Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Paul Crider discusses how the Trump regime is setting up the U.S. for explosive internal violence - while planning to blame its victims…
Health and Safety
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Krugman writes about the Trump Republicans' decision to impose hunger on tens of millions of Americans - with lasting consequences on people's…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Chance Phillips is rightly outraged that the corporate media is letting the Trump regime hand immense power to white supremacists without even calling…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sonya Angell examines the connection between extreme weather events caused by the climate breakdown and adverse health effects, while noting that there's a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Blayne Haggart and Eric Duchesne point out that Mark Carney's idea of nation-building reflects little more than barely warmed-over 1980s neoliberalism - making for…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- A.R. Moxon discusses our role in observing and shaping the world around us with the help of the analogy of a submarine whose…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jon Milton et al. discuss how the first speech from the throne under Mark Carney was based on Donald Trump's wish list rather than…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Adrienne Lafrance discusses how the clock is ticking - but not quite yet run out - to check Donald Trump's assertion of absolute…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Michael Harriot writes that the U.S. is past the point of being able to talk about mere threats to democracy, and needs instead…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Linda McQuaig writes about Catherine McKenna's rare (if belated) honesty about the extent to which Canadian policy is dictated by fossil fuel tycoons. And…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Stefan Labbe reports on new research showing how the business-driven use of lead in gasoline resulted in large-scale poisoning in the U.S. (and in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the immense damage and disruption which we can anticipate if Greenland's massive ice sheet melts due to global warming, while…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Daron Acemoglu highlights the dangers of a new gilded age - particularly as increasingly large concentrations of wealth are taken for merit or wisdom.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Paul Rogers discusses the imminent threat of more extreme weather events, shortages of the necessities of life and increased division and inequality if the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jonathan Watts reports on the effort by scientists to account for the unexpected acceleration of global warming. And Fiona Harvey reports on the immense…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lament that inequality continues to get worse fifteen years after they warned of its myriad harms. And George Monbiot…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Novinite surveys the numerous countries facing unprecedented heat warnings as the most extreme effects of the climate crisis hit earlier in the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian O’Boyle discusses how Ireland’s choice to act as a tax haven for the ultra-wealthy has done nothing to help its citizens. And…
Life in plastic
One of the more significant subjects I’ve included in my link posts over the past few years is that of plastic contamination. We’re learning more and more about the accumulation…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Markham Hislop offers up his apologies for cheerleading for the TransMountain pipeline – both due to its immensely increased price tag, and…