Is it time to turn the page on Facebook?
There was important news coming out of Australia lately that has nothing to do with wildfires, kangaroos or Foster’s Lager. The Australian government was locked in a stare-down with social…
February 2021
Malaysia Stops Jailing Addicts, Helps Them Recover Instead
Addiction is tough and it can happen to anyone. In Malaysia they are changing their drug laws to reflect this reality by providing rehab for users instead of locking them…
The scars of solitary: Albert Woodfox on freedom after 44 years in a concrete cell
Woodfox was a member of the Angola 3, a group of men wrongfully accused of murder. Now he marks the fifth anniversary of his freedom by Ed Pilkington Fri 19…
A Black Panther Love Story – Charlotte & Pete O’Neal
March 2020: Charlotte and Pete O’Neal at their home in the Arusha region of northern Tanzania. (Photograph by Jaclynn Ashly)This article is mirrored from https://www.newframe.com/part-one-a-black-panther-love-story/. Part one Charlotte and Pete…
Letters of life from slow death row – A Book Review by David Gilbert
Inside prison, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El was a jazz musician, writing music and organizing in-prison shows in addition to his work helping fellow prisoners access quality education. A review of ‘Pen…
The Unspoken Privilege – English Privilege
We all know what White Privilege is but no one seems to speak about English Privilege. English privilege is simply the ability of English language speakers to get by practically…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Feb. 23, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/updates-23-feb-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
Being Held To Account
The United States passed an ignominious milestone two days ago — 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus. That milestone was absolutely avoidable. And, in the UK, there have also been thousands…
Why Tronti? Why Now? Interview with Andrew Anastasi
available from leftwingbooks.net Mirrored from https://spectrejournal.com/why-tronti-why-now/ The philosopher and politician Mario Tronti remains one of the most important Marxists and political theorists in postwar Italy, yet until now, no critical…
Canada doesn’t need a Governor General.
Not since the ‘King-Byng-Thing’ in the 1920s has Canada needed a governor general. The conflict between the prime minister and the governor general of the time, resulted in the Statute…
Unsustainable Alberta: Don’t expect the UCP to pay any attention to the Business Council of Alberta in tomorrow’s budget
It’s Alberta Budget Day tomorrow. Finance Minister Travis Toews will table a budget at an afternoon pop-up meeting of the Legislature. Then United Conservative Party MLAs will run like hell…
Why Atheism Is A Bag of Hot Air
Atheism is decidedly unscientific, and anti-empirical, because it dogmatically asserts a claim that it cannot possibly prove or even empirically support. If they were truly empirical, or truly scientific, they…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Active cats.
Musings on Making Bread and Chili, No. 1
Longtime readers here know that before my surgery last summer, along with my pasta making I was an avid, if not always entirely competent, baker. I mostly made bread from…
Canada’s shame to be addressed?
Unfortunately, politicians and senior bureaucrats have grown used to paying massive sums to compensate for callous acts and derelictions of duty. Moral behaviour and financial prudence would have them doing…
Winter Is Almost Done and We Have So Many New Books @Leftwingbooks.net!
It is always exciting to see what comes in the mail … here are some new titles we picked up in February, all available (and many of them discounted as…
Fighting the extreme right, building the left
Masked Proud Boys at a protest in Raleigh, North Carolina. Photo by Anthony Crider/Flickr. This article is a response to “Banning the Proud Boys—be careful what you ask for” by…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrea Reimer examines the power dynamics at play in government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the limits of formal political power…
Racism In The American Psyche
Yesterday, Merrick Garland appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The contrast between Garland and William Barr — his immediate predecessor — was profound. Jennifer Rubin writes: President Biden’s nominee for…