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Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
Greg Fingas
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jeff Masters points out how the climate breakdown is making hurricanes and other severe weather far worse than would otherwise be the case. And…
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Tragically Hip - Vapour Trails
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Catherine Rampell highlights how Donald Trump's economy is divided starkly between profiteering insiders and exploited chumps. Andrew Feinberg reports on Trump's plans to issue…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Graham Readfearn reports on new research showing how more and more people are facing non-survivable heat - and that matters are getting worse…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Upturned cat.
#ndpldr – Notes from the Aftermath
Assorted links and materials on Avi Lewis' leadership victory and what it means for the NDP.- Steven High discusses how Lewis is offering big ideas to meet the scope and…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Andreas Rinke reports on the European countries working toward a windfall tax on yet another wave of predatory oil profits. And Mark Hertsgaard…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Zohra Ahmed warns that the Trump regime is now looking to impose guilt by solidarity on anybody with the slightest connection to social justice…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Seva Gunitsky writes about the connection between cultivated toxic masculinity and the rise of Donald Trump and other authoritarian politicians. And Greg Sargent…
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Kaskade - Imprint
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Embedded cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Kagan is the latest to notice that the U.S. is a rogue superpower whose capricious action under the Trump regime has undermined…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Mike Gaworecki reports on new research showing how the climate breakdown is affecting everyday life. Aliyah Marko-Omene reports on warnings that Saskatchewan may be…
#ndpldr – Post-Campaign Roundup
A collection of writings on the leadership campaign that elected Avi Lewis (including a few predating his election).- Isaac Phan Nay reports on Lewis' win and the signature promises that…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Paul Krugman writes that the U.S. is now the world's foremost petrostate - with disastrous results for it and for the world at…
#ndpldr – Results and Thoughts
The votes are in, and Avi Lewis has been elected leader of the federal NDP on the first ballot. And while that doesn't come as a huge surprise based on…
#ndpldr Roundup
One final collection of links and resources for those still deciding (or just wanting to learn more about the NDP leadership campaign):- Marcel Nelson and Nathan Rao offer their take…
Musical interlude
Myrne - Close The Distance
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Robert Reich examines how the uber-wealthy have undermined any pretense of decision-making in the public interest - and how political financing rules and more…