Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Marc Elias explores what it means to worry that "we're on our own" in the face of a fascist government and crumbling institutions -…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Robert Reich comments on the U.S.' out-of-control oligarchy - while noting there are precedents in turning the tide. Alexander Hurst calls out Elon Musk…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian reviews Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism as setting out the problem of fascists using emergencies both real and contrived as an excuse…
Invitation declined
A candidate for the People’s Party of Canada asked if I would join his podcast for a discussion of government functions. Having no interest in promoting or assisting that party,…
Normalizing Fascism: The Paradox of Tolerance
The Brexit campaign succeeded on a platform that cultivated anger, fear, conspiracies, and racism based on lies and disinformation. Donald Trump’s campaigns have succeeded twice on platforms that increasingly cultivated…
Only When It is Darkest Out Can You See the Stars
These are my summary notes from this excellent podcast from Andrea Pitzer on Next Comes What, "How We Survive This Mess." Pitzer previous wrote a history of concentration camps, One…
Atheists Beware: Trump Will Come For You, Too
While women and immigrants will initially be the main target of the Talibangelists in the upcoming Trump theocracy, they will not be the only victims of Trumpist repression. Among the…
Was the 2024 US Presidential election irrelevant? Yes and no.
Was the 2024 US Presidential election irrelevant? Yes and no. If Trump and Kennedy do end the war in Ukraine, as promised, that will be a giant victory, because it…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Oliver Willis writes about the dangers of a second Donald Trump presidency - and the importance of not conceding core values out of deference…
America, what have you done?
America, what have you done? You chose fascism over democracy. You chose hate over hope, oligarchs over experts, patriarchy over equality. You chose repression, theocracy, violence. You chose anger, lies,…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Pep Canadell and Gustaf Hegelius examine the carbon emissions from melting Arctic permafrost - finding that the near-term effects based on the release…
Fascinate fools, muzzle the intelligent
More than 100 years ago, American labor activist Eugene Debs said, "Every robber or oppressor in history has wrapped himself in a cloak of patriotism or religion, or both." Today,…
It Can’t Happen Here
About 90 years ago Sinclair Lewis wrote his novel, It Can’t Happen Here. It’s uncanny. In the novel “Buzz” Windrip, a senator, a showman, a demagogue, a conman wins the…
Trump: America’s Mussolini
While Trump’s racist, misogynist running mate, JD “Shady” Vance, in 2016 called Donald Trump, “America’s Hitler,” (before he became a Trump sycophant) it was really a dictator too far. Trump,…
Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger
When Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi called Premier Danielle Smith “dangerous,” I thought he was... The post Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Fascist Twitter?
Letter to X (Musk) Letter To Elon Musk, Re: My Suspension From Twitter Twitter, “X”, “bastion of free speech”, suspended my account today, saying this: We’ve temporarily limited some of…
What The World Needs Most
Great discussion, as always, and a great song. (See the link below, to a podcast interview by one of my top three sources.) Now, maybe a song about sisu, the…