Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot opines that the UK has ceased to be a functioning democracy as unelected people exercise unchecked power. And Bruce Livesey wonders…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Harvey writes that as we rebuild after the coronavirus pandemic, there’s no reason to pretend that prosperity requires continued reliance on greenhouse…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – PressProgress discusses now polling showing that a strong majority of Canadians favour a broad transformation of our society in the wake of the…
Setting The Record Straight
If you watched Planet of The Humans, executive-produced by Michael Moore, like me you probably came away profoundly disillusioned. The film essentially says that the environmental movement and its advocacy…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maxwell Smith, Ross Upshur and James Downar warn us against mistaking a temporarily flattened curve for a final victory over the spread…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeet Heer writes about the class war already emerging in competing responses to the coronavirus epidemic. Ricardo Tranjan makes the case for…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monika Dutt offers a reminder that some of the best investments we can make in improving public health are aimed at social factors:…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich comments that Democrats who failed to recognize and respond to a rigged economic system share in the blame for the rise…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot recognizes that our climate policy needs to be based on maximizing our shift to a sustainable society, not on trying to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out that what normally gets claimed as a higher life expectancy arising out of capitalism in fact consists of…
The Last Resort – Eco-Extremism
Sooner or later it was bound to happen. Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that if those holding the reins of power choose to treat environmental activists as extremists then so…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Mann writes about Australia’s deadly lesson in the dangers of a climate breakdown. Ian Gill offers a reminder that we may soon…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – George Monbiot makes the case for popular sovereignty mechanisms to supplement systems of representative government which fail to reflect the will of the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Moscrop writes that the Libs’ choice to break the promise of electoral reform to instead lock in an unfair and unrepresentative…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In an excerpt from his new book, Martin Lukacs examines the disappointment Justin Trudeau has inflicted on anybody who thought his carefully-cultivated…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – George Monbiot argues that it’s time to cap the amount of wealth any person can accumulate, while highlighting the importance of accepting…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Richard Partington discusses the rise of inequality and some of the options to combat it. And PressProgress points out the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robinson Meyer writes about the latest IPCC report on how our climate crisis endangers the land we rely on. And George Monbiot responds…
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…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that the wealthiest few have responded to the rise of populism by funding their own killer clowns to assume power…