Blog status update
Over the summer I’ll be working on getting a new site up and running. This has been in the works for a while. It represents a new direction that I…
Jay Cables
Blog status update
Over the summer I’ll be working on getting a new site up and running. This has been in the works for a while. It represents a new direction that I…
Some Islamophobic new atheists as bad as Fox News on steroids
Atheist “fundamentalists” whose very existence seems predicated on their non-belief in God can be as extremist and narrow minded as the worst religious prig. They’re fixated, the way many extremists…
Who is the real terrorist?: LowKey – Terrorist video
Definitions of terrorism: “The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” – Merriam Webster “Systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal.“ – Free Dictionary…
Bostonians once supported NorAid and civil rights in N. Ireland: Americans should oppose disastrous US foreign policy
The Irish-Americans of Boston were once a source of support and inspiration for nationalists in the north of Ireland during the dark days of The Troubles. During the hunger strikes…
Eric Schmidt’s privacy concerns about drones more than a little ironic
Executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, recently went public with his concerns about ‘everyman’ drones getting into the wrong hands. Thinks they should be banned… might be a privacy threat.…
NDP caters to conservative critique by nixxing ‘socialism’ references in constitution
Top: NDP leader Mulcair / Bottom: Atefa Akbary and Farshad Azadian The vote at the NDP Montreal convention to remove the word “socialism” from the party’s constitution is symbolic in…
‘Bugsplats’: civilian death count from U.S. drone strikes
Some child casualties of covert US drone war The Pakistan government has released its figures for civilian casualties of American drone strikes. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that…
Groundbreaking genome research explodes ‘one people’ myth of Jewish history
Eran Elhaik, an Israeli-American geneticist working out of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, recently had his research published in the prestigious journal Genome Biology Evolution. The groundbreaking study –…
Billy Bragg on why he became a socialist
One of the main reasons Billy Bragg became a socialist was Margaret Thatcher. She inspired many to take up the fight against the policies that have been wrecking Britain. Billy…
Iron Lady? Rust in peace: Thatcher was a disaster for the UK
Following the death of former British PM, Margaret Thatcher, more than a few people in the UK took it to the streets. Champagne bottles popped and smiles lit up the…
Video message for FEMEN: ‘saving Muslim women one bra strap at a time’
A Muslimah from Manchester, England, gets her message across in this funny yet pointed video in which she thanks FEMEN ‘from the bottom of her heart’ for showing her how…
Capitalism is self-destructing: Richard Wolff on the ways
It doesn’t require a Trotskyist or a laid off worker to tell you that capitalism isn’t working. Not only does it not work, it is destroying societies… it is destroying…
Harper government ‘an embarrassment’ with bailout on U.N. drought convention "talkfest"
Another first for the UN-phobic Harper government. After earning the distinction of being first to bail out of Kyoto, they are now the first to jump ship from the UN’s…
Arundhati Roy: Iraq and the ‘psychosis’ of U.S. foreign policy
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The occasion is upon us with barely a whisper from Washington. Hardly surprising… the legacy of the U.S. invasion has…