May 5:Why do poor countries pick on the U.S?.
As most people all over the world are crashing into poverty, the super-rich all over the world are piling the money up. Yes. They are. That’s why we still get…
May 2020
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Where are you, God?
How Andrew Scheer Is Burying The Cons
I'm sure for a lot of Canadians it was a recurring nightmare. A question that kept them up at night.What would have happened if the Cons had won the election…
COVID-19 Renews the Struggle for Anti-Capitalist Care Models
An elderly woman lies on a bed in the room of her long-term care home. Photo by Sima Dimitric/Flickr. In the last couple of months, we have been inundated with…
A Post-COVID-19 Canada: Towards Decarceration
Prison surveillance. Photo from Flickr. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a period of incredible collective action for the public good, and also a moment of stark inequality. “We are all…
You Liberals Will Love This
Every morning I listen to BBC’s Global News podcast. Some morning it starts with a commercial aimed at Canadian listeners. This morning’s ad was a spot by Amica, a Canadian…
Is the huge gap in COVID-19 cases between Edmonton and Calgary bad luck or bad management?
So far, Alberta’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been a tale of two cities. It may not have been quite the best of times, the worst of times, but…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sheila Block highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified the profits accruing to the wealthy few while putting added pressure on…
The Vengeful Wrath of Donald Trump
Former Trump fixer was one of a number of inmates who qualified for early release from prison due to the Covid-19 virus. Then this happened. Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer…
A Soul Soother For These Troubled Times
Baroque music AND a livestream of Venice. I return to this several times a day. Recommend this Post
How Hot? Sahara Hot.
Another study confirms that global heating is coming and, for billions of us, it will be unbearable. That’s billions, with a ‘B’. As our planet heads toward 3 degrees Celsius…
When in a hole, Tories, stop digging
Boy oh boy, Scheer and the leadership candidates sure are doing a great job! #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc #ndp https://t.co/pbAEFNLyGv — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 5, 2020 What a massacre there…
The Blue Cold Shoulder
As we have been fighting Covid-19 there have been some interesting developments in how we have reacted to certain things that would be normally be a part of our political…
The Cambodian Forest Protectors Risking COVID-19
Deforestation in Cambodia increased dramatically this millennium due to multinational corporations exploiting the country’s natural wealth. Obviously, this removal of trees has bothered people and damages entire ecosystems. As a…
Colossal Frauds
Donald Trump is being blamed — rightly — for the debacle that is happening in the United States. But the problem, Paul Krugman writes, goes far beyond Trump. It goes…
Same-old, same-old Tory party.
This conservative leadership contest is a disaster. What started out to be dull and boring has been made doubly dull and boring. We are now advised that we will know…
Everything you need to know about covid-19
Worldwide there have been 321 cases of COVID-19, or Wuhan flu, per million people. There is the answer re: how infectious is it? Negligible. Gain of function over the flu,…
Plague Update: ReOpen Rant
You’ve probably got friends on that gosh awful Facebook website who’re clamouring to go back to normal. They want the certainty of a steady paycheque, the regular services, and plentiful…
Fiddling while America burns
People in the United States are realizing that Trump and his administration have spent the last two months tweeting and twiddling their thumbs. Silly. The plan is to pretend that…