Doing A Woodward
Roger Cohen — who is recovering from COVID — catalogues all the things “you know” about Donald Trump: You know that ego could not resist 18 interviews with Bob Woodward,…
2020
Sept 22: Confronting Medical Violence: Conversations to Decolonize Healthcare
This panel will discuss the history and ongoing medical colonialism that perpetuates anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare About this Event Fighting for A Hand to Hold exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s…
Toots, RIP
I am so, so down about this. What a giant of an artist. What a genius! Seeing him a few years ago with my Jamaican brother Karl – it was…
Voting for delusion
As I read this short piece at No More Mister Nice Guy, I felt increasingly horrified: It’s often said that Trump’s approach to everything is “transactional.” I think Trump’s approach…
Impressionists were people too.
www.youtube.com/watch Loving this series. Especially the biographical and historical evident in this episode.
Why I Want Trudeau’s Throne Speech To Trigger An Election
The other day I went out for a bike ride, and at the end of my street came across Justin Trudeau. He was attending an event to announce a new…
The Left Coast Isn’t All Blue
While the western states are predominantly Democrat-leaning, Republicans control a lot of territory in the central and eastern regions. That includes parts of Oregon currently beset by wildfires. The state…
Musical interlude
Deftones – Ohms
Visionless
Shorter Trudeau Liberals last month, trying to justify shutting down Parliament and setting up a game of Parliamentary chicken over a throne speech: It’s absolutely vital that we talk about…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lance Taylor summarizes his new book documenting how and why U.S. inequality has ballooned over the past few decades. And Heather Scoffield writes…
Covid Journal, Sept 11, 2020
Canada’s Residential Schools – Hard to Watch, But Necessary I enrolled with the University of Alberta’s ‘Indigenous Canada’. Every Canadian should take the time to review these videos and content.…
Alberta takes over as Canada’s political Crazytown; privatized health care suffers a setback
VICTORIA — When I was growing up here in Lotusland, British Columbia had the reputation of being the Crazytown of Canadian politics. The late Allan Fotheringham, the Vancouver Sun columnist…
Mental health under neoliberalism: From self-help to CBT
Screen capture taken from an animated short video on the website of the Government of Alberta, entitled Stop Negative Thoughts: Choosing a Healthier Way of Thinking. The provincial government’s health…
Nazi Hippies: When the New Age and Far Right Overlap
GEN.MEDIUM.COM Both the New Age and the far right are drawn to conspiracy theories Read more…
Mask It or Casket
Dear anti-mask libertarian folks: your “freedom” ends where my 88-year-old Mom’s respiratory system begins. Wear the damn mask, please. Sincerely, etc. #MaskItOrCasket pic.twitter.com/07Weh4Idri — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 11, 2020
Trump Treasury Department Withholds Funds to Treat 9/11 First Responders
The New York Daily News reports that the federal Treasury Department has skimmed millions in funds designated for tracking and treatment of 9/11 first responders. The Treasury Department mysteriously started…
Has Bowler Hat Britain Become a Giant Criminal Enterprise
George Monbiot claims, when it comes to corruption, The City (as London is known) takes second place to no one. When you connect the words corruption and the United Kingdom,…
This fails the smell test.
It must have been the final political straw for Bill Morneau. After taking some of the heat off the prime minister in the ‘We charity’ imbroglio, the former finance minister…
Collective Malevolence
Michelle Goldberg writes that Bob Woodward’s tapes of Donald Trump reveal something we didn’t know about him: The president doesn’t sound ignorant or deluded. Rather, he sounds uncommonly lucid. On…
New AK Press Arrivals at Leftwingbooks.net
Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism Author: Marquis Bey Format: Paperback Size: 96 pages ISBN: 9781849353755 Publisher: AK Press For Workers’ Power The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, Second Edition…