Is America Finally Coming to Its Senses?
According to Salon's David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its…
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Chris Hedges: At This Moment In History, Either You Are A Rebel Or A Slave
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author, had this to say about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement last week: “The only word that these corporations know is ‘more’…There is…
Curb Your Urge to go Stateside
America is going to start building a fence to keep out “terrorists” from Canada. If you’ve got ripped MP3s on your iPod, good luck staying out of the courts. The…
Libya Rebel Leader Underscores Our Deep Hypocricy
When it first became clear that NATO actions in Libya were going to far exceed the UN mandate of a no-fly zone to protect civilians and would instead be a…
Our Land: Will We Be Left With Only a Memory of Beauty That We Might Have Protected?
American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams was a passionate advocate for national parks. Adams, who was best known for his striking black and white photographs of the West, died in…
Showdown for America
It's crunch time for America. China is getting tired of picking up America's bar tab and has put the US on notice that the days of cheap booze may soon…
Economic Disaster One Averted. Economic Disaster Two Unfolds.
There are two types of economists at work today. There's the A Team, guys like Krugman and Stiglitz. There's the B Team, guys like Harper and the people advising American…
When You Don’t Know Who to Blame – You’re an American
You can't hope to change much when control of the narrative is what really matters. In the United States today, it's not actions but perceptions upon which elections are won.…
Hey, Morons. Yeah, You.
To all my wonderful American friends wrestling with your country's debt and deficit crisis. You're obviously incapable of seeing the forest for the trees so here's a FOX-free way to…
What If the Pendulum Won’t Swing Back?
The bastion of today's far right is unquestionably the United States. Neo-conservatism has insinuated itself into every aspect of the American corporate state and has entrenched itself in American society.…
Happy Independence Day, Americans. Now, Settle Down.
There are signs that 9/11 fever may have run its course with our southern cousins. A '4th of July' poll conducted by Time Magazine and the Aspen Institute reportedly concludes…
A Founding Father Denounces Today’s Warfare State
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of…
America Teeters on A Great Depression
It wasn't that long ago that our Ruler, Stephen Harper, worshiped all things American. Canada was a lazy, backward, northern-European style welfare state in the very worst sense of the…
Another Big Win for American Corporatocracy
The other shoe drops. A federal judge in Virginia has leapfrogged the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and ruled that a century-old law barring corporate contributions to political candidates…
Superman questions the American way
Some Superman fans want the Man-of-Steel to remain resolutely American in an uncomplicated defender-of-the-American-way fashion. The same caped patriot defending the same set of values more or less - even…
China: Fear of its Rise is Fear of Ourselves
A recent Economist article, The dangers of a rising China, leads a 14 page report loosely discussing the dangers posed to the world by China’s eclipsing of the USA’s international…
Riots and Disparity: Rome, London and Toronto
International headlines in the last two weeks have reported a massive amount of social unrest and unsettling news across the developed world, including riots and economic data which on the…
Drones, Torture, Rendition: Democratic Values?
A Huffington Post column by Johann Hari summarizes certain revelations stemming from the leaked USG diplomatic cables by Wikileaks. The piece posits that Julian Assange’s efforts have made the world…