A short, concise rant on Israel. .
Ok, here’s a short rant – Now that Benjamin Netanyahu was inadvertently recorded admitting that Israel is only in peace negations as a way of stringing the Palestinians along while…
Kirby Evans
Man I Tired of Harper Telling Women what to Wear. . . .
This is my question of the week – why are so many people incapable of separating their personal feelings about head-coverings from the legal question of equal rights??? I mean,…
War and Racism – The Timeless Strategy of Tyrants like Harper. . . .
The past few months have been for me some of the most depressing, politically speaking, that I have ever experienced. I can’t say that I was surprised by any means…
The Strategy of Permanent War. . .
We live in difficult times for anyone who is wants to promote justice and equality. We are living through an era in which large, globalizing corporations have overwhelmingly dominated the…
Western Crusaders and Noble Violence. . .
Defining complex social phenomena is always a convoluted problem. Of course in the ‘post-modern’ era, where language games and linguistic subtitles are the life-blood of philosophy, definitions themselves become problematical.…
Eve Adams makes me Laugh . . . and Cry.
Nowadays, it takes a lot to drag me to the keyboard to bother to write about politics. For one thing, there are other bloggers out there who, given the terrible…
Harper and the Ignorance Factor. . . . .
My esteemed peers Montreal Simon and Owen Gray at Northern Reflections have highlighted today Bob Hepburn’s op-ed piece in the Toronto Star asking the thorny, but essential, question of how…
Why I will NOT vote NDP in the next Election. . .
If the NDP was looking to create reasons for us not for vote for them then their past year has been a resounding success both provincially here in Ontario and…
Can we move beyond our culture of violence??
One only need reject a few of the prevailing beliefs of one’s society to be almost entirely alienated from vast majority of people. In Canada all you really have to…
Another Remembrance Day, And my Scepticism Lingers . . . .
Four years ago today I wrote a blogpost expressing my concerns with the modern manifestation of Remembrance Day. Even as recently as this week I received a positive comment on…
War and Righteous Christian Warriors. . . . .
Stephen Harper’s motivations to have Canada get involved in the new war in Iraq are essentially two fold. On the one hand Harper is a religious fanatic who has, for…
The War Cycle Continues. . .
Few things make my palms more sweaty than a political leader telling me that the war into which he wan’t to lead us is “noble.” They say that every war…
Harper and the Elections Rumours. . .
The rumour mill has been working overtime predicting that Harper might call an early election. These rumours went into overdrive this week when an April date was set for the…
The Harper Tipping-point, Hope or Fear ?
I tend to agree with Heather Mallick in her recent interesting (and surprisingly forthright) article on why people like Trudeau over Harper. And I agree with what many commentators (and…
The "sociological phenomenon" of Herr Harper. . . .
Herr Harper’s recent claim that the disappearance and murder of hundreds of Aboriginal women should not be viewed as a “sociological phenomenon” is an important reminder of what rightwing ideology…
The Moral Righteousness of the Harper Cabal. . . .
Understanding anyone’s motivations is a notoriously complex matter. One must always deal with the question that sociologists would refer to as “dramaturgical sincerity.” In other words, when someone talks about…
Indigenous People, Palestine, and History’s Judgements Part II. . . .
The concept of the so-called “manifest destiny” is a complex one. On the one hand it is steeped in fairly explicit racism and a brutal advocacy of the notion that…
Indigenous People, Palestine, and History’s Judgments. . . .
In 1840 the Comanche chief Buffalo Hump raised a huge party of warriors and began raiding towns in the Republic of Texas. During the raids they killed approximately 30 whites,…
Changing Winds. . . .
I have said for quite a while now that, unless something drastic happens between now and next October, I believe that the Liberal Party will form the next government. Events…
Piketty, Capitalism, and the new fight. . .
I have never had much time for the so-called “neo-conservative” agenda. I am old enough to remember when Milton Friedman entered into mainstream culture and I always found the arguments…