Justin, Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned
A word of caution for the prime minister of Canada - Don't even think about it."It" is the loathed Northern Gateway pipeline initiative designed to transport hazmat sludge, also known…
2016
Marx and Engels: On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly and the Working Class Movement
Author: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback Size: 160 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-79-7 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2016 Price:$10.00 (USD) available for purchase from leftwingbooks.net Originally compiled and edited by the…
It’s time to stop beating up on Hillary Clinton and instead help her beat Trump (or Cruz)
Win McNamee/Getty Images It’s been quite a race so far for the Democratic Party nomination south of the border. And a bit of deja vu. Hillary Clinton again has been…
It’s time to stop beating up on Hillary Clinton and instead help her beat Trump (or Cruz)
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesIt's been quite a race so far for the Democratic Party nomination south of the border. And a bit of deja vu.Hillary Clinton again has been challenged by…
Hitting Children Doesn’t Help
We now have solid evidence that spanking is more harmful than good for children. In the largest study of its kind researches have found that children who were spanked displayed…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Fred Dews highlights Alice Rivkin's suggestions as to consensus policies which can reduce inequality while facilitating economic development. And Sheila Regehr looks at how…
Odd tuxedo on green
A Matisse-like cubism. Made with the earlier version of Tayasui Sketches. The new version has some interesting new brushes, and as I was browsing the gallery I noticed this, which…
LawFact of the Day: Civil Litigation
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 27, 2016. Today we are talking about Civil Litigation.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 27, 2016 at 6:34am…
Why I Wrote a Book About How to Clean Up Toxic Debates
I wrote my last book, Climate Cover-Up, because I wanted to take a deeper look at the science propaganda and media echo chambers that muddied the waters around climate change,…
Meeting ordinary Canadians at Kananaskis.
You have to hand it to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He really knows how to get out there and meet with ordinary Canadians. And when your cabinet needs to discuss…
An Albatross For A Long Time
The Conservative Party of Canada is in a bad place. Even Conservative cheerleader L. Ian MacDonald admits that -- as a recent EKOS poll suggests that those who call themselves…
Stephen Harper and the Incredible Shrinking Legacy
Once the swaggering bully must have thought that his monstrous legacy would last forever.And that he would change this country and its values beyond recognition.But only six months after he…
A Rich Businessman’s Humility
Far too many employers see their employees as disposable, fungible, or, even worse, targets to exploit. I am happy to report that the CEO of Chobani yogurt, Hamdi Ulukaya, is…
AP: South Korea covered up mass abuse, killing of “vagrants” (repost)
BUSAN, South Korea — Three decades ago, a policeman tortured Choi Seung-woo over a piece of bread he found in the boy’s schoolbag. After being stripped and having a cigarette…
Back on Track: the Object of Third Worldism (repost)
Posted by on 2014/07/28 in Africa, Asia, Colonialism, History, Imperialism, National Liberation, Neo-Colonialism, Revolution, Revolutionary Foreign Policy, Theory | Read the rest of this post on the original site at…
‘Widespread’ workplace abuse persists for Chinese restaurant workers (repost)
A new study finds some 43 per cent of Chinese restaurant workers earn less than minimum wage while more than half said they worked over 40 hours a week. Read…
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LGBT magazine editor stabbed dead at Dhaka home (repost)
Talking to The Daily Star, Mohammed Iqbal, officer-in-charge of Kalabagan Police Station, said they suspect the involvement of militants in the killing. Editor of LGBT magazine ‘Roopban’, Xulhaz Mannan was…
Philip K. Dick Conference disinvites white separatist (repost)
Organizers of an upcoming literary conference at California State University, Fullerton on the late science-fiction author Philip K. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Philip…
Will the Cons Bring Back Stephen Harper From the Dead?
It's almost impossible to believe. It's like a scene out of an old made in Harperland horror movie. Stephen Harper may have led his Con zombies to disaster. His depraved…