The New World Order…by Rob Harding
The B.C. teachers’ dispute, like all such events, is best understood when placed in a larger context. In this case, the context is truly immense, and despite the assiduous efforts of Campbell and his yes boys in the corporate media to dismiss the dispute as a cash grab by a spoiled and greedy “lawbreakers,” the [...]
Approaching the End of Public Education: The Sequel
Unions–especially public sector unions–are a diarrhea stain for advocates of neoliberal globalization efforts to maximize free markets, minimize government social programs and spending, and commodify the commons. Unions posit that human beings–after a century and a half of human rights advances–deserve basic rights such as the right to collectively organize into unions to negotiate wages [...]
BC’s Public Education: Another Step Closer to the End
In an article (illegally copied below) that is remarkably free of inflamed rhetoric, The Province has presented some interesting issues in the news that the Campbell neoLiberal government has–in typical Orwellian fashion–legislated a “contract” for teachers with Bill 12: The Teachers’ Collective Agreement Act, which is neither collective, nor an agreement. I’ve already written once [...]
The Rise of Executive Tyranny
“In our great democracy, the Supreme Court is the guardian of our constitutional freedoms and the protector of our founding promise of equal justice under the law. Over the past five years, I’ve spoken clearly to the American people about the qualities I look for in a Supreme Court Justice. A Justice must be a [...]
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