Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erin catches a typically-partisan response from the Cons to the prospect that a new U.S. stimulus package might contain Buy American provisions once again:What…
Going Rogue?
Matt Taibbi talks to David Shushter about the latest banking scandal. Swiss financial services company UBS has admitted that a “rogue” trader has run up a loss of $2 billion…
Is Terrance Corcoran a Leaf Fan? Losers Lead – Leaders Lose?
It would appear the answer is "yes", as this person is clearly impaired in his ability to tell a "leader" from a "loser". Case in point: his piece in yesterday's…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: A left turn for Denmark
…and a new female prime minister, their first ever: The Social Democratic Leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her centre-left alliance won Thursday’s general election to give Denmark its first woman prime…
Manitoba Election: Tory drops the nuclear ball; Green kicks it out of the province
When asked if her party would support a moratorium on transporting radioactive nuclear fuel waste through Manitoba, Progressive Conservative candidate Heather Stephanson equivocated, saying she would not answer a “hypothetical…
America’s Woefully Inadequate Oversight of Pipeline Safety: A New York Times Stunner
Last week, the New York Times published a bombshell of an expose about the government's woefully inadequate program to monitor and ensure the security and safety of American energy pipelines.…
Salvaging September: The Palestinian Statehood Initiative at the UN
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been one of the leading critical Israeli peace and human rights organizations struggling for Palestinian rights during its more than 14 years…
Barack Obama, the world’s leading assassin, and his private army
Within the U.S. military is another military, a secret military. Not secret in its existence—although even that can be shadowy—but secret in its operations. Except when it scores a public…
Score Another One For Rick Salutin
Consistently able to 'think outside the box' of the current North American mindset, Rick Salutin, one of my favorite critical thinkers, has a column in today's Star well-worth perusal. Entitled…
Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out…
Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out…
Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out…
Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out…
Coming up on Monday: Reading: Un Acte d’Amour…
Just a reminder than on Monday I'll be talking about Neil Bissoondath's The Unyielding Clamour of the Night at Reading: Un Acte d'amour (or Lire : An Act of Love,…
Calling Out Libertarians (Part II)
Sam Seder rebuts various comments from libertarians on his Majority Report YouTube channel concerning alleged hypocrisy vis-à-vis libertarian principles in connection with the death of Ron Paul’s former campaign manager.…
3D Hitler photo album launched in Germany
"The Face of the Dictatorship: the Third Reich in 3D" contains roughly 100 images of the dictator shot in 3D, originally used as Nazi propaganda beginning in 1936.
xenophobia and racism, such an easy itch to scratch
Yesterday I purchased something from a small, independently-owned store near where I live in Mississauga. I was the only customer there; the only person working was the owner, a brown-skinned…
Are The Liberals Preparing To Change Position On Increasing Quebec House Seats
So here I am taking Brian Topp and New Democrats to task for parroting the views of the Bloc Quebecois on increasing Quebec's seat count in the House of Commons…
Complete This Sentence: Bad News For The Ford Regime
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Public Can’t Rely on Government Processes to Stop Tankers and Pipelines
This is the third part of a three part series from Rafe Mair on civil dissent. In the last article I discounted the possibility that any hearing into the Enbridge…