That new TIME cover: wow
TIME’s new cover: A reckoning after Trump's border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoR pic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc — TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2018
June 2018
My advice: kick Trump in the nuts
That’s my considered diplomatic advice. From next week’s Hill Times column: At a press conference held to mark the end of the Parliamentary sitting, Trudeau gave the sort of verbal…
Justin Trudeau and the End Of the Great War on Marijuana
I started receiving text messages from some of my friends in Scotland before I even got out of bed yesterday morning.And they all basically wanted to know the same two…
Not The Sharpest
During the last election, Doug Ford made a lot of promises to Ontarians. But he never gave them a plan. David Reevely writes that Ford and Ontarians are about to…
Some truths for Jagmeet Singh.
New democratic party leader Jagmeet Singh learned some truths in a federal bye-election this week. It was in Quebec and political truths can be particularly brutal in that province. It…
The Archaeology News Network: Evidence of a Mesolithic stone industry discovered…
FLINTSTONES The Archaeology News Network: Evidence of a Mesolithic stone industry discovered…: The excavation in progress this year suggested from the very beginning that the human presence on the acropolis…
EconoSpeak: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Str…
EconoSpeak: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Str…: A piece of work is Professor Walter E. Williams of George Mason University. Back in February, I flagged a column…
Doug Ford and the Proud Goys: Yet ANOTHER White Nationalist Connection
ARC has already published articles that connect the Progressive Conservative Premier-designate Doug Ford to a host of white nationalist groups and individuals. A few such examples include Faith Goldy: Kevin…
Federal officials discussed raising alert level to highest level during Idle No More, book says (repost)
Senior federal officials discussed raising the country’s alert level to the highest tier at the height of the Idle No More movement, which also shaped how Canada’s security agencies handle…
‘Zine: Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective (repost)
Downloadable ‘zine format here. (PDF, 425kb) Truly, there are stains that it is beyond the power of man to wipe out and that can never be fully expiated. Read the…
Workers of Germany, Unite: The New Siren Call of the Far Right (repost)
BOTTROP, Germany — Guido Reil is a coal miner, like his father and grandfather before him. He joined a trade union at 18 and the center-left Social Democratic Party at…
Five Ideas for Building the Manitoba Activist Left
Photo from Public Domain This is the third and final piece in a three-part blog series. In the first post, I provided an overview of Manitoba’s activist left. In the…
Scapegoating Iran
Photo by Reuters Seventeen years of war in the Middle East and what do we have to show for it? Iraq after our 2003 invasion and occupation is no longer…
I Heard About this Outfit Today.
Today I received a Facebook notification about some outfit called “Ontario Proud.” I hadn’t heard of it but the word “proud” caught my attention and got me thinking about the…
The Fetid Hotbox of American Fascism – Ann Coulter
She’s xenophobic, racist and a bottomless pit of evil. Some, like Bill Maher, still imagine he can have a dialogue with this scumqueen but that is a self-serving contrivance of…
LIARS. Where Do Their Lies Stop, When?
What do Jeff Sessions, Kirstjen Nielsen, Donald Trump, FOX News and many of Trump’s followers have in common? They’re utter liars. They lie as easily as they breathe. They will…
New Series – It’s a FUBAR World Now
From time to time I’ll be posting articles under the title, “It’s a FUBAR World now.” FUBAR is an old military acronym that took SNAFU up a notch as shown…