Over a dozen First Nations chiefs, band councilors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, to call on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push for Alberta to quit Canada.

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

This is what ecocide looks like.

Can you imagine being the little shxt nozzle leaving our incredible female professors bad course reviews and driving women out of academia

I wish professors would boast about themselves more before class. Have to go and look and find out on your own how incredible they are. I didn't get to take her class on Latin American Economies at WMU, but I knew others who did, and they were highly intimidated by her rigor. As is just and correct

People's Dispatch: "50,000 high school students skipped school again, rallying in over 130 cities across Germany in a second nationwide strike against the reintroduction of military service.

What are the odds that deep down in the Trump Organization, at the end of an unfollowable trail, lies a futures trader making the Organization a fortune in their oil market trades?

This is the week during which the time-change equivalent of returning from a few days in Winnipeg or Chicago causes the papers to run stories where they interview trauma and longevity experts

As I said, you are too pessimistic. I have worked in some of the poorest parts of the world and this is not who those people are. They want peace, personal security, a vibrant and enriching family life, a job that is fulfilling and well paid, and a better life for their children. That's who we are

You are too pessimistic. For all but the slightest smidgeon of human history homo sapiens have been predators but not apex predators. They have taken what they need and nothing more and have shared it. That is hard-wired into our genetics

Fully-funded PhD scholarships in 2026: a list

Via the ever-excellent @rajpatel.org, econometric estimations of the rate of growth of global heating demonstrate that it has ratcheted up significantly

There seems to be conflicting evidence of this: www.earth.com/news/primate...

With that we agree

That I can certainly agree with

I understand where you are coming from -- justification is a zero-sum game, with winners and losers. I for one do not think that that logic is universal to the human condition, because if it was modern homo sapiens would never have survived

That's nine retailers, all totally dependent on a common (American) payment system... another sitting duck, which doesn't even require drone warfare. The previous UK government was in complete denial about the UK's resilience planning - as Covid showed.

The problem with disastrously stupid people becoming politicians is that when they get to power you get to feel their idiocy in your bank account every day. British voters keep voting for idiot after idiot. Decade after decade. Will the next election finally bring some sense with a Green Party PM?

“Trump Has Been Anointed by Jesus” to Wage War on Iran: U.S. Commanders Accused of Promoting Holy War What a load of complete bull shit and utter nonsense.

Yes, they’ve trivialized antisemitism by using it to mean things that they don’t like, like college campuses, enabling them to be actual antisemites while avoiding criticism.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

US Lost 92,000 Jobs in February, With Growth Down 85 Percent Over Past Year

Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?

@viacampesina-en.movimientos.social.ap.brid.gy and @nfucanada.bsky.social are firmly opposed to this unnecessary and geopolitically dangerous war started by the US and Israel viacampesina.org/en/2026/03/l...

"There is no them, only us"

Totally agree

Agreed. There is no "them," only "us"

I agree that they had no shared social template because they lived in different ecologies. This shaped their social relations.I also don't believe in economic determinism; I do think agricultural surpluses facilitated the emergence of hierarchies and this explains the origin of gender inequality

All true. Although my understanding of enslavement on the NW coast was that they had civil rights, that how enslavement operated was different (not that I really understand how)

This only explains what they did, not why

Being a decent human can get you praised and condemned by followers of the same faith because faith is far from monolithic

Indeed. Only if they are anti-human

I never said that in the post

That I completely agree with. But that invention is only 150 years old - a nanosecond in human history. Which says to me - "it doesn't have to be this way" - Steve Forbert, 1978

Absolutely

That may be, but it does not justify the unjustifiable

Totally agree

Too true

None of which justifies the unjustifiable

Agreed

David Hare had the character played by Bill Night say that in the original National Theater production of "A map of the world," back in 1983

The underlying issue is the mobilization of faith for nefarious ends. That is not a problem of organized religion, it is a problem of how institutional structures can allow individuals to use them for nefarious ends

This is absolutely true. In that, they were conventional Catholics. There were exceptions, though. Ernesto Cardenal was one, I believe

Too true. Real patriotism is acknowledging the sins of the fathers and restituting the result of that sin. Like genocide and enslavement, which is the foundation upon which the Americas were not built but reorganized

"The invention of agriculture was the worst mistake in human history" - Jared Diamond. I don't agree, but agricultural surpluses allowed hierarchies and elites to emerge, and cosmologies to support the elite. However, the point here is that this is not innate - it is a choice

True

Every hit in hockey does not generate an equivalent opposite reaction

Humans are not bonobos, though