Florida Prisoners Are Laying It Down (repost)
During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons. Read the rest of this post on the original site at…
January 2018
Florida Prisoners Set to Begin Strike (repost)
Inmates at Florida state prisons prepared to strike Monday to protest brutal living conditions and their work for little or no pay. The strike, which has been coordinated between 10…
Donald Trump: The President and the Porn Star
Dan MurphyDonald Trump does a lot of bad and dirty things. Always has, always will. It's the nature of the beast.But the one that disgusts me the most, without the…
Fear Itself
Franklin Roosevelt told Americans the only thing they had to fear was fear itself. Tony Schwartz — who ghost wrote Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal — writes that Trump…
Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
Photo by Tony Caldwell Great joy and relief came with the news this January 12th that French investigative judges issued an “order of final release” for Dr. Hassan Diab from…
Abbas Declares Oslo Accords Dead: ‘Trump’s Peace Plan Is a Slap, We’ll Slap Back’
Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said Israel killed the Oslo Accords and called U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan “a slap in the…
Now This Is Truly, Deeply Deplorable
I think most people have heard of the right-wing Fraser Institute, the ‘non-partisan’ think tank that receives charitable tax status while promoting a largely neoliberal agenda. Well, they now seem…
Democracy, behind closed doors?
There is some puzzlement here with Canada’s democratic institutions minister. She asks for public input on political leaders’ debates for the next federal election but meets with those her department…
Seth Klein finds cracks in Site C Dam economics
Seth Klein, B.C. Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Check out this January 17, 2018 opinion piece from Seth Klein in The Georgia Straight, debunking the economic argument…
dual occupancy home designs melbourne
by Larry Schlesinger The Australian patio is vanishing quick. Where there was at one time a Slopes Lift, veggie fix, cultivate shed and space to kick the footie, there’s presently…
A Brief Message For Nick Gallant of the Northern Guard
Nick is triggered. He’s pretending that he isn’t, but he really is. Nick is upset that ARC has once again shown the kind of character that would be attracted to…
On last chances
I’ll offer one last reminder that tomorrow at 5 PM is the membership deadline for the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership race. Sure, the Saskatchewan Party will soon be deciding on a…
How B.C. Outsourced Environmental Protection (And What You Can Do About It)
If you look closely at almost any major environmental controversy in B.C. in the past decade, you’ll find one common denominator: industry-paid “professionals” were trusted with our province’s environmental protection.…
Entitlement Mapping 101, Oluo 5/18
Fresh off of chapter 3 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race, we now enter the check your privilege chapter. This is a critical chapter to ensure…
Thanks KBR, Thanks Halliburton, and Special Thanks to You, Blackwater.
The American conquest of Afghanistan and Iraq ushered in the return of for-profit warfighting, now called “contractors” rather than their traditional name, mercenaries. Now other nations are jumping in to…
Sorbara out
This had been a long time coming, I’d been told. There were several campaign managers but no single campaign strategy. There were other problems, too. Credit where credit is due:…
Park Board responds to Vancouver Aquarium decision on cetaceans in captivity
Vancouver Park Board News Release January 18, 2018 The Vancouver Park Board applauds the announcement today by the Vancouver Aquarium that it will end the importation and display of live…
Worth Repeating
I think Rick Mercer speaks for many of us in this ‘rant.’ Recommend this Post
Did the NRA funnel Russian Money To the Trump Campaign?
If this didn’t come from McClatchy Newspapers I probably would have given it a pass because it just sounds too fantastic – Trump, the National Rifle Association, and shady Russian…