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About Journalism, Blogging, Truth, and Democracies

About Journalism, Blogging, Truth, and Democracies

Mainstream journalist’s conceits are becoming more patently ridiculous. That is, that they constitute a ‘fifth estate’, that they are somehow important to democracy, that we actually live in a democracy.

Trumped Up

Trumped Up

It is mere speculation to talk about how all this would work in a real democracy. There are no real democracies, at least not national democracies, in the modern world. The empire crushes any attempt to launch one.

The Lights Have Gone Out Again

The Lights Have Gone Out Again

The monuments need to be torn down. They are really monuments to Canada’s shame. All these wars were wars of empire which we should have wanted nothing to do with.

Inquiring into Covid Inquiries

Inquiring into Covid Inquiries

The worst thing about covid inquiries is that they tend to promote the idea that the pandemic is something which happened in the past. The full effects of covid are yet to be felt. The coming era may come to be called, “the covid age”.

About Canadian Patriots, China, History, and the Drug Trade

About Canadian Patriots, China, History, and the Drug Trade

They are available as critics of financial capitalism. So, they can be useful when other criticisms are not so available. There are other criticisms of Financialism from an authentic left perspective, but they are not as well funded, and often heavily suppressed.

About Migration and Immigration

About Migration and Immigration

We do not right the wrongs of mass displacement and migration by supporting the plan of those who caused the problem. We do not save A by wrecking B.

Shit Eating Ontario

Shit Eating Ontario

A thorough reconstruction of government has become necessary and it will not happen through the present structure. For those people for whom this is still a particularly radical idea, Ford and friends have plenty of shit yet to serve up to you.