Consciousness
Consciousness seems to be mysterious to most people. How does subjective experience arise? What is the relation between the perception of redness, say, or the thought that “Paris is the…
2017
Hopelessly Criminalizing BDS Only Augments Its Impact
Photo by Jonny White Imagine a natural disaster in Israel, after which city officials demand that victims sign a form swearing never to boycott Iceland before they can receive aid.…
U.S. Spent $5.6 Trillion Killing People in Middle East and Asia: Study
As the U.S. prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan to combat ISIS and the Taliban, and the specter of a war hangs over every tweet the President writes about…
Is Trump Steering America Away From Democracy?
The headline in Foreign Policy, “Trump Isn’t Sure if Democracy is Better Than Autocracy,” is jarring. It would be so much less troubling if America wasn’t already so far down…
New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers
Photo by Joan Campderrós-i-Canas Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain’s National High Court – direct descendant of the fascist Franco-era Court of Public Order – took the war of the Spanish…
#Thee Too
If Harvey Weinstein did anything good in his life it may be the role he played in bringing sexual harassment of women to the forefront. Harvey did a lot to…
It’s 15,000 Voices This Time. The Message is the Same. Change or Die.
In 1992, 1500 scientists warned the world to change or die. 25-years later it’s the same message only this time it carries the signatures of 15,000 scientists. This new cautioning…
Nov. 13: a slow news day
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/teenage-girls-migrants-dead-mediterranean-sea-women-found-italy-police-investigation-libya-europe-a8041856.html I began with this one because this is just one, small sample about the horror of refugees. The number in the news usually runs to a couple of thousand…
Comey Goes Biblical on Trump’s Ass
Former FBI director, James Comey, is using Trump’s favourite medium, Twitter, to fight back against the Mango Mussolini. In one of his latest tweets, he quoted a sermon from the…
A Britain Great No Longer
Between Brexit and Trump, Britain has become Great no more. At least that’s how Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 sees it. The worst part,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steve Burgess points out that we shouldn’t be the least bit surprise by the latest news of politically-connected billionaires managing to tilt the…
Top 10 Legal Headline for the week of November 13, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of November 13, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
It’s Not Just the Depth of the Challenge, It’s the Magnitude.
Let this idea soak in for a minute. A report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research concludes that Europe’s only hope of meeting its Paris greenhouse gas emissions…
Impossible To Ignore
I have noticed a shift lately on the part of the ultra-right. Instead of denying climate change, increasing numbers are ‘admitting’ that the climate may be changing, but they have…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 13, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 13, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Blue-chip law firm Appleby explored connecting tax haven to Halifax, leaked documents…
Why Does The Con Media Hate Justin Trudeau So Much?
Well it's now been two days since the Con media went after Justin Trudeau for allegedly sabotaging a trade deal by missing a meeting. In what can only be described…
Baby, you’re a rich man
It’s hard to keep track of political revelations in the Trump era, true. But back in August. you may recall that The New Yorker’s award-winning political writer, Ryan Lizza, published…
NASA Designs Plane Modifications to Save Fuel
A seemingly simple change to airplane design can make a huge difference in fuel efficiency: add another engine. Yes, as counterintuitive as it sounds, NASA has figured out that by…
Stunning
Ed Broadbent has the numbers on what a tax structure tilted towards the rich costs: According to a recent study in the Canadian Tax Journal, the top 1 per cent…
Diminished democracy of Canada’s Conservatives.
In looking at the major political parties in Canada in their headlong dash for irrelevancy, we might as well start with the Conservatives. Since the end of the 90s and…