Truthdig, November 3, 2011: "Goldman Sachs, which received more subsidies and bailout-related funds than any other investment bank because the Federal Reserve permitted it to become a bank holding company…
The following article was first published May 24, 2010. Since then, Sean Holman suspended the Public Eye website, Postmedia has focused on serving business not public interests, the destruction of…
News item, The Guardian, November 3, 2011: "Bill Gates will tell the G20 group of developed and developing countries on Thursday that they could raise an extra $48bn (£30bn) a…
Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them --…
CHARITY: generous actions or donations to aid the poor, ill, or helpless. The Fraser Institute styles itself the most influential market research organization in Canada. It is certainly the best…
Tomgram: Lawrence Weschler, The Great American Shakedown, November 1, 2011: "In the U.S., corruption is seldom “corruption.” ... 15 of top “bundlers,” who give their own money and solicit that…
There is little wonder uber-wealthy invest in politicians because the yields can be high. Two decades ago, California developer Charles Keating gained infamy by looting Lincoln S&L of $1-billion, an…
News Item: "Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters will be building an even bigger Wall at BC Place on May 26 next year. "In an announcement made Tuesday morning, BC…
In March 2008, Gordon Campbell intimate Ken Dobell plead guilty to violating British Columbia's lobbying legislation. Dobell had retired as deputy minister to the premier in 2005 and then busied…
In his NY Times blog, economist Paul Krugman focused attention on one of the frequently repugnant think-tanks that serves America's one-percenters. In Denial In Depth, Krugman applauds Ryan Chittum at…
Great neighbourhoods are that because of great neighbours. We've shared one small corner of the world for 35 years or so with families who really are particularly fine. Each year,…
Alexandra Morton has been nominated at The Tyee for The People's Order of BC and you are eligible to vote. These words — familiar ones to readers of Northern Insights…
begun the financial overlords who control all of the major levers of power in what passes for our democracy. ... three decades of rampant upper-crust greed ... will be well…
Without ethical foundations, leadership in government is merely random wandering among infinite possibilities. A whim of yesterday had value then but none today. No one knows what will be expedient…
Documents on tortured Canadian Almalki say he posed no terrorist threat, Andrew Duffy, Postmedia News, October 25, 2011 OTTAWA — Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki says new documents show the RCMP's…
If the linked article had been written by almost any other journalist in the province, one might wonder if it involved exaggerated criticism of a disrespected government. But, since the…
Campbell and David McLean The bubble of power mentioned in the preceding story suffocated Gordon Campbell. Gradually, he became isolated, surrounded chiefly by people desperate to please. Track his administration…
Take note America: the public is angry, Moisés Naím, Financial Times, October 26, 2011 "Over a century ago Alexis De Tocqueville wrote that Americans’ higher tolerance for inequality relative to…
I have been reviewing amounts paid senior officers of BC Ferry Services Inc. and also the amounts paid to directors. In 2009, the Comptroller General of British Columbia reviewed governance…
We are critical when violent situations involving police end badly so its appropriate to applaud an opposite outcome, when the public is protected and the threat is taken down without…
