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When I rebooted this blog in the fall of 2018 I made a commitment to post at least once a month and so far I have kept that promise to…
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Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Charlie Angus discusses how MAGA is recognizing the effects of Canada's resistance - so long as our leaders don't sell us out. - But…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Harj Narulla weighs in on the effects of the International Court of JUstice's determination that countries can be held liable for contribution to a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Isabella Kaminski reports on the International Court of Justice's advisory ruling that climate destruction can be a source of state liability for reparations,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Blayne Haggart and Eric Duchesne point out that Mark Carney's idea of nation-building reflects little more than barely warmed-over 1980s neoliberalism - making for…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Nichols discusses how the only discernible values behind the Trump regime are those of corruption and retribution. And Toby Buckle writes about…
The not so generous Australians
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Fact versus Fiction
People of this world have many problems. Not least among them is climate change. Environmental activist David Suzuki discussed his pessimism about the future. Dr. Suzuki thinks we have now…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- George Monbiot discusses how fascist concepts of "joking" are used to normalize the dehumanization of the targets of a regime's abuses. And Greg Sargent…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Qasim Rashid offers a reminder that the U.S.' deficit and debt are the result of a political system controlled by and for the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Paul Krugman discusses how toxic masculinity is being used by the oil and gas sector to keep people addicted to dirty fossil fuels. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Julia Steinberger writes about the necropolitics surrounding the climate breakdown - as fossil fuel interests have declared our lives forfeit, and our scope…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week.- Greg Sargent highlights how Donald Trump's pretense of concern for working-class people has given way to the largest transfer of wealth to plutocrats in…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Charlie Angus comments on the futility of giving up substantial interests in the hope that a new trade deal with the Trump regime…
Wednesday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Wednesday reading.- Dharna Noor discusses how Zohran Mamdani is rightly connecting climate ambition to an affordability agenda. And Vass Bednar looks to Mamdani's push for public…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, Claire Brown and Mira Rojanasakul report on new research showing that the climate breakdown is only accelerating as the powers that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simon Tisdall discusses the fallout from the Trump regime's choice to launch a war in Iran - with its culture of denial doing…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Watts talks to Genevieve Guenther about the need to keep talking about the many climate tipping points in front of us - along…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott discuss how Canada's elite consensus toward the Trump regime has turned to one of deference (particularly for…