President Trumps Economy With Accuracy on Display
This is f*cking AWESOME!!! Turn up your speakers. Wait for the ending! pic.twitter.com/wG20LuQXYT — Jim From San Diego (@jimfromsd) February 5, 2020
US politics
On “Unalienable” Human Rights
Screen capture, launch of the Commission on Unalienable Rights On Monday, July 8th, the U.S. State Department announced the launch of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, which is intended to…
Jon Stewart Calls Out Congress For Slashing Budget To Assist Responder Victims-VIDEO
Longtime host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart delivers the truth to an out of touch Congress. His messaging is dead on the money. Perhaps we could bring him to…
Stalin’s ghostly influence today
I recently finished reading the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s magisterial biography of Josef Stalin: About 1,700 pages so far, with another 400 or so in small-type notes. Brilliant stuff,…
Trump, Bolton Are Beating the Drums of War
It has been clear for well over a year that Trump is a pathological liar, a cheat, a sneak and an incomparable threat to not only the US but the…
Assange Arrest-‘Now He Is Our Property’
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Goodbye, Information Age
“Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now,” is the headline of an article by Italian philosopher and professor Gloria Origgi, published recently on Aeon Magazine’s website.…
America’s time machine
We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin… our homes are covered with mortgages, labor impoverished; and the land concentrating…
Every Canadian should read Bob Rae’s column in the Walrus
It is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: "It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly" The whole text…
Every Canadian should read Bob Rae’s column in the Walrus
It is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: “It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly” The whole text…
Every Canadian should read Bob Rae’s column in the Walrus
It is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: "It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly" The whole text…
how to help families separated at the u.s. border
As we all sit helplessly agog at the latest spectacle going on in the US, here are some organizations to which you can donate (or volunteer) to help. How To…
Mad at Donald Trump? Money talks (to him)
I don’t think I need to go into details again to my readers about Donald Trump’s antics at the G7, or him and his advisers basically equating Prime Minister Trudeau…
marching for their lives: the student activism around gun violence gives us reason to hope
In my continuing (and usually failing) goal of remembering to write about things here, instead of just posting to Facebook, I feel I should write something about the student organizing…
Why are American evangelical Christians so cruel?
The article in Forbes’ Magazine, March 11, didn’t ask that question I used in my headline. Instead, the headline simply stated the piece would explain, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So…
Fire and Fury reviewed
Dysfunctional. Childish. Self-centred. Narcissistic. Ideologically myopic. Illiterate. Cranky. Capricious. Arrogant. Scheming. Petty. Ill-educated. No, I’m not writing about our local council (although, yes, all those words apply equally to The…
Perils of shopping online
Thought I’d try that new millennial thing this year. You know that online shopping thing using your computer, that the kids are all into today. Saved a ton of time,…
If Moores racism hadn’t trumped his pedophilia, he’d be a senator today
If eight African American women had come out against Roy Moore, their voices wouldn’t of been heard, because Moore is a god fearing, good old Roy and in Alabama black…
the worst part of trump is not trump
The freak show that is the Trump presidency gives us so many things to lament, and mourn, and goggle at. But for one organization, it is a singular gift, valuable…
Full text of Trump speech announcing US withdrawal from Paris climate accord
Announcing the United States’ unprecedented withdrawal from Paris climate accord, Donald Trump cited the “draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country.” The post Full text of…