2021

The Great Game Never Ends

When then defense secretary, Colin Powell, warned George w. Bush that invading Iraq carried the Pottery Barn rule of “you break it, you own it” the neocons dismissed it. It’s…

Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Max Fawcett highlights why it’s foolish to throw out the protection face masks have provided both against a continuing pandemic, and other infectious…

Not The Time

The Green Party is consuming itself. Recent developments are not encouraging. Susan Delacourt writes: Green Party Leader Annamie Paul is facing a vote of confidence in two weeks, on July…

"A Kick In The Gut"

That’s what Alberta’s nurses are calling the move by Jason Kenney’s UCP to roll back their wages by 3%. In Kenneyland, contracts apparently are notional, not legal, documents. In 2020,…

Let’s Pretend

I know. The news is grim and it’s coming fast and furious. It’s hard to take. It can overwhelm, generating feelings of helplessness. I’ve been something of a Cassandra for…

Thursday Afternoon Links

This and that for your Thursday reading. – Peter Beaumont reports on the World Health Organization’s warning that the premature lifting of COVID-19 restrictions does nothing but put people at…

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