The fate of capitalism hangs in the balance of international power
Dollar and yuan note. Photo from Shutterstock. This is the fifth in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis entitled WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A MANIFESTO…
2020
If this was a movie a good title would be “WAG THE PANDEMIC”
This is one strange, strange pandemic, if it wasn’t for the news media I wouldn’t even know it existed. Many have come to the view that we’re living in something…
Goldman Sachs Warns First Class Passengers to Take to the Lifeboats
They’re going to miss the bloated bastard when he’s gone. To Wall Street, Donald Trump has been a champion of the rich, so much so that Goldman Sachs is now…
The insecure Donald Trump.
Look at that son-of-a-bitch standing up there on the Truman balcony of the White House. Thinking about it, you wonder why this boor would insult every previous president of the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Richard Warnica discusses the end of a summer in which we’ve been far too lax about limiting the foreseeable effects of COVID-19. Aaron…
Does Teaching Effectively Legitimize Ford’s Plan?
What Doug Ford’s team is doing right now reminds me of Bojack Horseman, from the end of the first season on, when absolutely everybody just starts saying “Hollywoo” after the…
Today on Warren’s Internet
Can we perhaps go on a couple dates first, please? https://t.co/x4WloipUgn — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 12, 2020
‘None of It Reported’ : How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
‘None of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried the Assange Trial The post ‘None of It Reported’ : How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
The UCP, in the middle of its war on doctors, picks a fight with nurses too
It seemed crazy for the United Conservative Party Government of Premier Jason Kenney to pick a fight with the province’s doctors in the middle of a pandemic. Still, if you…
The Conservatives are hostile towards those we need the most
Share this: While the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the globe, many governments were caught off guard and had to act quickly. Those countries that elected to put their top…
On silent threats
The science of COVID-19 (italics in original, underlining added): Are pre-symptomatic carriers more contagious before or after they get symptoms? “People tend to be the most contagious before they develop…
The Conservatives are hostile towards those we need the most
Share this: While the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the globe, many governments were caught off guard and had to act quickly. Those countries that elected to put their top…
Donald Trump and the Evita Complex
Donald Trump might have been spewing Covid in every direction, but he just couldn't stay away from that balcony. He had to be there. He had to feel the love…
I got a ten! Happy bird day!
Room Rater gave me a ten! Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. Love the hutch. Assorted objects. Art. Prefer the Pinot Grigio, but it’s still a 10/10 @kinsellawarren https://t.co/l7c9yBsgTd pic.twitter.com/G5g3ftmNkP — Room Rater…
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Ms Soapbox and her family would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. To say that it’s been different this year would be an understatement, but we can all be…
The (almost forgotten) October Crisis
In October 1970, Canada was looking pretty good, at least in the eyes of a 14-year-old boy, mainly me. An avid newspaper reader in the early stages of a long…
Why Michigan? It Was No Fluke.
Why did heavily armed domestic terrorists storm Michigan’s statehouse? Why did a group of terrorists, members of Michigan’s Wolverine Militia, plot to kidnap and put on trial their governor, Gretchen…
Team Biden: Democrats Represent A Continuation Of Neoliberal Corporate-Fascist Elite Rule
What, in reality, would Team Biden and a Democratic White House represent? Let’s cut through the noise and fog and illusions, and deal with reality here, for a change. Team…