In 2014, the Canadian polling firm EKOS asked respondents whether they agreed with the following proposition:
If the current patterns of stagnation among all except those at the very top continue, I would not be surprised to see the emergence of violent class conflicts.
EKOS found that 57% of Canadians endorsed that view. Continue Reading ›
The Green Party of Canada declares that it “begins with the basic premise that all life on the planet is interconnected.”
Yet, the Greens’ newly released electoral platform, consisting of eighty-two pages, says remarkably little about Canada’s relationship with the rest of humanity. Continue Reading ›
This week, on CKUT FM’s Under the Oliver Tree, I discussed the Trudeau government’s efforts to facilitate the theft of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers:
At the People’s Mobilization Against the U.S. War Machine in New York City, I spoke to Madelyn Hoffman of Rage Against the War Machine about the failure of leading Democratic presidential candidates to challenge the Pentagon’s vice-grip on American foreign policy and military spending: Continue Reading ›
This week, in New York City at the People’s Mobilization Against The U.S. War Machine, I spoke to Joe Jamison of the U.S. Peace Council about the corporate media’s refusal to examine the strong connection between militarism and climate change: Continue Reading ›
After this week’s UN Climate Summit, I spoke with my Real News colleagues Dharna Noor and Marc Steiner about right-wing attacks on Greta Thunberg and the failure of world leaders to rise to her admirable challenge: Continue Reading ›
For The Real News Network, I spoke this weekend to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters at the People’s Mobilization against the U.S. War Machine in New York City. Continue Reading ›
