Every leader gets their day
Mr. Berlusconi is departing as leader of Italy and the citizenry reacts: From the New York Times' coverage: “This is the most dramatic moment of our recent history,” Ferruccio de…
Economics
George Monbiot explains national bankruptcy
The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen, George Monbiot, The Guardian "If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every…
Matt Taibbi is beginning to get it about the Occupy movement
Most political/cultural/populist movements begin in back rooms, in clandestine meetings over a period of years. Many times the resultant movement looks little like the disorderly chaos of the initial gatherings.…
Tough On Crime For Thee, But Not For Me
You’ve gotta hand it to those Harpercons. Really. I mean, only they can declare victory after pleading guilty to avoid trial for Senators Finley and Gerstein. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have…
Upcoming By-Election In Bonaventure is Something Quebec Voters Should Be Watching And Why I am Rooting for The Liberal Candidate
The by-election in the Gaspesie riding of Bonaventure will be held on December 5–less than a month from now. It’s a by-election, much like last year’s by-election in Kamouraska-Temiscouata, will…
London Ontario: Home of the Intolerant
London, Ontario becomes the first Canadian city to turf occupiers.
Hey, Andrea Mrozek! Why Don’t You Practice what You Preach?
No, not at that dreadful site, Prowoman Pro-fetus. Her other activity, as manager of research and Communications at the Institute of Stepford wifery. You, boys ‘n’ girls, perhaps know it…
Koch Konnections (aka “If They Can Do It, We Can Too!”)
If the Koch Brothers can do it, we can (and should) too!
Prop Betting and Hedging Bets
As a poker player, talking about betting with non-poker friends often illustrates some pretty basic misconceptions with the process. Correcting some of these misconcep...
Funny how things come together #nlpoli
First, there’s a new post at the Monkey Cage that notes a discussion in economist circles about public discussions of economic subjects: … economics lost communication with policymakers and practitioners…
Scott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this.…
Second Iraq war hero wounded by police at Occypy Oakland. Right wing cheers.
If anything in the last few decades has scared the right wing out of its comfort zone of pretend patriotism it is the Occupy movement. Not the first black president,…
The Price
Republicans hate Keynesianism – unless its military Keynesianism sustaining southern and gunbelt constituencies with Military industrial complex jobs that require a constant state of fear mongering and international belligerence to…
BBC speechless as trader tells truth: “Collapse is coming… and Goldman Sachs rules the world”
Move your money now – put it into gold, silver, and if you can, more importantly, a piece of land that can feed your family, tools for self-reliance such as…
Dream No Small Dreams – End Poverty
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the…
Another Gentle Coup …
Rumour has it that Greece leader Papandreou's days may be numbered. Is it because he believes in democracy or because he doesn't want to cave to lenders?
Why Greece?
The Greek economic situation has bankers terrified. This article explains why.
Occupy Montreal: a lesson in dealing with itinerants and homeless
As the Occupy movement rolls on, it must deal with those who come not so much to share in the communal building of a new form of alternative resistance…
Quebecor And RLQ’s Chou-Chou, Eric Duhaime Has Hit a New Low–Enough With The Canadian Arrogant Complacency!
Yes, that would be the same Eric Duhaime, the one who begged the feds, not once, but twice, to somehow intervene in the construction scandal woes in la Belle province,…
More Money Wasting Symbolic Monarchist Trinkets From the Harpercons
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, ol’ Stevie Spiteful has changed the names to Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy, as well as issuing some edict to Canadian embassies world…