Firstly I would personally like to take responsibility for the disgusting, disheartening events in Québec city this Sunday. I covered the incredible social movements in Montréal for about 8 years. Starting in 2009 on Radio CJLO. In 2012, I was part of the groundbreaking team at CUTV that not only covered but nurtured social protest.... Continue Reading →
Truth and Capitulation; A Canadian Colonizer’s prayer for the next 150 years
"We can, if we have the wisdom, light a fire in this place and time, so bright and clear that it will be seen by all the children of man. Many of whom still huddle in darkness and misery in every corner of the earth. Let our actions be a blazing beacon of hope in a world of Donald Trump and YouTube beheading videos. Let us be the example to our children of what is possible for humanity when people of reason and good will work together in good faith."
Why progressives should stop fighting for the “Deep State” and take advantage of DJ Trump’s chaos
Glenn Greenwald as usual hit it on the head. There is a war right now between the "Deep State," as defined by Canadian academic and former ambassador Peter Dale Scott, and the Trump administration. For all of his odiousness DJ Trump is not responsible for the most minute portion of the human misery handed out... Continue Reading →
A letter to my American cousins
You seem to be afraid that Donald Trump will make America more violent and less tolerant. Yet you presently live in a country where in large parts any basement-dwelling, mad-at -the-world teenager can open-carry a loaded assault rifle into a family restaurant. The only way the management of the restaurant could refuse this individual service is if he were gay and it conflicted with their religious beliefs.
Turkish coup, A well planned job possibly with ties to US intelligence.
The last few Hours have seen a stunning coup in Turkey. This wasn't a surprise to everyone this was expertly planned and executed. The chief of staff is under arrest and internet and phones have been cut. President Erdogan is in hiding and martial law has been declared all within a scant few hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfTUhxX_-l8... Continue Reading →
Why Canada should consider retiring its Armed Forces, forever.
"The definition of insanity is repeating the same action again and again and expecting a different outcome. So perhaps it is time for our society to re-examine its relationship with institutionalized state violence. “Et decorum est pro patria mori " is the fundamentally flawed holdover of more primal times and neither this nation , nor the rest of our race can continue to accept the morality, legality, or indeed utility of allowing organized slaughter on a mass scale. Pretending its not an insane, primal rending of flesh because the participants wear matching outfits is increasingly not the path to the future."