Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- George Monbiot discusses the nihilism behind the new Trump regime which seems positively eager to see the world burn, while Jessica Wildfire writes that…
democracy
Chaos — the autocrats’ game plan
Neofascists in the 21st century care nothing about the consequences of tyranny, but they understand how tyrants gain power. They intend to control media, damage the economy, and cripple the…
The threat to democracy
Dan Froomkin is an American journalist worth following. Andrew Coyne is not afraid to speak out, but Froomkin wondered why most people in legacy media don’t appear to believe the…
Trump “metastasizing, mutating, rapidly worsening”
A brilliant essay in The Globe and Mail. Andrew Coyne has spent decades observing and writing about Canada. He has interacted with politicians of all sorts, but none like the…
America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed
Professor Robert Reich discussed the connections between wealth and power. Oligarchs have used their wealth and power to gain control of legacy media and that control is being used to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Alejandra Gomez and Greisa Martinez Rosas offer a reminder that Donald Trump's attempt to pit immigrants against other workers serves only to distract from…
Why Dems Can’t See Through Fascism
This morning, I awoke to hearing an interview of Senator John Fetterman on the radio. It was this interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/john-fetterman-on-trumps-raw-sewage-and-what/id1050430296?i=1000694829127To be clear, I don’t ...
Last honest election
Who needs competition in politics when rules can be rigged to favour people who make the rules? Real democracy is inconvenient for those who wish to govern.
The current world situation
This is a guest post from a school friend who has very serious concerns with the state of the world.
Canadians will never kiss the gangster ring
Charlie Angus, a longtime Member of Parliament from Northeastern Ontario, published his observations about recent NATO meetings in Brussels. American historian Heather Cox Richardson reinforced some of the concerns expressed…
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana stated the words shown here in his work The Life of Reason. With the rising tide of fascism in the USA and elsewhere, we should be…
Defenders of democracy must speak out
I told Michael James, the writer recently featured here, that I wished more journalists had the strength of character to oppose authoritarianism now threatening democracy. Doing so involves professional risks…
Is democracy doomed in North America?
With the Musk/Trump administration ripping huge holes in America's social safety net, it is frightening to observe how major media properties have sagged onto bended knees to pay homage to…
Michael James update…
Mr. James posted a follow-up to the short essay he recently published on Facebook. His first piece was shared tens of thousands of times, but it attracted many hateful responses.…
Demagoguery
On the information platform Medium, Jack Dallaire describes himself: "Former tech CEO turned journalist-in-training. Psychology degree holder with a mission to uncover how tech giants are shaping a digital dystopia."…
Be the People…
Michael James is a widely published journalist who lives in New York. He posted the following on Facebook and I think it is worth repeating.
This Flag Day is Certainly Different
This flag day is certainly different. The threats of economic coercion from Trump and his gang of oligarchs are meant to intimidate and divide Canadians and subjugate Canada to the…
Dither, Dally, and Doddle
If I were looking for a single word to succinctly describe Collingwood Council, it would not be ‘decisive.’ Nor would it be progressive, capable, innovative, or enterprising. I would not…
A Radical Idea to Return to Government by The People Rather Than by One Person
In the United States today perhaps we are seeing the epitome of government by one person, at least in countries that claim to be democracies. Here in Canada ever since…
Democracy is at risk… everwhere!
PhD historian Giordano Nanne wrote that his main focus was "comparative colonialism in the 19th-century British Empire; and more specifically, settler-colonialism in Australia." Nanni's focus may have shifted because he…