The rich and powerful have coined a name for them. They’re called the Precariat. These are blue and white collar workers who work full time for meagre wages that leave…
The majority of world leaders agree that we must keep global warming from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels if we’re to avoid catastrophic climate change. They agree to…
For most of us, probably, Wiebo Ludwig was a dangerous man, a criminal who blew up oil and gas machinery. To Chris Hedges, however, Wiebo is to the petro-state what…
In 2006, economist Mark Jaccard was appointed by the Harper government to a seat on the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.Today, in Washington, the former Harper…
The same, blatantly corporatist US Supreme Court that vested corporations with political rights is expected to next give them religious freedoms. Corporations, of course, worship only the God of Profit…
Where would America’s minimum wage be had it kept pace with the spiralling income increases enjoyed by the top 1%? Imagine what that would mean to McDonald’s and Walmart workers.…
The two emerging economic superpowers, China and India, are heading for the planets. China has launched a robotic lander, the “Jade Rabbit”, intended to prowl the surface of the moon,…
This is a giggle. Frank magazine has hired underemployed senator Patrick Brazeau as a freelance reporter. A magazine representative tweeted that they’ve filled out an application for Brazeau to receive…
Anyone who thinks that democracy is not under attack in Canada and elsewhere is, frankly, delusional. Anyone who thinks that we’re not under attack by corporatism and its political allies…
Will miracles never cease? An act of outright resurrection in the prime minister’s office. E-mails once pronounced deleted have been raised from the dead. The e-mails are those of Benjamin…
Around the world, civil, human and political rights seem to be in retreat. The rapid onset of our loss of privacy of all sorts is symptomatic of a larger threat.…
Well, women have evolved. Men, however, are mainly still pigs. It turns out that might be our evolutionary steady state. Turning the theory of human ancestry on its head, Dr…
The Tory backbench may have the best idea to emerge from the Conservative ranks since Harper rose to power. A Conservative backbencher, Michael Chong, plans to introduce An Act to…
For decades Pakistan and it’s powerful military intelligence arm, the ISS, has been meddling in Afghanistan’s affairs. The ISS was instrumental in backing the Mujad’s battle against Soviet forces in…
Rick Mercer, in his latest rant, said what a large and growing majority of Canadians believe – Harper is lying through his teeth about the PMO scandal and he was…
If you’ve been a bit leery about online “change” merchants like Change.org, for example, your caution might have been well grounded. The Guardian’s Oscar Rickett explains there’s little real change…
You round them up, herd them along, move them wherever it suits you and, for them, it’s always a one-way trip. That’s the rough idea Israel has in mind for…
Rick Mercer reduces the Senate expenses scandal, the PMO scandal and the Senate corruption scandal into one conclusion – Harper was in on it all along.
It’s because Callandra has enough blood circulation to stand up on his hind legs but not enough that any of it reaches his brain. Callandra, the prime minister’s laughingstock meat…
Barack Obama wanted to introduce true, single-payer health care similar to what you find in Canada or much of Europe. He didn’t get his way due to pushback by Congressional…
