Protesting Works
Democracy is messy and in order for it to function many voices need to be heard, when some groups can’t be heard they peacefully take to the streets. Despite a…
USA
Ways to Reduce Police Violence
vote This past week saw Americans out on the streets en masse to protest police violence, in particular race-based discrimination practiced by police throughout the nation. Non-white individuals get harassed…
COVID-19 COVIDerup In USA
This is a WTF kind of story. How did corruption get this bad in the USA? Emails and interviews show that after the weeks of C.D.C. rejections, researchers in Seattle…
Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar Step Back and Support Joe Biden-Video
BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar & Pete Buttigieg Are Out BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar & Pete Buttigieg Are Out Posted by The Young Turks on Monday, March 2, 2020
How One Person Exposed Republican Attacks Against American Democracy
As a Republican President in the states is undergoing an impeachment trial the Republican Party is also going under many trials. For the last few decades the Republican Party has…
Poll: Sanders surges in early states as Warren falters
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders is starting 2020 in a three-way tie for first place in Iowa, joining former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend Mayor…
Sanders and Khanna Introduce New Bill to ‘Stop Donald Trump From Illegally Taking Us to War Against Iran’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speak during a press conference following a vote in the U.S. House on ending US military involvement in the war in…
Sinatra’s birthday today: We remember when “Old Blue Eyes” was red
December 12, 2019 1:19 PM CST BY GERALD MEYER Frank Sinatra | AP This article first appeared in Science and Society in the Fall of 2002 and was run…
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017
The MSM has pretty well been the PR arm for CIA’s attempted coup in Venezuela. You really have to wonder about the talking heads who spew the party line…
Wikileaks: Assange Arrested in London
Assange has been a political prisoner for most of a decade and he still is one today, not a criminal hacker. Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we…
Turd Blossom Stinks Up Canada
Preston Manning is a joke. Karl Rove is a war criminal. Imagine living in a world based on the ethical standard of Rove. Could be that we are there now.…
Testimony In USA and Canada
An amazing bit of questioning in the USA by AOC of Trump’s former lawyer, Cohen. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/watch-rep-aoc-gets-michael-cohen-admit-oath-trump-committed-insurance-tax-fraud/ pic.twitter.com/cAahvSg28c — StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) February 28, 2019 Has a single GOP rep tried to…
Labour’s fate and revival in the US and Canada
This week, two labour historians talk about their new books on Canadian and US workers’ movements in the 20th century, books which offer important and practical lessons for unions today.…
Truth
Oh, Billy. We don’t actually practice these things. We only preach them.
How Good Policy Alongside Good Design Improves Lives
Tishaura Jones, the first female treasurer of St. Louis, set out to improve her city through good design. Through her own struggles dealing with the city’s bureaucracy she identified many…
The Face of Barbarism. What, We’re Surprised?
The only thing that surprises me is that we have looked the other way for so long. What did we imagine we were dealing with after this?
What Then Must We Do? Canada’s Place Alongside the United States in Turbulent Times.
Do you ever wonder how close the United States may be to abandoning democracy? Do you ever wonder what that might mean for Canada? Are you familiar with the word,…
America Might Find Salvation in Satire
2016 witnessed the election of Donald Trump thanks in a large part to Russian meddling in the American democratic process. One of the most effective things that the Russians did…
West Virginia teachers strike to win
This episode is dedicated to the recent, inspiring and victorious teachers’ strike in West Virginia. West Virginia teachers went out on strike in late February over low pay and continued…