Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied…
Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Kenan Malik comments on the many forms of classism. And Roderick Benns examines how Ontario’s basic income recipients were able to make use…
He was born into an Irish-American family and was raised a Roman Catholic. He attended Benedictine College Preparatory, a private, Catholic, military high school in Richmond, Virginia before moving on…
More photos from our drive west are now on my Flickr page: here. I’ll also be adding to the sets vancouver island and vancouver island north as we explore.
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a founding member of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, and the NABPP-PC’s Minister of Defense. He is also a renowned artist, and author of…
It’s here. You’re being mind-fucked. And your government is doing absolutely nothing to protect you. Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, closes out 2018 with what should be a troubling look at…
I was hoping for a quiet end to 2018 in Canada, because quite frankly I'm beat. The ugly year took so much out of me, I might need to be…
This is the view around the corner from our place, maybe 100 metres down the main road into town — when it’s not raining.
I am currently reading a book by Seymour Hersh called Reporter. If you are unfamiliar with him, click on the link I have attached to his name, and you will…
available from leftwingbooks.net (mirrored from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books) Sakai has always been provocative. His work, when it is not relegated to obscurity, is treated as either sacrosanct…
I was startled by the simplicity of the forumla. Stephen Jay Gould, the late eminent paleontologist, biologist and historian of science, summed up Darwin’s basic theory of natural selection so…
It’s been a few years since my last end-of-year “Crystal Ball Gazing” blog (although in the summer of 2017, I did manage to successfully predict just how Greater Sudbury Council…
Last year at this time, the wmtc i hate christmas tradition — after being in decline for several years — roared back in full swing. This year we enjoyed the…
What was 2018 all about for you? What do you see happening in 2019? Some thoughts here. Thanks for reading in 2018!! I look forward to more writing in 2019.
David Leonhardt writes, in this morning’s New York Times, that the number one story of the year has been climate change. It’s been a year where the evidence of climate…
Let me begin with a digression on memes. Like a virus, a meme can spread uncontrollably in the right environment and infect millions with an idea or goal. This, of…
Most commentators write a recap about the preceding year on New Year’s Eve but I only thought back a week to an ‘oops.’ I realized that this Canadian missed the…
Trying to come up with a list of the most important Alberta political news stories of 2018 is more challenging than one might imagine since the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion…
This got a little out of control, so I added in pictures! But there is suddenly tons in the news about climate change, and many excellent videos to watch. Jeremy…
Two remarkable things happened this week. One remarkably good, the other remarkably bad. Let’s start with the remarkably good. Ricardo Miranda, Alberta’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, got married to…
