Favorite reads of 2025 – my book is on the Toronto Star’s list!
Just before Christmas, The Toronto Star published a list of their twenty favorite fiction reads of 2025. The Gates of Polished Horn was included! The… The post Favorite reads of…
January 2026
They Have The News Anchor They Want, Not The One America Needs
I can only imagine that Walter Cronkite, the esteemed icon of CBS News who presided over many earth-shattering events, is gyrating wildly in his grave, and the still-alive Dan Rather…
Cracks in the Foundation: Heritage and Ruling Class Strategy [ThreeWayFight]
When more than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers recently quit, it highlighted the Trump coalition’s growing internal debate over white nationalist antisemitism. But it also points to a crisis of…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 6, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Pedal Confusion
Confused alien fails driving test
Meet the new Western double standards, same as the old ones
Santiago Mariño Caribbean International Airport, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, with pictures of Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez. Photo by Wilfredor/Wikimedia Commons. If Western politicians truly car...
First, they came for Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro posing with DEA agents following his capture by the United States. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. After four months of US President Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling, set again...
Speaking out against Trump and his banana-pants economic "regime change" wars
When Trump is doing crazy stuff in the United States, Americans can take refuge in saying "well, I didn't vote for him!" And when it is people inside the United…
Will Trump’s Venezuela raid help Danielle Smith get her pipeline to B.C.’s North Coast?
Credit where credit is due, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuelan raid and kidnapping has accomplished one important thing: There was hardly a word in the media about the Epstein Files…
Trump gets a 51st state
Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians... The post Trump gets a 51st state first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Stephen Beschloss writes that while the specifics may be unpredictable, the broad strokes of the Trump regime are entirely in keeping with a U.S.…
Entering the Studio Without Asking Permission
How AI is reshaping who gets to create — and what creation now asks of us.For most of human history, creative practice has been gated by thresholds that were invisible…
Contested legacies, possible futures
Red flags flying in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. Photo by Victoria Reay/Flickr. Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left David Camfield Fernwood, 2025 ...
‘No other country’
Palestinians from the village of Tantura, a month following a massacre by Israel’s Haganah, are expelled to Jordan, June 26, 1948. Photo by Benno Rothenberg. Of all...
Trump’s plan to seize Venezuela and run it from Washington may be half baked, but it bodes ill for Alberta just the same
When the dust settles on U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take over Venezuela and its massive heavy oil reserves, the outcome is unlikely to be good for Alberta. This…
A bad neighbor
In fewer than 365 days after taking office Donald Trump would threaten to invade Panama and Greenland, launch a global trade war, bomb five countries, and invade South America —…
Scalable geothermal energy
Permitting and transmission-connection hurdles face renewable developers broadly. Raising money to gain expertise and moving systems to a commercial stage is also challenging. With geothermal energy, the potential rewards are…
Trump starts WW 111 ?
"If the United States asserts the right to use military force to invade and capture foreign leaders it accuses of criminal conduct, what prevents China from claiming the same authority…
Implications For Alberta Separatists From Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela
Yesterday, the US attacked Venezuela and captured its president and his wife. This move has significant implications not only for Venezuela and its people, but it also stands to have…