Gilgamesh four thousand years later
Gilgamesh continues to enthrall us, even after more than 100 years of translations and interpretations. The story continues to be told and retold and even re-imagined. There’s even a children’s…
January 2019
Resistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith
Illustration by Gord Hill (The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book) The struggle against the monstrous radical evil that dominates our lives—an evil that is swiftly despoiling the earth and driving the…
On Arguing Facts
It never ceases to amaze me how often I’ll be writing or thinking about something, and then the perfect articles drop in my lap. It might help that I’ve been…
Exploitation and Expropriation, or Why Capitalism Must be Attacked with Equal Force on Every Front
Photo by Steffi Reichert There is much discussion on
Ford Lies About Gas Prices
Why are people believing Doug Ford’s claims about his effect on gas prices?
How Trump Turned The White House Into a Madhouse
Donald Trump has been holed up in the White House for days, in cold grey Washington, when he'd much rather be in sunny Florida playing golf.He's still clinging feverishly to…
Think of It as Climate Change Adaptation for the Wet Coast
It looks like a trip to the woodshed is in order. No, not metaphorically. It’s time to bring in another load of firewood, just in case. When that’s done it…
Really, Chuckles, Really?
Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, seems intent on fighting this year’s federal election on the destruction of our planet and the ruin of Canadian society. By that I mean, Scheer is…
The Election Will Be About The Environment
We’re having an election this year. And Leyland Cecco writes in The Guardian that the environment will be — among all the issues — front and centre: When Canadians cast…
Saluting Salutin.
Maybe you have never wasted much time on reading Toronto Star writer Rick Salutin. I have never considered his opinions of importance or particularly well founded. I have had the…
Empire of the periphery (repost)
Boris Kagarlitsky is one of Russia’s best known Marxist dissidents and who has written widely on a range of issues. His latest offering is one of his best. It is…
The Place of Teachers in this Mess
Once, about twenty years ago, when I was talking about teaching both sides of the climate change debate in the classroom, a colleague told me, “There’s just one side; the…
Follow-Up on Dara "Nazi Mom" Graham and the Reactionary Yellow Vests
It was a matter of time before Paulie, a man who has been at the center of Canadian far-right movement for close to 50 years and who is now desperately…
Jan. 1: Happy? New Year
A kind word for Donald Trump as both Republicans and Democrats gather to destroy him. Yes, he has been a boastful, bullying ass. Yes, he has done nothing for the…
I Don’t Do New Year’s Resolutions… Except For This One
The New Year is a natural time for reflection on what was and what will be. I’ve been thinking about the changes in my own caregiving over the past year:…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Decorated cats.
what i’m reading: hunger by roxane gay
During the Ontario provincial election, after a hack from the Toronto Sun drew attention to an unpopular view that I had expressed some years earlier, I was the object of…
State of the Universe
Yes, the world probably existed before me, and it will probably continue to exist after I’m gone, but for me, my life is the universe, and vice versa. This is…
"A Raging, Howling Signal"
That’s now the Washington Post summed up 2018 in climate change news. A raging, howling signal. As if to emphasize the state of this looming environmental catastrophe, hundreds of scientists…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Glen Pearson discusses the glaring gap between what citizens actually value, and what gets done by the governments they elect through distorted…