Neoliberalism & The Death Of The Middle Class
The death of the middle class is due to a very conscious, four decade class war, known as neoliberalism. (See Chomsky, Profits Over People, and, Requiem For The American Dream.…
The death of the middle class is due to a very conscious, four decade class war, known as neoliberalism. (See Chomsky, Profits Over People, and, Requiem For The American Dream.…
Continues apace. A shortage of skilled workers is the biggest challenge many Canadian businesses face today, Employment Minister Jason Kenney told a skills summit Wednesday, warning it could also jeopardize…
On CBC’s “The House” this weekend, I heard an interview with the Financial Post’s Terrance Corcoran, in which he was basically poo-pooing the very real issue of the growing disparity…
Writer, war correspondent, religious scholar, Chris Hedges has become increasingly radicalized over the past dozen or so years although he would argue it’s society that has truly changed, particularly through…
Michael Valpy — whose new address seems to be the Toronto Star — writes that Canadians are becoming markedly intolerant of one another — and Stephen Harper is reaping the…
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into RecessThis is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn't it bad enough that we have a…
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into Recess This is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have…
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into Recess This is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have…
Income inequality seems to have sprung up as a hot issue in the American elections. With a consummate rent-seeker, Mitt Romney, carrying the Republican banner, America’s crippling inequality – income,…
When I see Tea Party rank and file interviewed on television I’m often struck by how thoroughly indoctrinated they are. They’re sort of the white bread equivalent of North Koreans…
Via a helpful reader, one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen this week: I don’t know Joe Couto, and I’m sure he’s a perfectly decent guy in real life,…
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: “And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so…
Source here. Strictly speaking, I have doubts about the authenticity, as this guy can actually spell. Related posts: Electro-Motive: Foreign corporation takes Canadian tax dollars, fucks over Canadian workers |…
… while Harper’s thumb stays firmly planted up his ass. Montreal Simon and Owen Gray have already flagged this, so I can’t really add much. But hey, I could be…
This could just be what the corporatist Right fears most; the American public realizing there’s a class war underway and they’ve been taking fire. If the American people get in…
The Tyee – This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party: ” … with the election of Stephen Harper, everything changed. No prime minister in Canadian history has come…
Daily Kos: I See What Occupy Vancouver Did There…And It’s Brilliant: ‘via Blog this’ At the Daily Kos, Ed Murray shines the light of reason on the corporate media’s theme-O-the-week:…
Like clockwork, the corporate media are swinging into action. Or perhaps like robots. Either way, the narrative is being reinforced and amplified. Just now on CTV a “news” report is…
Managing Occupy protest cost city $1-million, city says – The Globe and Mail: ‘via Blog this’ It’s masquerading as “objective” “news,” but in fact it’s anything but. Note how Canada’s…
George Monbiot – Unmasking the Press: ‘via Blog this’ Too bad about Hitchens, but the best thing I’ve found about the corporate media this week comes from Monbiot. Everything you…