Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Laura Flanders interviews Naomi Klein about the connection between the climate crisis and inequality – including her recognition that any attempt to address…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Laura Flanders interviews Naomi Klein about the connection between the climate crisis and inequality – including her recognition that any attempt to address…
Relaxed cats.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gabriel Winant reviews Matt Stoller’s Goliath, and discusses in the process the importance of challenging the assumptions capitalism as a system rather…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Asher Schecter interviews Emmanuel Saez about the realities of growing inequality – and the denialists looking to exacerbate it. And Chris Hayes talks…
A look at the ways in which, in Western societies, binaries organize our thinking and our lives, and at way...
A look at the ways in which, in Western societies, binaries organize our thinking and our lives, and at ways we can navigate and perhaps at moments move beyond them.…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out that what normally gets claimed as a higher life expectancy arising out of capitalism in fact consists of…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Justin Nobel exposes the toxic – and even radioactive – side effects of the oil and gas industry. Reuters reports on the widespread…
Pale Waves – Noises
Here, on the Saskatchewan Party’s dangerous focus on privatization and photo-ops rather than the public infrastructure the province needs. For further reading…– Alex MacPherson reported on both the Moe government’s…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz, Todd Tucker and Gabriel Zucman write about the need for governments to bring in sufficient revenue to act in the public…
Comfy cats.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michael Enright interviews Linda McQuaig about the loss of public resources to privatization – even in the face of popular opinion: People…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz points out that a few gross numbers based on top-end wealth can’t change the reality that Donald Trump’s economy has…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dion Rabouin offers a reminder that corporate tax giveaways don’t do anything to help the economy beyond the interests of wealthy shareholders. And…
Matthew Good – There For the First Time
Cats on the level.
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – James Bradley writes about the range of responses to an increasingly threatening climate. And Emma Morris offers some suggestions as to how to…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine and create something better. And…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ben Jenkins rightly calls out Australia’s right-wing government and media for caring not a whit for the people seeing their country go up…