Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Henry Giroux discusses how the greatest risks arising out of the coronavirus pandemic can be traced back to neoliberal political assumptions. And Patrick…
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The Truth Is Not Out There- It’s Right Here
Fox Mulder of the X-Files got it wrong. He believed that the truth was 'out there;' in fact, it is right here, but as the Mound of Sound said in…
Distracted Thinking
I am something of a creature of routine. For example, all things being equal, my early morning ritual consists of retrieving the Toronto Star from my mailbox and reading the…
Deliver Us From Evil
Why do we tolerate Saudi Arabia when the kingdom, and its Sunni state allies, seems determined to deliver Yemen into the control of ISIS and al Qaeda? Gwynne Dyer writes…
"Wicked and Tragic Events" Do Not a War Make
The first instinct of the chickenhawk is to proclaim the existence of a state of war where none actually exists. By “chickenhawk” I mean Canada’s very own prime ministerial closet…
No, It’s the Environment, Stupid.
David Suzuki once observed that we cannot have a healthy economy without a healthy environment. It shouldn’t require a PhD to grasp that yet it’s astonishing how so many well-educated…
Gwynne Dyer – Blame the Sky Gods
Gwynne Dyer thinks it was a nasty trick. It was, after all, supposed to be the poor and vulnerable little people of the equatorial zone that were hammered by climate…
Gwynne Dyer on Our Future
I have been writing lately about environmental degradation and the bleak future that seems to await us. On that theme, (and because I have a busy morning ahead of me)…
Crass Manipulation About Iran’s Nuclear Intentions
Those who believe that the public is being as crassly manipulated about Iran as it was by the lies that served as prologue to the Iraqi invasion will find two…