Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your election day reading.- David Moscrop discusses the dangers of allowing the Libs to claim the mantle of "left" while under corporate control. Martin Lukacs warns that…
inequality
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford offers a reminder of the problems with treating raw GDP as a proxy for well-being or social development. Dario Radley highlights…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jill Lawrence discusses how the Trump regime's combination of corruption, greed and poor judgment is tearing the concept of the heroic tycoon to shreds.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Toby Buckle notes that the most accurate predictions for Donald Trump's second term have been the ones which warned about the worst (and even…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Stephen Marche discusses how the overriding objective of the U.S.' corporate elite is absolute impunity. Ariella Markowitz writes about the decades-long astroturf effort to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write about the rise of end-times fascism - and its connection to the long-standing project among the wealthiest few…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jason Sattler rightly notes that by the time Donald Trump is removed from power in the U.S., there's going to be no meaningful…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Amanda Marcotte discusses how the Trump regime's war on empathy reflects its underlying misogyny, while Andrea Woo reports that Canadian researchers are scrubbing their…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The Guardian weighs in the folly of the U.S.' self-removal from the global trade system, while Paul Krugman writes that there's no method to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Jim Stanford points out that tariff threats shouldn't be an especially daunting prospect for a Canadian economy which already consists primarily of the production…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Moira Doneghan discusses what the leaked Signal war crime planning among several top Trump regime officials says about how decisions are being made within…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ali Bustamente rightly challenges Donald Trump's claim that people should be happy to endure a regime-induced recession as an economic purge by pointing out…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Kenneth Vogel and Shane Goldmacher discuss how the Trump regime is using the power of the state to attack any opposition voices and…
Impoverishment of thought
In an age of extreme media coverage and immediacy, the associated defeat of intelligence is worrying. Genuine intellectual debate all too often disappears in favour of ersatz ideas dominated by…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Randi Weingarten calls out Elon Musk for robbing workers to pay for tax giveaways to the billionaire class. And Sharon Kelly traces the Trump…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- The Guardian discusses how Canada is on the frontline of Donald Trump's attacks on any concept of a rules-based international order. Franklin Foer writes…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- George Monbiot discusses the nihilism behind the new Trump regime which seems positively eager to see the world burn, while Jessica Wildfire writes that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar discuss how the new Trump regime is governing based on the business model of a slumlord. Joshua Zeitz writes…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Greg Sargent writes about the utter villainy of Elon Musk's using the largest concentration of wealth on the planet as a tool to condemn…
America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed
Professor Robert Reich discussed the connections between wealth and power. Oligarchs have used their wealth and power to gain control of legacy media and that control is being used to…