Stephen Lewis, a longtime politician and diplomat, has died at 88. Days earlier, his son Avi was elected leader of the federal NDP.

Yes, the 'security dilemma' is standard fare in first and second-year university courses. Needs to be more widely appreciated.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

WTF are we doing here?!? Sanctions for the victims and moral support for the aggressors who have their sights on us as well. I hate having morals while my country is on the wrong side of history!

organizing gets the goods

It seems like Carney just tells every audience whatever he thinks they want to hear. His fans will call that "pragmatism" or "4D chess", but it's indistinguishable from being disengenuous and untrustworthy.

1) No, "undue hardship" is NOT a "rare" legal doctrine. 2) Yes, Coca Cola is full of shit here. www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran trolls President Trump after he said the Strait of Hormuz could be controlled by "me and and the Ayatollah."

1/ We're in yet another oil shock. It will produce yet another inflation crisis. Another recession is likely. It's a great time to remember that actually...the future is electric! We need to invest in Canadian security, stability, and energy independence. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

NEW: “Canadian unions and workers have nothing to gain from war in the Middle East or anywhere else. Their interests lie with workers in Iran and across the world,” writes Adam King in this call for unions to mobilize against the war in Iran. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-unio...

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

Read @dennislytton.bsky.social today on why we need a 2028 campaign to limit the presidency

A more genuinely difficult question is what's The Jam's greatest song. I think it's either Down in the Tube Station at Midnight but I will definitely hear out Ghosts of Town Called Malice.

So - astonishingly - Iran has been paying attention to history, notably the Millennium Challenge exercise, which was originally an Iran war game, and in which US Marine Col. Paul van Riper, playing the baddies, handed an invading US force its hat with both its ears in it BY DOING THIS.

"To accompany his Primer on Augustus Pablo in The Wire 506, Derek Walmsley compiles a selection of the Jamaican melodica wizard's lesser-known cuts …" Augustus Pablo — More rockers from the vaults:

To paraphrase FDR, activists now need to make him and the council keep the promises.

bring back bulky sweaters for rock bands

Remember years ago Steve Bannon said the goal is to "dismantle the administrative state," which would allow tyrannical rule by big business. Chaos is the means to that end.

“Socialism or barbarism” is a phrase we‘ve all heard many times. But it’s never felt it so viscerally true before now.

The premier of Nova Scotia’s ENTIRE plan is based on oil and gas extraction. He just said it on air. That is his only plan. Our biggest industry is tourism and he just cut $$ to tourism, arts & conservation (all reasons why people come here).

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

I'm back from a week off, anything happen while I was away? Oh yeah, that. Well fortunately Naomi Bethune has supplied for me an entire history of U.S. intervention in Iran. Something to share with your underinformed friends: prospect.org/2026/03/09/i...

R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.

Posting this for obvious reasons. Believe that the USA will be experiencing "blowback" in the near future. Our imperialist hubris guarantees it. #NoWarButClassWar

“POTUS ordered the bombing of an Iranian naval destroyer returning from a visit to India and killed hundreds of sailors. The Third Reich never did this to Britain (and vice versa) during the second world war. Sailors in the sea were rescued. What is the barbarism emanating from the White House?”

If Spain sticks to it, buy Spanish!

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez reiterated Spain's opposition to the war in Iran, condemning the war for causing suffering among civilians while “lining the pockets” of a select few and for other leaders “to use the smoke screen of war to conceal their failures” – an apparent jab at Trump.

Here is my latest -- probably only of a few (fewer probably than 5!) news pieces that is critical of the federal government's military spending bonanza. truthout.org/articles/cri...

Viva España 💪

This level of primary turnout for Democrats in Texas yesterday is super heartening--both Talarico and Crockett turned out substantially more voters than any R candidate.

#OtD 4 Mar 1919 Canadian troops in the British Army awaiting demobilisation mutinied in Wales, looting the camp & improvising makeshift weapons. Events left 5 dead & 25 facing heavy prison sentences, but authorities accelerated their demobilisation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1045...

Carney continues to arms the Saudis the UAE and Netanyahu. He supported Trump's attack on Venezuela, has been mostly silent on the forced starvation of Cubans. He supports Trump and Netanyahu murdering Iranian children. Does Carney have a red line? If he does I'd love to know where it is.

yeah, let's buy that.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT. Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

"Holt has claimed to reverse course on the STU-UNB merger plans and Mount Allison privatization scheme, but that may be little more than sleight of hand to distract from the real target: a classic neoliberal transfer of wealth from the public sector to the private." NEW piece on NB Holt debacle.

Every year I teach Hedley Bull's version of Neomedievalism from the late 1970s. Looking forward to this! "Regional blocs" particularly relevant in the contemporary period.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Again, I'm glad I wrote why this team sucks eggs. I'm glad you're going to the State of the Union because it'll be fun to see you squirm as you become openly aligned to this regime. History won't be kind. awakhttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/us-hockey-olympics-gold-trump/

Good. It's called backbone. And the men's team is "showing their ass" by agreeing to celebrate at the White House after this jackass mocked the women's team. They are a national embarrassment now and they can go kick rocks. www.huffpost.com/entry/usa-wo...

Neoliberals are a curse on a functioning society. It’s just a different kind of conservative. Even more sinister when they sell you on big lies. The conservatives are gross, but at least they tell you with a straight face what they mean to ruin.

At St. Thomas University they have told the community the cuts could be as high as 15% of the budget for universities in New Brunswick. Meanwhile, they are funneling $45 million to the largest corporations in the province to ‘offset tariffs.’

Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less. The impact would be devastating. Please share, NBers.

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape