Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Justin Fox explores why it took the economic field in general (with some noteworthy exceptions) decades to start dealing with burgeoning inequality. And…
military industrial complex
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Reich discusses the unfairness of requiring workers to take all the risk of precarious jobs while sharing few of the rewards: On…
USA #1 when it comes to ‘violence and preparations for violence’
Interesting article on Stop the War coalition site this week entitled Yes it’s true, the United States really is the greatest country in the world – but in what? The…
Stephen Harper and the Big Business of War
In the fog of war there are some things about Stephen Harper's plan to use airstrikes to defeat the ISIS crazies that are already abundantly clear.One, they make him look…
ISIS Threat: Let’s Refuse to Be Scared
I recommend that you read this timely analysis from Crawford Kilian as published in the Tyee Canada’s response in Iraq will be ‘noble,’ Harper says. What should that mean? By…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
* Yes, President Eisenhower was a Republican.
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – No, we shouldn’t be surprised that the Harper Cons are allowing defence contractors to deliver nothing at all. But is it really so…
Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base…
Harper Sounds Islamophobic Dog Whistle, Again, Just In Time to Commemorate 9/11
In another move back in time, Stevie Spiteful plans to reintroduce two anti-terror clauses that were originally introduced in 2001, but expired in 2007. Here they are! One allowed police…
Oh Laur-rie Hawwnn! Me Thinks You Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do!!
Yes, nice to know that the military industrial complex is still very much a concern on the feeble minds of certain yahoo Harpercons. According to a cable released by Wikileaks…