Call it ‘fascism American-style’ — and be prepared to fight back. By Henry Giroux Henry Giroux is a chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. This article was first published in the Conversation Canada. ‘Trump is the apostle of moral blindness and unchecked corruption, and…
Photo by DonkeyHotey, Creative Commons licensed. The powerful are winning the war against the institutions that protected society. By Crawford Kilian 15 Nov 2017 | TheTyee.ca Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee. ‘If anyone did want to do a Trump-style hostile takeover of Canada, they’d find plenty of eager helpers.’ A year ago, when Donald…
BY SHEILA NORTON SHEILA NORTON IS A JOURNALIST AND CONSULTANT SPECIALIZING IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. PUBLISHED ON MARCH 23, 2017 On March 22, 2017, documents surfaced showing that former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort had received at least $750,000 in illegal payments from former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, who is about to be tried for treason in absentia…
The Trump–Russia story is a story about money laundering in real estate. Full stop. By Mark Sumner Friday Nov 17, 2017 When the investigation into the Trump campaign brings up charges of money laundering and shady property deals, it may seem like a sideline. But it shouldn’t. No one expects Donald Trump to secretly have…
Stunning new development in Donald Trump’s rapidly worsening senility Opinion of Bill Palmer Updated: 7:38 pm EDT Fri Oct 6, 2017 We all saw Donald Trump throwing rolls of paper towels into a church crowd in post-hurricane Puerto Rico in what seemed at the time to be merely a profoundly tone-deaf moment. However, new details…
U.S. Senator makes stunning acknowledgement about Russia, hacked vote totals, and Donald Trump Written by Bill Palmer Updated: 6:23 pm EDT Fri Oct 6, 2017 If you’re like me, you’ve known since election night that the results were essentially impossible. It wasn’t inconceivable for Donald Trump to have won, but it was just about…
Robert Mueller makes striking Trump-Russia move in Federal Court Opinion by Bill Palmer Updated: 5:27 pm EDT Fri Oct 6, 2017 Major news events have often had a way of leaking out on Friday afternoons in Donald Trump’s Russia scandal, sending news outlets scrambling to cover them over the weekends. Now it turns out…
Rex Tillerson begins leaking dirt on Donald Trump Opinion of Bill Palmer Updated: 8:25 pm EDT Fri Oct 6, 2017 It’s Friday evening Oct 6th and, as of this moment at least, Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson still has a job. That’s somewhat surprising, considering the explosive feud that’s developed between the two…
Donald Trump caught complaining that bribery is illegal Opinion by Bill Palmer Updated: 9:01 pm EDT Fri Oct 6, 2017 The feud between Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson has now devolved to the point that Tillerson is leaking stories to the media that make him look like an upstanding guy, while making Trump look…
Donald Trump’s deranged late night meltdown gives away that he knows the walls are closing in on him Bill Palmer Updated: 11:10 pm EDT Fri Oct 13, 2017 Late Thursday and early Friday, Donald Trump began frantically and spitefully trying to destroy everything from health care to the Iran deal, seemingly having concluded that he…
