Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Noah Berlatsky discusses how Donald Trump is imposing a recession on America at large while dispensing obscene riches for his cronies, while Mona…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Max Fawcett discusses how renewable energy will power the future despite the attempts of oil tycoons and their pet politicians to keep us…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ed Burmilla highlights Donald Trump's appeal to bored and self-indulgent people who are prepared to change their identities and voting patterns based on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thusday reading.- Ross Andersen discusses how the Trump regime's combination of funding cuts and anti-knowledge ideology is destroying the U.S.' position as a scientific and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Leana Hosea and Sarij Pathirana report on new data showing that tens of thousands of oil slicks every year are going unreported and doing…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich discusses the challenge of trying to live ethically and morally under circumstances where bullying and cruelty are being systematically normalized. And…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Adam King discusses how the income gap in Canada has reached more extreme levels than ever before. And Henry Farrell writes about the reality…
I’m Supposed to Write a Blog Post Today
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…
I’m Supposed to Write a Blog Post Today
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…
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…
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 political demise of Donald Trump, which suddenly appears possible, would herald big changes for UCP
Well, you didn’t exactly hear this first here, but it sure is starting to look like Donald Trump is done like dinner! The political demise of the U.S. president, if…
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…
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…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Kelsey Ables reports on the latest Oxfam study showing that the world's wealthiest few could end poverty dozens of times over by paying their…