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And then everything changed…
The world is now totally focused on the democratic rebellion in Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak sends out the army to deal with demonstrators and what happens? The soldiers, including officers, joined with them, hugging them, kissing them, shaking hands and sharing posters and banners calling on Mubarak to resign, and demanding democracy.
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Why Tax Cuts Make Us Weak
I don’t think I have ever re-cycled a column before but the whole question of tax cuts and all the issues it involves never really changes. In November, 2007, I wrote a column for the Tyee and rabble focusing on Conservative finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s five year tax cut plan. Here’s what I said then. Nothing has changed—except now we have a huge deficit to deal with, and the corporate tax cuts are even more irresponsible.
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Canada in Afghanistan – The Big Lie machine
Our tragic and pathetic Afghanistan adventure is a dramatic commentary on the state of Canadian politics and democracy. If it were just a matter of embarrassment it would be bad enough. But every day we stay there we actually make things worse.
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The CEO and the New Feudalism
Few developments in our era of savage capitalism are so powerfully symbolic of the new feudalism than the obscene compensation paid out to the new economic elite: the CEOs of the most powerful corporations in the country.
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Harper’s Pipeline Nightmare
What kind of year in politics is 2011 going to be? Very likely another year (or at least ten months) of gridlock at the federal level, with no sign of any so-called game changer on the horizon.
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Postscript on the New McCarthyism
Stephen Harper’s remarks at the recent (and second) international conference on the new anti-Semitism were so extraordinary for any prime minister to make—essentially declaring his greater loyalty to Israel than to Canada—that other aspects of the second international conference of the group got by me. And, I expect, most others.
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The deadly, unforeseen consequences of inequality
Last May, the OECD put out figures comparing infant mortality rates in countries around the world. Perhaps the biggest story of all the figures were those attributed to Canada. This country has always boasted of its social stats. But not this time.
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Counselling murder? Heck just apologize.
So, I guess if you want to break the law—say, counseling someone to commit murder—you might want the judge to be the CBC’s ombudsman.
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Carole James: Mission accomplished?
Hearing Carole James declare that the challenge to her leadership is over—because the NDP’s Provincial Council backed her—reminds me of George Bush on the US air craft carrier with the huge “Mission Accomplished” sign behind him after the initial attack in Iraq. Talk about not getting it.
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Citizen Psychopaths
No, if we are ever going to save the earth from climate change, pollution, species decline, and the stark-raving-madness of the consumer culture we will have to radically reform the corporation. Anything less and we can kiss the planet goodbye.
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