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If Harvey Weinstein did anything good in his life it may be the role he played in bringing sexual harassment of women to the forefront. Harvey did a lot to…
If Harvey Weinstein did anything good in his life it may be the role he played in bringing sexual harassment of women to the forefront. Harvey did a lot to…
In 1992, 1500 scientists warned the world to change or die. 25-years later it’s the same message only this time it carries the signatures of 15,000 scientists. This new cautioning…
Former FBI director, James Comey, is using Trump’s favourite medium, Twitter, to fight back against the Mango Mussolini. In one of his latest tweets, he quoted a sermon from the…
Between Brexit and Trump, Britain has become Great no more. At least that’s how Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 sees it. The worst part,…
Let this idea soak in for a minute. A report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research concludes that Europe’s only hope of meeting its Paris greenhouse gas emissions…
Chris Hedges writes that, in order to fully grasp the disease of neoliberalism, it helps to take stock of the symptoms. The disease of globalized corporate capitalism has the same…
The Trump government has just awarded a $2.83 million contract for security at its Russian installations including the US embassy in Moscow and its consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and…
An estimated 60,000 white supremacists took part in a torchlight parade through the streets of Warsaw this weekend. Police estimated 60,000 people took part in Saturday’s event, in what experts…
Mitt, son of George (beloved former governor of Michigan), Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and Republican presidential candidate in 2012, offers a cogent take on Alabama’s whack-job senate candidate, Roy…
A new report has identified 27 ways a heatwave can cause human death. And, if we keep up with our fossil fuel fondness, up to 75 per cent of humanity…
Yeah, Vancouver, the city where your kids have zero chance of being able to afford to live where they were born and raised. Thanks, Ottawa, you assholes and, by “assholes”…
Federal and Alberta governments have created a nightmare in Athabasca, a massive environmental catastrophe in waiting. The threat comes from toxic tailing ponds so huge they’re visible to the naked…
The menacing face of Congressional corruption is being exposed in the Republican’s tax reform bill. They can’t hide it any longer. They’re bought and paid for, have been for some…
In the pages of the world press Justin Trudeau has suddenly gone from pretty boy to bad boy. Our prime minister has made waves by purportedly sabotaging the Trans Pacific…
The previous item, reposted from December, 2011, addresses growth as theft. The subject also came up today in an item in The Guardian.In the medieval legend made famous by the…
This from December 24, 2011. Time to Break Our Growth Addiction Imagine being trapped in a society that considers heretical the notion of living within its finite means. That is…
No, not the temperature, although that too is getting hot. I’m referring to the tenor of our social and political discourse. We’re turning venomous, turning on each other. Society is…
The Guardian editorial puts tax havens and those who use them to shirk taxes in a useful perspective. It’s a group of privileged individuals who are seceding from society. Well,…
Few have done it so well as Roger Cohen’s op-ed dissection of Donald Trump in Der Spiegel.Many of us tend to take Trump’s insults to decency as they come, one…