Occupy Toronto
Well, I had the opportunity to attend the Occupy Toronto march to St. James Park, and I was impressed by the age range of those in attendance, as well as…
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CBC Apologizes Privately for O’Leary
The following has been reported in The Globe with regard to Kevin O'Leary's boorish and abusive recent interview with Chris Hedges:CBC’s ombudsman says Kevin O’Leary’s heated remarks during an interview…
Pop Quiz: Can You Detect The Bias In This News Report?
Hint: it's from a Fox affiliate.Recommend this Post
Funny, But True
Enjoy this satire that really isn't a satire about the 1%:Recommend this Post
A Victory For The Occupy Wall Street Movement
With the world watching, and over 300,000 names on a petition to stop it, the planned 'cleanup' of Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, has been halted. The cleanup,…
What the Occupy Movement Means for Canada
There is a surprisingly good article (but only online, I think) in the Globe and Mail by an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Armine Yalnizyan, who offers…
Mississauga Bans Shark Fin Products
Say what you will about Mississauga and their errant mayor, but on Wednesday its municipal council did the right thing. Despite those who urged caution, the council voted to implement…
The Truth About The Garda Screeners’ Dispute At Pearson Airport
While the mainstream media has uniformly reported that the job action delaying so many passengers recently at Pearson International is over scheduling conflicts, to my knowledge only one source has…
Gerald Caplan Writes on The Occupy Wall Street Movement
In an online article entitled This is what democracy looks like: Occupying Wall Street and Bay Street, Gerald Caplan and Amanda Gryzyb discuss why the occupation movement is a healthy…
Peel Police: Where Racial Profiling Goes By Another Name.
And that name appears to be 'rookie mistake.' At least that is what the force is claiming in its 'apology' to Isaac Williams, a 60-year-old who emigrated from Jamaica in…
My CBC Letter of Complaint About Kevin O’Leary
For anyone who might be interested, here is the letter of complaint I sent off by snail-mail (not as easily ignored as email, at least that's my thinking) yesterday to…
The Older Generation Joins With the Young
For people of my generation, the following videos are heartening, depicting as they to the willingness of military veterans to put themselves at risk to protect the young people in…
Civil Disobedience: The Courage of Tim DeChrisotpher
I had not heard of Tim DeChristopher, a brave young man who, in the dying days of the Bush administration in 2008, attended an oil and gas auction in Utah…
Panic of the Plutocrats
That's the title of an excellent article by the New York Times' Paul Krugman as he writes about the hysteria being elicited in the power elite over the implications of…
Tim Harper on the One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Steel’s Hamilton Lock-out
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of U.S. Steel's lockout of the workers from its Hamilton plant; the lockout would seem to be in contravention of the guarantees that the…
Chris Hedges Addresses the Occupy D.C. Protesters
The acclaimed journalist offers a stirring indictment of the American Dream that has become a living nightmare for the majority of Americans:Recommend this Post
Chris Hedges From The Occupy D.C. Protest
In a very informative interview from Washington, Chris Hedges incisively and very articulately holds forth on the implication of the protests, the difference between the Occupy Movement and the Tea…
An Interview Fox News Refused To Air
I have to say that my life has been immeasurably enriched since becoming a regular visitor to truthdig.org. In addition to providing important perspectives on issues that are either largely…
Republican Eric Cantor Concerned About Growing Mobs On Wall Street
In a shameless but hardly surprising display of partisan hypocrisy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) referred to the Occupy Wall Street protests as “growing mobs.”Why is this hypocritical? Well…
Chris Hedges Vs. Kevin O’Leary
Many thanks to Dr. Dawg and Let Freedom Rain for the link to this video, in which Chris Hedges demonstrates amply his disdain for that bombastic cipher, Kevin O'Leary.Recommend this…