The elephant in the room It’s ironic that the party that employs such a lovely animal as an elephant as its defining symbol is oblivious to its presence in the room. I’m referring to global warming. Republican climate science denialism is that party’s actual defining symbol. That, and the fact that the Republican party…
Working towards Hitler Robert Harrington | 3:00 pm EST February 13, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis In his seminal two volume biography of Adolf Hitler, British historian Ian Kershaw proposes a plausible solution to a puzzling conundrum. Students of the period have long understood that Hitler was very much a lazy dictator, involving himself in the details of government…
For Donald Trump, the cruelty is the point By Robert Harrington | 2:01 pm EST February 11, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis Whenever I think of the human quality of largesse, sooner or later I think of Abraham Lincoln. It was Lincoln who appointed some of his enemies and rivals to his cabinet. That his generosity…
RE-PRINT of Robert Reich @ Inequality Media An impeached president who is up for re-election delivered a State of the Union address to the most divided union in living memory. But why are we so divided? We’re not fighting a hugely unpopular war on the scale of Vietnam. We’re not in a deep economic crisis…
Why is BC Hydro blocking a renewable revolution? WRITTEN BY DAVE MILLS JANUARY 30, 2020 Local communities could generate affordable, clean power – and free themselves from fossil fuels. To an energy monopoly, that’s a threat. In the New York Times bestseller Drawdown, groundbreaking research by one of the best scientific teams ever assembled concluded that…
He’s Urged a Guaranteed Income for Years. Are We Ready Yet? Hugh Segal on his new book ‘Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty.’ Christopher Guly 7 Nov 2019 | TheTyee.ca Christopher Guly is an Ottawa-based journalist and member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery. Former Tory senator Hugh Segal: ‘A completely affordable and…
What every liberal needs to understand in order to win Bill Palmer | 12:01 pm EST January 31, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis In politics, the liberals hold all the cards when it comes to facts, virtue, and truth. So why do the conservatives so often win? They don’t have to worry about things like facts, virtue, and truth, so they…
DOOMSDAY No one can say how much longer Donald Trump will be in office. But because Trump is still in power, “It is now 100 seconds to midnight.” Such was the ominous headline Thursday from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after moving its Doomsday Clock ahead 20 seconds. In a press release, Bulletin President…
Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, which had Trump-Russia fingerprints all over it, is a bigger scandal than ever Bill Palmer | 11:19 pm EDT October 8, 2018 (reprint from Palmer Report » Analysis) It was an instantly explosive scandal, with ramifications deep and wide enough to shake American democracy to its core – and then almost as instantly, the mainstream…
Anthony Kennedy and his son were even more deeply involved in Donald Trump’s Russia scandal than we thought Last year, even as Donald Trump’s presidency seemed to be on its last legs, and the Republican Party seemed to be inching away from him, something happened that caused the GOP to rush back into his…
