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…
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…
Something Russian this way comes (reprint): Robert Harrington | 12:01 pm EST January 15, 2020 It’s a disjointing sensation, awakening one morning and seeing a building I was in just two scant nights before (and actually possess keys to) featured on the international news. It’s a sobering reminder of what a small world it can occasionally be,…
Donald Trump’s base can’t buy a clue During the plague years of 1665-1666, Isaac Newton fled Cambridge for his home in Lincolnshire and, as would any bored 23 year old, co-invented a method for the assembly and disassembly of infinitesimals that later became known as calculus. Calculus came in handy when, so the mythology…
Donald Trump is hiding a dirty little secret Donald Trump is hiding a dirty little secret that will end with his imprisonment. For someone who sold out his country years ago, Trump has continued to pretend to work towards “America First,” despite all evidence to the contrary. While it is clear that Trump illegally inherited nearly…
Donald Trump is ripping you off even worse than you thought Shirley Kennedy | 6:04 pm EDT August 15, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis (REPRINT) Trump and his Republican cronies continue to turn against the middle class. Sam Berger, a writer for MarketWatch, tells us how this is being done, but he doesn’t tell us the “why.” What’s in…
Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta’s Dubious Climate Claims As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots. By Mitchell Anderson 3 May 2019 | TheTyee.ca (Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee.) ‘Whether or not the rest of the oil patch has…
CHILD ABUSE AND TORTURE IN AMERICA In May and June 2019, the U.S. government under the Trump administration has rounded up and jailed 60,000 migrant children. They’ve left kids in cars for 39 hours. They’ve had a lawyer argue that they’re not responsible for providing these kids and their families with soap and toothbrushes to…
