Water woes from data centres
Data centres, the backbone of artificial intelligence, consume enormous amounts of water and energy—placing new pressures on local communities and ecosystems. Photo by Christopher Bowns/Flickr. ...
Saturday Photo: The Great Huntress
Evi on the hunt for a bee! Luckily for it and for her, she didn't catch it. Note the harness. She's an inside cat who has learned to love her…
UPDATED: State Control: Limiting The Range Of Thought in Amerika
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no…
Consequences Are Possible For Coups
In the year leading up to his bid for re-election, the president sought to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the voting machines and voting system throughout his country.
#Felon47: Snowflake and Cancel Culture Expert
For those who are not sure yet, the US is deep in a fascist state of existence. I have my doubts that they’ll ever get out of it. #Felon47 has…
Beyond Social Democracy
What would it take to go from reforms within the capitalist system to a democratic socialist society? That's a much tougher question than it may seem at first glance. The…
A Pariah State
With so many terrible things transpiring in today's world, it is often hard to feel any hope. Wars and injustices abound, and we are met daily with images of death,…
The left should defend democracy, not Ottawa’s bid to curb the notwithstanding clause
Supreme Court of Canada. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The federal government is intervening in the slow-moving Supreme Court case over Québec’s pre-emptive invocation of Section 33, the notwith...
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Still from the “We Are Canadian” video, featuring Nova Scotia’s Jeff Douglas. Image from YouTube. In response to the re-election of Donald Trump, the United States’ on-again, off-again tariff wa...
Jimmy Kimmel is 2025’s WTC2
Any of you who were born after, say, 1990 might not get that reference. For those who don't, when the first World Trade Center tower in NYC (WTC1) had a…
Cryptocurrency and War – Cousins in Absurdity – Challenged by AI
Cryptocurrency – a way to supposedly create wealth by wasting massive amounts of water and energy to do meaningless computer calculations that solve no actual real life problems or serve…
What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump [ThreeWayFight]
by Matthew N Lyons Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates September 16, 2025
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…
Why We Need A Strong Military
Poland invoked NATO Article 4 last week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace forcing a defensive military response. On the weekend, Romania reported a Russian drone violating their airspace, as…
Taking stock of the Air Canada strike
Air Canada flight attendants on the picket line last month. Photo courtesy CUPE. Last month’s strike at Air Canada, which saw flight attendants defiantly walking the picket lines, struck a…
The Truth About Charlie Kirk
Unfortunately, the lionization of the late racist Charlie Kirk is not confined to the Benighted States of Amerika. To the Conservatives of Canada, Charlie Kirk is a martyr to free…
To repair or not to repair, that is the TV question
Last Wednesday, my wife woke me with four words nobody wants to hear. “The television doesn’t work.” I’ve heard this before. My 65” Samsung, with its various boxes attached, can…
Not Selves, but Not Nothing
We're living at a time when the glorification of independence and individualism is harming the world and others in it, as well as leading to an epidemic of loneliness. According…