The 21st century has seen an explosion in the number and wealth of billionaires, driven largely by financial market surges, deregulation, and favourable tax policies. It is no coincidence that…
Cat among the pigeons.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump is a threat to civilization (in the form of any social order other than one based on…
It’s axiomatic: when you do something a lot, you get better at it. So, when you do lots of campaigns, you get better at campaigns. Witness the variously pro-Palestine, anti-Israel,…
Just before Christmas, The Toronto Star published a list of their twenty favorite fiction reads of 2025. The Gates of Polished Horn was included! The… The post Favorite reads of…
I can only imagine that Walter Cronkite, the esteemed icon of CBS News who presided over many earth-shattering events, is gyrating wildly in his grave, and the still-alive Dan Rather…
When more than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers recently quit, it highlighted the Trump coalition’s growing internal debate over white nationalist antisemitism. But it also points to a crisis of…
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Confused alien fails driving test
Santiago Mariño Caribbean International Airport, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, with pictures of Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez. Photo by Wilfredor/Wikimedia Commons. If Western politicians truly car...
Nicolás Maduro posing with DEA agents following his capture by the United States. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. After four months of US President Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling, set again...
When Trump is doing crazy stuff in the United States, Americans can take refuge in saying "well, I didn't vote for him!" And when it is people inside the United…
Credit where credit is due, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuelan raid and kidnapping has accomplished one important thing: There was hardly a word in the media about the Epstein Files…
Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians... The post Trump gets a 51st state first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Stephen Beschloss writes that while the specifics may be unpredictable, the broad strokes of the Trump regime are entirely in keeping with a U.S.…
How AI is reshaping who gets to create — and what creation now asks of us.For most of human history, creative practice has been gated by thresholds that were invisible…
Red flags flying in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. Photo by Victoria Reay/Flickr. Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left David Camfield Fernwood, 2025 ...
Palestinians from the village of Tantura, a month following a massacre by Israel’s Haganah, are expelled to Jordan, June 26, 1948. Photo by Benno Rothenberg. Of all...
When the dust settles on U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take over Venezuela and its massive heavy oil reserves, the outcome is unlikely to be good for Alberta. This…
In fewer than 365 days after taking office Donald Trump would threaten to invade Panama and Greenland, launch a global trade war, bomb five countries, and invade South America —…
