to fear because of
Continue readingScripturient: Remembering those who served
It’s at this time of the year, as we approach Remembrance Day, that I think most about my family, especially those who have died. I wish I had known when I was younger what I know today, so I could have asked them more about their lives, and about their
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: And This Is Where We Need to Worry
China is in the process of ascending to superpowerdom, displacing America from its perch. And the US Navy is worried that they’ll get away with it without a fight. There have been instances where a dominant power, an empire, yields to another peacefully. The transition from the British Empire to
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Freud and Einstein’s Correspondence
Lately many people are talking of the rise and fall of Freud’s psychotherapy and his philosophies. Some write him off completely because many of his psychoanalytical claims have been discounted through a more rigorous scientific method than Freud employed, but it’s not good philosophy to discount an entire person for
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: We can’t afford to forget the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Seventy-two years ago this Sunday, a United States Air Force bomber dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” on Hiroshima; an estimated 130,000 people perished. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, 70,000 citizens of Nagasaki were vaporized when the atomic bomb code-named “Fat Man” was unleashed. Over the years
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservative Party Should Be Sorry
The Conservative Party of Canada, in response to Omar Khadr being awarded a damages settlement for torturous conditions of his imprisonment, said, “No words,” on their Facebook post. I’ve some words. A political party that was okay with leaving a child soldier to be tortured in an American prison, ought
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: Nuclear Korea and Donald Trump
To begin, if you know someone who is currently working in South Korea, you may want to prepare their return home or at the very least…ensure they renegotiate any contract they are under for a larger sum. While many South Koreans have become used to the threats posed by the
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