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Jeremy Scahill dissects his homeland’s descent into fascism and doesn’t spare Obama for his role in it either. Four or five years ago this was a tough argument to swallow.…
March 2017
“We’ll win so much, you’ll get bored with winning.”
HA HA HA the #GOP are pulling their bill. You have lost, @realDonaldTrump and @SpeakerRyan. You lost. #USPolitics — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 24, 2017 ⚡️ “GOP health care bill…
The US-NATO Invasion of Libya Destroyed the Country Beyond All Recognition
A Libyan rebel celebrates in front of a tank belonging to loyalist forces • Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP On Friday, March 17, hundreds of Libyans came into Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square.…
TrumpCare Gets the Hook
The writing was on the wall when Republican House leader Paul Ryan popped into the White House this morning. He was there to tell Trump that his healthcare bill was…
Fighting for union justice on the streets
Richard Dalkeith (L) and Mike Vanveen work on renovations at the SLOW office, November 2016. Photo: Dan Janisse/ Windsor Star. In Windsor, Ontario, when the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association…
What we need is a working-class politics
Photo by Daniel Perianu Reflecting on the state of our movement, we should be asking: Is the labour movement better positioned today to influence and affect meaningful change than under…
Henry Giroux Unpacks Trump’s "Culture of Cruelty"
Henry Giroux looks beyond the callous brutality of the Republican’s American Health Care Act to the larger culture of cruelty being inflicted on America’s most vulnerable by Trump and his…
The 2017 Federal Budget
Here is the link to my analysis and comments re the Limits of Liberalism. http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/andrew_ajackson/2017_federal_budget_end_of_progress
Antarctica’s icy hoaxes return
Under the thick ice of Antarctica lies buried the remains of an advanced civilization, dating back 55,000-65,000 years. So startling was this discovery that world leaders were flown in to…
Reflections on the Social Democratic Tradition
The Broadbent Institute and Douglas-Coldwell Foundation have just published a paper of mine as part of a larger project on social democratic renewal, The paper is mainly retrospective, and touches…
Don Meredith and Another Senate Scandal!
I have been hearing a lot of discussion regarding newly disgraced Senator Don Meredith and his scandal revolving around sexual relations with a teenager. It seems like the Senate in…
Wrap Your Mind Around This Idea
We live in a world that’s running out of stuff including the stuff that keeps you alive – clean air and fresh water for starters. There is not enough to…
Spies Are Us: this week’s HuffPo #BCpoli column
Some people wear tinfoil hats. Some see conspiracies everywhere. Some even look around at public meetings, and see spies where there are none. B.C. NDP MLA David Eby, for instance,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Vicki Nash challenges the claim that unemployment in a precarious economy is generally a matter of choice rather than the absence thereof. And…
Our Last, Best Chance?
Canadians have all the proof they need in our own prime minister that the existing approach to slashing carbon emissions cannot work. Trudeau’s hypocrisy is embedded in his drive to…
ontario librarians: should the ola support staffless libraries?
This week, the Toronto Public Library announced plans to open libraries with no staff. Not just no librarians — we’ve seen that in many places — but no staff whatsoever.…
SAY NO TO HATE
Oppose the neo-Nazi rag, Your Ward News? Opposed Canada post delivering I hate sheet to your mailbox? Now’s your chance to say so! Write this committee! Say NO to hate!
Community First, Deportations Second?
Residents were upset that the president who promised to deport undocumented immigrants was rounding up undocumented immigrants in order to deport them. “I knew he was Mexican, but he’s been…
Setting The Record Straight
Now that Senator Don Meridith, about whom I have previously posted, has switched lawyers, it is gratifying to see that his cowardly cries of racism as a factor in the…
Samantha Bee on Donald Trump’s Hard Power Budget
Well there he was yesterday, sitting behind the wheel of a monster truck, looking like he was about to start mowing down his many enemies, real or imagined.But the truck…