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COP 21: There Is a Way to Beat Climate Change
COP 21: There Is a Way to Beat Climate Change The Paris Climate Change Conference might be the turning point in addressing climate change at the international level. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) is the annual meeting of the 195 nations that make up the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. The […]
It’s Too Late to “Save” the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save Ourselves
It’s Too Late to “Save” the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save Ourselves Yet another United Nations climate confab is about to commence, this time in Paris, France, where the tragic backdrop of terrorism, war, and a growing immigration crisis now grips the country. It’s fitting that global warming talks should happen here, considering the role […]
Can’t Anyone Fix This?
Can’t Anyone Fix This? The legacy mainstream media has a collective brain like dog’s — it exists in an eternal present, so that whatever’s happening right now is all there is. Thus, Hillary’s performance in the first Democratic debate, being as bad but not worse than her competitors’, means she has a lock on the […]
Buying Power
Buying Power They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters. Across a sprawling country, they reside in an archipelago of wealth, exclusive neighborhoods dotting a handful of cities and towns. And in an economy that has minted […]
Hope, Power, and Delusion
Hope, Power, and Delusion Jeremy Corbyn has won the race for leadership of the Labour party. But Greek and Spanish activists advise against placing too much faith in political parties. Jeremy Corbyn has won the race for leadership of the Labour party, and the anti-austerity movement of the UK rejoices: “Finally we will see change”. […]
Yahoo Finance Drops in From Mars to Explain Big Money Hasn’t Bought U.S. Politics
Yahoo Finance Drops in From Mars to Explain Big Money Hasn’t Bought U.S. Politics A recent New York Times/CBS poll found that 84 percent of Americans think money has too much influence in U.S. politics, and 85 percent want the campaign financing system completely rebuilt or at least fundamentally changed. Even politicians themselves will tell you that big money controls […]
The War Against Change
The War Against Change Last week’s post explored the way that the Democratic party over the last four decades has abandoned any claim to offer voters a better future, and has settled for offering them a future that’s not quite as bad as the one the Republicans have in mind. That momentous shift can be […]
Canadian ‘Totalitarianism’? Hope Can Win, Says Author Thomas King
Canadian ‘Totalitarianism’? Hope Can Win, Says Author Thomas King Governor General award winner talks election politics and the power of words Cherished author and former New Democrat candidate Thomas King insists he’ll stay out of politics this pivotal election season. But on the heels of his Governor General award-winning novelThe Back of the Turtle — set […]
Meet Canada’s Latest Liberal Man-Boy
Meet Canada’s Latest Liberal Man-Boy Can You Really Trust Justin Trudeau? Here we go again — the Red Book 3.0. Yet another build-up of Liberal election promises just like the ones we’ve seen before (though I admit the one about changing the voting system might be hard to dodge). The most infamous, of course, was […]
Missing from Canada’s Political Debate: Natural Security
Missing from Canada’s Political Debate: Natural Security 25-year review of Canada’s eco-stewardship reveals neglect across party stripes. Canada’s prime minister is pre-campaigning with a strong-on-security message. His government is taking measures designed, among other goals, to protect energy infrastructure from what the RCMP has called “violent environmental extremists.” As I write, enormous forest fires burning out of control across […]
Online partisan trolls a new fact of elections, international politics
Online partisan trolls a new fact of elections, international politics Some foreign governments are paying trollers to provide internet propaganda. Are political parties? It was the kind of story that was almost guaranteed to bring out the internet trolls. On April 15, Margaret Trudeau, wife of the late prime minister and mother of the current Liberal […]
The 2014 Elections by the Numbers – Who are the 1% of 1% Driving American Politics?
The 2014 Elections by the Numbers – Who are the 1% of 1% Driving American Politics? That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an […]
How America Became an Oligarchy
How America Became an Oligarchy The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners. […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country?
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country? Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that, and let me put what I do understand about it in a nutshell: based on developments in our […]
