Canadian Authoritarianism: Then and Now
Something has been rotting in the State of Canada for a long, long time.
Empire State of Mind
I’m having trouble getting this song out of my life. Vancouver is a fine town, but aside from a nice mention in Tom Cochrane’s “Life is a Highway” there’s not much we could do to make a civic anthem like this song. It feels like lots of things: Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” Neil [...]
Welcome Back to Civilization, America!
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The Venezuelan-Russia-USA Dance
We should all be noting a few things about escalating dance between the USA and Venezuela. A few months ago, after 58 years of being a part of the larger US Second Fleet, the USA reconstituted its Fourth Fleet to enhance its presence in its traditional sphere of influence: Latin America, perhaps the most successful [...]
How Many More Wars Do You Want, Anyway?
Pick a number, then vote McCain: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w] Some context: Sarah Palin said two things which can be pegs for an attack ad of this kind: 1. War with Russia could happen over the Georgia conflict 2. Soldiers going to Iraq are fighting the people who killed thousands of Americans on Sept. 11. Share the Love: [...]
The Imploding US Economy, or the Economic Stimulus Package as Canary in the Coal Mine
Roughly 20 years ago I was writing about how the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement was like handcuffing ourselves to a drowning man. I’ve watch the American Empire defeat the Soviet Evil Empire. I’ve watch it champion Fukuyama’s end of history, neoliberal globalization and outsourcing, and the rise of soft fascism in the w.Caesar era. I [...]
Note to TransLink: Your Riders Are Not Customers
I went to the TransLink website just now to search for the word “customer”. I found 376 references. I also have noticed that in recent days a canned announcement pops onto Skytrains regularly asking “Skytrain customers” to not leave their lame faux-news free daily newspapers [Metro, 24] lying all over the trains cluttering them up [...]
Revolt, then Dance
It’s one thing to try to stop a “peaceful” country like Canada from continuing its imperial designs in Afghanistan [let alone Haiti]. It’s another thing to see traction in your efforts. Our beloved Prime Sinister Harper recently squeaked out “Canada’s New Government”‘s backtrack on occupying Afghanistan to virtually no media fanfare. The thing to do [...]
What is Your Definition of "Easily" and "Overwhelmingly"?
On the homepage of Robbins Sce Research, it says: “Harper popular as PM, Canadians easily support Afghan extension. Jun 29, 2007″ The poll it links to says Canadians support an Afghan extension based on this question: “The United Nations is desirous of having Canada extend its participation in Afghanistan past the current term ending in [...]
Harper: Canada to Leave Afghanistan in 2009…You Missed it, Right?
Well, after a weekend to thoroughly digest Prime Sinister Harper’s speech to mark the end of Canada’s sad and waning 39th parliament, I feel moved to grumble about something he didn’t bother to mention formally and officially. I was going to talk about how he frames taxation as slavery from which we need emancipation, despite [...]
A Few Truths
A delightfully eerie piece about American military propaganda is engaging minds at Alternet.org right now. It is called “Rumsfeld’s Fake News Flop in Iraq” and is reprinted below. I have a mere few reactions: Osama bin Laden is America’s Emmanuel Goldstein from Orwell’s 1984. Not wanted, dead or alive. The longer he is at large, [...]
London Bombings: One View
I think this about sums it up, except that the US/UK imperialists don’t have a monopoly on terrorism: “Terrorist Blair, who assisted The US Empire in raining death down upon the Iraqi populace, though Iraq harboured no weapons of mass destruction and posed no direct military threat to either Britain or the US, and is [...]
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