Defund the Police, Spend Taxes on Better Things
vote In my life team I have seen nearly every public service get defunded except the police, meaning people who would otherwise be housed, have mental care, or otherwise not…
September 2020
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 28, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 28, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court this…
Policy confusion does no one any good #nlpoli
Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be the day when governments buried announcements, they didn’t…
Policy confusion does no one any good #nlpoli
Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be the day when governments buried announcements, they didn’t…
The NDP’s 2017 key campaign promises: What they delivered and what they didn’t
Originally Published by The BC Liberal Leaning Vancouver Sun We dissect the 2017 NDP election platform. They kept some promises, partly filled others, and skipped some completely. Author of the…
The Fogginess of These Times
I had laser surgery over a decade ago and love not wearing glasses, but I’ve started wearing my sunglasses regularly, even on my walk to work just as the sun’s…
I pay my taxes. And I pay more than this grifting sonofbitch did.
Biden team already out with an ad hitting Trump over the @nytimes story –––> pic.twitter.com/1FfQWaEtU7 — Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 28, 2020
Is It Better To Denounce Donald Trump Or Mock him?
For almost four years decent Americans have called Donald Trump every name in the book, from depraved pussy grabber to deranged werewolf. And they were all right. But the sad…
9/27/2020: The real news.
Sorry this blog is so late. But yesterday was a family day.As well, today’s blog is different because I have to write – not about our news but about the…
Speaker’s Corner
Ms Soapbox is working on a project that will keep her busy for the next couple of weeks. Rather than allow The Soapbox, a virtual Speakers’ Corner, to fall silent,…
Mango Mussolini Gets Bum’s Rush
The New York Times has used 20 years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to paint a picture of Trump as a tax avoiding bum facing serious financial trouble. Among the…
A Philosophy of Antifascism: Existentialism, Decolonization, & The Three-Way Fight: An Interview with Devin Zane Shaw (RevLeft Radio)
Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, Devin Zane Shaw identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists.…
The Far Right, Global Capitalism, the Left, and Antifascism: Three Interviews with Matthew N. Lyons
The following interviews with Matthew N. Lyons, author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, provide important background to the realignment and convergence going on…
Paths to Glory: Green Party Leadership Contestants’ Paths to Ranked Ballot Victory
With 9 opitions on the Green Party of Canada's leadership ballot, what's it going to take for one of the 8 leadership contestants to emerge victorious on Saturday, October 3…
Paths to Glory: Green Party Leadership Contestants’ Paths to Ranked Ballot Victory
With 9 opitions on the Green Party of Canada’s leadership ballot, what’s it going to take for one of the 8 leadership contestants to emerge victorious on Saturday, October 3…
What Are The Threats We Face In This Time? A political education webinar with SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
Police violence, authoritarianism, and repression in the midst of a presidential election and pandemic. How are these threats connected and how can we take strategic action in the midst of…
The Great Human Petri Dish
How did it come to this? How did humanity become so homogenized? In his new book, “Commanding Hope,” director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads, Victoria, Thomas Homer-Dixon looks…
Big Exodus from Big Tech
Time for the exodus to begin in earnest from the now confirmed to be fascist and deeply Orwellian Big Tech giants. At the least, we need to begin the migration…