Peter MacKay and the Cage Boy Horror Show
I have always had trouble taking Peter MacKay seriously. I've always thought of him as a wannabe Margaret Thatcher, who couldn't quite pull it off.There is a reason I call…
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Demystifying Economics – Or, Rescuing Humanity From Death By Shared Delusion, Part One
To start with, it should be made clear that it is unwise, to say the least, to disparage mysticism. Mysticism, in the true sense, means to dive into, and deeply…
Viral Fads? Collective Escapism Through Displaced Fear?
I could be wrong, but every indicator to me so far is that the latest virus scare is vastly over-hyped, as they almost always are. Still it’s at 2,800…
Coronavirus: The latest in over-hyped threats & DANGERS
Read my essays, Danger and Delusion, and, Reality Check, on my blog and Twitter. Poverty, hunger, and obesity are vastly bigger killers than any infectious disease. Boost your immunity…
Degeneration, Collapse, and Rebirth
What we are facing is systemic degeneration: ecologically, culturally, spiritually, intellectually, psychologically, socially, and biologically in terms of degenerating health and shortening life spans. This is the slow-motion collapse of…
On Reading Petronella Lee’s Anti-Fascism Against Machismo: gender politics and the struggle against fascism (Review by Butch Lee)
available from leftwingbooks.net This is exciting. Because it starts to break away from the once fresh but increasingly dead end of what had become macho antifa. There’s not only false…
THE IMPERIALIST STATE OF THE MULTINATIONALS IS NEITHER FASCIST NOR SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC (Red Brigades, 1978)
In the transition from armed peace to war, the revolution/counter-revolution confrontation grows increasingly direct and generalized, but there is not, as some claim, a transformation of the democratic state into…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot writes that the fossil fuel companies most responsible for endangering our living environment are also polluting our politics: …What counts, in…
Will Climate Change Lead To Fascist Hell?
It's going to be a really hot day in France, and the beginning of a heatwave in Europe that some are already calling Hell Week. Authorities have urged children and…
Andrew Scheer and the Growing Fascist Darkness
For more than two years I have been trying to warn Canadians that Andrew Scheer is a leader like no other this country has ever known.A far-right ideologue who is…
Why Andrew Scheer Must Never Be Prime Minister
It was one of the most appalling spectacles I have ever witnessed, a deplorable assault on the very foundations of our democracy.The sight of Andrew Scheer, the Leader of the…
Andrew Scheer, the Con Media, and the Far-Right Menace
This should have been the biggest story in Canada yesterday. The sight of Andrew Scheer addressing a gathering on Parliament Hill that was riddled with racists and other far-right extremists.Members…
Andrew Scheer and the Fascist Connection
The first time I saw Andrew Scheer ranting and raving about the U.N. Global Compact for Migration, I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Or where he got that…
Donald Trump and the Growing Darkness
Afterwards just about everybody agreed, it wasn't one of Donald Trump's better days. He was up at 3:14 am angrily tweeting out this: Which let's face it, wasn't very Presidential.…
Why We Should Be Scared About Fascism in America
When I was in high school my friends used to make fun of me for regularly predicting that fascism was coming to America.And telling them that if they thought it…
Now Can We Call Doug Ford A Fascist?
As you know I like to portray Doug Ford as a political ape, a brutish demagogue drunk on power who is leading Ontario to disaster.But now I think I may…
Doug Ford and the Harperite Conspiracy
It was a scene I never thought I would see in Canada. It could only happen in Doug Ford's Ontario.And it can only be called fascism.Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government…
Doug Ford and the Day of the Dictator
When I saw the look on the faces of Doug Ford and his Con handler, I didn't need to turn up the sound on the TV to know what he…
Justin Trudeau and the Right-Wing Assault on Canada
Justin Trudeau has had to deal with all kinds of crazed hecklers as he travels across the country.There's one being removed from a town hall in Quebec City last January,…
The Day Saudi Arabia Declared War on Canada
I was relaxing in the little park next to the marine police station, on the last day of a long sweltering weekend, when Callum came running up with the shocking…