People Should Stop Attacking The Margaret Wente
It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t read Naomi Klein’s new book about climate change. It doesn’t matter because the internet of things. It doesn’t matter because most of what’s important…
October 2014
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Rozworski observes that the NDP’s $15 per day national child care plan has irritated all the right people – while still leaving…
ConCalls: Sona Sentencing Taking Too Long #RoboCon
Michael Sona has to wait until next month to find out how much time he’s spending in jail for being convicted of participating in a nefarious scheme to defraud Guelph…
This is war Ms. Wynne.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her so-called Liberal Party are having a love in down in Windsor today. They had better enjoy that group hug inside because the town of…
With An Eye To The Future
It is to state the obvious that all progressives long for the day that the Harper regime is ousted from office. What is not so obvious, however, is what shape…
Fossil Fuel Lobby Spent $213 Million Last Year to Influence US, EU Politicians
Fossil fuel industries spent an estimated $213 million lobbying U.S. and European Union decision makers last year, according to a new report published by Oxfam International on Friday. In the…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Analysis And Comment 2014-10-18 08:51:00
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VALUE OF MY FREE TIME AND MY WORK TIME, IS I GET PAID A LITTLE FOR MY WORK TIME THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IS FOR FREE…
The Ebola Panic
Ebola has gripped the imagination of North American media and been spun into a terrifying spectre looming like a horseman of the apocalypse over us. So widespread has it become…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Analysis And Comment 2014-10-18 08:05:00
FORDISM AND POST FORDISM IN THE GRUNDRISSE Contradiction between the foundation of bourgeois production (value as measure) and its development. Machines etc. But to the degree that large industry develops,…
Discipline & Punish: Christopher Skinner’s murder representing the bodies of gay men (Originally posted Oct. 25, 2009)
“Now media is declaring that the hate-crime label is misguided. But regardless, we can still ask the same question- was he attacked because he was gay? Would his attackers acted…
Stephen Harper the Big Lie and the Merchant of Venom
It's hard to tell these days whether Stephen Harper is lying because he's desperate, or because he's lost his moral compass.Or on a day like yesterday, because he's simply delusional.…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Analysis And Comment 2014-10-18 07:44:00
POST MODERN ALCHEMY GRUNDRISSE NOTEBOOK VI February 1858, continued Surplus value. Production time. Circulation time. Turnover time Change of form and of matter in the circulation of capital.— C-M-C. M-C-M.…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Analysis And Comment 2014-10-18 06:40:00
‘As Though ItsBody Were By Love Possessed’. In machinery, the appropriation of living labour by capital achieves a direct reality in this respect as well: It is, firstly, the analysis…
How Many More?
“our society seems to have lost its way“ With that poignant observation, Florida judge Ross Healy, sentenced 47-year old Michael Dunn to life imprisonment without parole, for the “loud music”…
As soon as the NDP picks a new leader today, the party’s focus should turn to Edmonton-Whitemud – here’s why
Your blogger with Edmonton-Whitemud NDP candidate Dr. Bob Turner. Yeah, I support the NDP. Live with it! Below: Retiring NDP Leader Brian Mason, Health Minister Stephen Mandel, Alberta Liberal candidate…
Lois Morrow is in the Thick of Shawnigan Campaign to Represent the Community at the CVRD Table
Lois Morrow- A Contender Cowichan Conversations On August 15, in an exchange of comments with Councillor Sharon Jackson regarding the optimal term length for local elected officials, the proprietor of…
Disaster Averted? Simushir Under Tow. Long Night of Westerlies Ahead.
The Canadian Coast Guard coastal patrol vessel, Gordon Reid, has the crippled Russian cargo ship, Simushir, under tow and is slowly taking the ship away from Moresby Island in Haida…
Musical interlude
Kaskade – Back On You
CBC: No, Telus, your advertised speeds don’t prove anything
Big Telecom has a statistics problem. Article by Sophia Harris for The CBC Arguments by Telus against increased competition in the Canadian wireless sector include misleading statistics that don’t reflect…