Dead, non-dead, or walking dead? The global financial crisis and neo-liberalism
Dead, non-dead, or walking dead? The global financial crisis and neo-liberalism. Filed under: Uncategorized
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Video: The incredible shrinking Kingston hospital
Following Monday’s demonstration outside the former Kingston psychiatric hospital, Providence Care is now telling staff that the job cuts and bed closures taking place are not about funding? Really? Even…
Marshall Berman, 1940-2013
Reblogged from Corey Robin: Political theorist Marshall Berman, who was my colleague at the CUNY Graduate Center, died yesterday morning. When I heard the news last night, my first thought…
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Making of Global Capitalism A groundbreaking account of America’s role in global capitalism By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of…
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown By Philip Mirowski After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead—stronger than ever At the…
Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on…
Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on…
Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat
In memory of the coup in Chile, on this day in 1973. Filed under: Uncategorized
Bus-Taker’s Guide To The Galaxy
I helped invent and host a city bus tour to a movie theatre from the Riddell Centre on Tuesday evening. It went very well, even though our bus was 20…
Perram House – Oct 5 public memorial of services lost
Public services are lost one at a time, often incrementally. Take the Shelburne Hospital. Once a partner site of Headwaters Health Care, services were removed from the community one-by-one until…
Mental health – is living in the park really an improvement?
KINGSTON – Tracey Newton has worked at the old Kingston Psychiatric Hospital for 25 years. In that time she has seen many changes, including the tightening of access to the…
The end of Peter Shurman
I also suspect he won’t run again after this. Big question: Who in his party leaked the expense claim?
Stand ALL Yr Groundz (UPDATED)
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
Stand ALL Yr Groundz (UPDATED)
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
I’ll See Your Bombs, and Raise You Climate Change….
Harper offers Obama climate plan to win Keystone approval Sources say PM willing to accept emissions reduction targets proposed by the U.S. By Chris Hall, National Editor, CBC News Posted:…
Kingston forecast for Monday: 18, sunny and loud
On Monday we will be in Kingston for the third time this year to talk about issues at Providence Care – Mental Health. Last February we stood with staff and…
Passwords Holding the Web Together
I noticed another person with a CIBC 2-factor authentication fob on their key chain last week. It displays a seemingly random number that actually only a special server knows, so…
Peter Shurman’s self-inflicted wound
Read the full story here. In essence, Shurman wanted a place to retire so he bought a new house 150 kilometres away from his riding. That’s right, 150 kms away…
Greens Catch Harper in a New $100M+ Lie
The Canadian government is spending our tax money on Enbridge’s impossibly risky scheme that will ruin BC’s coast. “Documents obtained from Environment Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans…