Christy Clark is the Anti-Carrie Fisher
Don’t be fooled. As we pivot into a challenging 2017 with a provincial election on May 9, a tale of two tweets: Be Princess Leia in 2017. Fight on the…
2016
We get letters: what is what with these Trump-loving guys and gay sex?
Does Richard Schonhofer – who may or may not live in Bindloss, Alta., and works at his brother Simon’s Majestic Ranch (you can’t make this stuff up) – have some,…
Almost Too Grim To Contemplate
While the Pope is imploring world leaders to act with dispatch to mitigate climate change, it is hard to remain optimistic about the prospects of American engagement under incoming president…
Trump unhappy because son must give up charity work due to possible conflict of interest
As part of an effort to disappear potential conflicts of interest, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump recently announced he’d dissolve the Donald J Trump Foundation. Meanwhile, the 45th President of the…
Netanyahu, Putin and Trump – "Yesterday’s Men"
Benjamin Netanyahu says he has “proof” that Obama was behind the UN Security Council resolution that condemned Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories. If Bibi was surprised that the sky…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jonathan Chait sees Larry Kudlow’s claim that “Wealthy folks have no need to steal or engage in corruption!” as an all-too-accurate statement of…
"It Can Either be Jewish or Democratic. It Cannot be Both."
Blunt words for Israel from U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry. In part, Kerry was speaking truth to power. In part he was merely stating the obvious. That his words…
Canada’s New Climate Plan Could Shift Billions from Highway Expansion to Public Transit
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Clark and most of Canada’s premiers recently signed the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. ‘Framework’ is a good title for this agreement…
Anatomy of the mentally-ill Unpresident
Trump made these statements six hours apart on the same day.
The Importance of General Organa
The Importance of General Organa Princess Leia was great, but General Organa is the one I’ll be looking to in dark times Source: The Importance of General Organa (with image,…
He’s Not Crazy, Judge, He’s Just Religious.
Where is the line between religious devotion and insanity? Believe it or not, that’s before the courts now in a death penalty case. In his book Under the Banner of…
Dec. 28: forgive me for getting annoyed.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot This isn’t the usual blog. I hate writing this. I’ve been staring at my computer to decide how to tackle it. It’s about the greatest crisis of our time.…
Southeast Alaskans Ask Canada to Strengthen Its Environmental Laws
British Columbia’s environmental review process simply isn’t strong enough to protect Alaskan communities and rivers from the province’s mining boom, Jill Weitz, American campaigner with Salmon Beyond Borders, recently told…
Mapping the vocabulary of the radical Left
Key Words for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle Edited by Ian Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson AK Press, 2016 In social movements, terms like “accessibility,” “bodies,”…
Comic collection inspired by everyday heroes
Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle Edited by The Graphic History Collective with Paul Buhle Between the Lines, 2016 Comic books have a political substance whether we like…
Palestine and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Time to globalize BDS
From Pipelined: Photographing the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests video published on YouTube August 19, 2016 by Take5ND. The current struggle by Indigenous peoples of North America against settler-colonial economic projects…
The Tyee – "How Trudeau is Screwing Over the Generation That Got Him Elected"
Well now there’s an eye-catching headline. Geoff Dembicki, sometime correspondent for Vice, Foreign Policy and The New York Times, writes that Trudeau is screwing over Canada’s young people. Let’s get…
Will Trump Be a Lightning Rod for Terrorist Attacks on America?
If there’s another Osama bin Laden out there, and there probably is, Donald Trump is manna from Heaven. The Great Orange Bloat is every terrorist’s dream. He’s impulsive and reactionary.…
Is Donald Trump Too Deranged To Be President?
It's like a slow motion nightmare. Donald Trump is now just 23 days from being sworn in as president, and getting his hands on the nuclear codes.And it seems that…
Justin’s Nixon
The election of Donald Trump was not what Justin Trudeau expected or hoped for. Nonetheless, bob Rae writes, when it comes to dealing with our neighbour, The Great Orange Twitterer…