After More Than 12 Years, Allow Me to Introduce Myself
My name is Kurt Phillips For over 12 years I have been anonymously tracking neo-Nazis and hate groups and sharing that information on this blog. I am proud of my…
2020
John Ralston Saul Wrote of an "Interregnum." Could This Be What It Looks Like?
In his 2005 book, The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, John Ralston Saul proclaimed the end of neoliberalism as just another failed political-economic ideology. He wrote…
Eating off the Hill: Burgers n’ Fries Forever is expensively meh
I like me a good burger. Particularly ones I have made myself with fresh ground beef and assorted secret ingredients. But when it’s outside grilling season on my shared condo…
Announcing kites: a new journal of communist theory & strategy
As the editorial to this new journal explains: In the American and Canadian prison systems, kites are “contraband” correspondence shared among inmates, and between inmates and those on the outside.…
Convening Commentary
As we start into 2020 every federal party is in a different spot. While the Liberals get ready to govern with their new minority and fewer MPs, the Greens and…
The American-Iranian Psychosis
Roger Cohen writes that the struggle between the United States and Iran is madness: Take the most combustible, scarred, dysfunctional relationship the United States has with any country in the…
New column day
Here, on the new year’s early reminders of the generous treatment of corporations and their CEOs compared to workers. For further reading…– David MacDonald’s look at CEO pay is here…
On A Certain Dysfunctional Commander-In-Chief
Chip Franklin may be somewhat coarse, but he certainly has insights into the dysfunctional entity known as Donald Trump: Watching Trump's announcement in front of all those generals reminds of…
Statement: Montreal academics against police brutality and right-wing Hindu nationalism in India
Protests are being held across India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), with the opposition accusing the government of furthering a hidden agenda to target Muslims. Photo by PTI. The…
Ten reasons why Jean Charest should run
Will he? Won’t he? Postmedia muse John Ivison says he will. I think he will, too. Here’s ten reasons why I think he should seek the Tory leadership, and why…
This Knowledge Tree Cold Help us Avert Climate Catastrophe
The ongoing global climate crisis is still denied by some people (like the Australian Prime Minister) despite all the evidence. The predictions made by climate scientists decades ago are coming…
“Rent-a-Vote” services for political parties.
It has been going on for many years. As someone who taught others how to communicate with Canada’s ethnic groups, I have always been disgusted by how the information is…
NDP energy promises now forgotten
Most business managers are drawn to new low-price means of production, particularly when costs of innovations are trending steadily downward and costs of conventional methods are rising. Not at BC…
Canadians want answers about tragic Iran air crash, but Canada has little influence with no embassy in Tehran
In the wake of yesterday’s air tragedy in Iran that took the lives of at least 63 Canadians, nearly half of them from Edmonton, and many others bound for Canada,…
The UCP and convenient incompetence
Originally today I had planned on beginning recording of project 1 for the Learn To Code series but I ended up having a respectful exchange earlier on Twitter, regarding the…
Is Donald Trump High On Drugs Or Just Insane?
For a moment last night the situation looked bleak. With Iranian missiles raining down on two American bases.And the crazed Donald Trump huddled with his generals, no doubt threatening to…
What U-Haul Can Tell Us About Housing Affordability
Having worked on Parliament Hill, one of the cool things about working in that environment is that sometimes you meet people you might never have or get exposed to cool…
A Charter Poem
A Charter Poem A charter poem slipped onto the shore where I sat daydreaming about you it came from a flooded place back up the river and seemed happy to…
Books, writers, words, and competencies
I have always believed that any good, competent and credible writer can be judged (if judge people we must, and yet we do) by the books on his or her…
We Don’t Deserve This Planet: Australia Edition
Leaders of Australia commit to double down on poor economic policy amidst raging fires on that continent, proving yet again that the human race doesn’t deserve Earth.