Both incidents remind us: when leaders abandon restraint, atrocities follow. From Vietnam to the Caribbean, the lesson is clear — unchecked orders to “kill everybody” lead to moral collapse. The past is prologue. Eventually, the bill comes due. Always. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊

Roaming Charges: Kill, Kill Again, Kill Them All - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/r...

#OtD 7 Dec 1928 Noam Chomsky, legendary American linguist, radical, social critic, activist and member of the @IWW union was born in Philadelphia. Chomsky contributed the foreword for our first book, available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...

Trump has *always* intended to make Canada a vassal state. Trudeau warned as much when he said that the US wants our minerals into a hot mic. But I don’t think it’s fully appreciated, not least by our PM, what exactly that implies: that US-Canada relations are now a zero-sum game.

I guess he read the National Security strategy memo.

"The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Donald Trump's FIFA Peace Prize has been described as pathetic and disgraceful. Which is exactly what it is.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified. People say it abolished slavery, but it didn’t. Slavery still exists as a punishment for a crime. Alabama fast food restaurants have incarcerated people working for little to no money. The Louisiana State Penitentiary has inmates in fields.

"Matthew Yglesias’s “The fox in liberalism’s henhouse” tells a somewhat compelling story about how a certain style of “updated anti-racism” has spread through liberal institutions." www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-henhou...

#Trump is unleashing death squads on the high seas and legalized racist gangs in the US cities. #ICE

"The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

"SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The authoritarian nature of Smith's UCP government and its use of the Notwithstanding Clause. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

'To understand Smith’s ideology is to situate it within a long lineage of anti-central-planning and anti-welfare-state politics that have defined Alberta conservatism for more than 60 years.' canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Amid Winnipeg’s widening divides, airport-style checkpoints and police-driven safety strategies are reshaping key public spaces. Unions, caught between member safety and broader justice commitments, are becoming unlikely champions of securitization.

Ahmed al-Sharaa promised a new Syria after Assad’s fall. Instead, a year later, the country faces renewed repression, rising sectarian violence, and growing foreign control. The revolution’s hopes have been extinguished.

For nearly three decades Rwanda has waged war in Congo, committing systematic atrocities against civilians and using its military and proxy rebel groups to traffic Congolese gold and tungsten. After Trump's latest 'peace plan,' US political, military and financial elites are queuing up to profit.

"Twenty-eight cohorts with a total of 977,434,207 participants proved eligible. We revealed a 40 % increased risk... of mental disorders in patients with COVID-19 compared with non-exposed individuals." #covid #mentalhealth #brain #health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is one of my favourite columns this year because it’s of utmost importance and is not getting the coverage it deserves www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Oh please do bankrupt a white nationalist group. The Patriot Front acts like that’s not an admirable thing to do. I’m all for it

Liberatory municipal finance open.substack.com/pub/davidiba...

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

The "AI" companies know this and have been engaging in circular financing. Additionally "AI" is NOT intelligence. Large language models have been around longer than most people know, Jensen's rebrand of this use as "AI" is not only inaccurate, but just a marketing change.

But that would prevent some billionaires profiting all that 450B. The public and uninformed politicians hear 'costs,' but the neoliberal policy pushers hear 'profits' and also justifications for not spending money on public goods that actually help level the social order, because there's no money.

'Genocide has been rebranded as "ceasefire".' x.com/Jonathan_K_C...

ProPublica found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. Read the full story: propub.li/44HU4Tp

"Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero." #covid #pregnancy www.propublica.org/article/covi...

The claim of an employment boom among native-born workers is a Trumpian illusion deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumpian-n...

I think this particular headline speaks for itself. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

7 out of 10 workers have experienced harassment or violence on the job. Help Make Work Safer for All Workers in Canada canadianlabour.ca/respect-at-w...

The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/29/t...

Pandemic Programs Worked, So Business Elites Killed Them Off jacobin.com/2025/11/welf...

I was delighted to join the great @DaniAtomicus on her stellar podcast Public Health is Dead. Kayli Jamison, a Long COVID activist in Canada who I much admire, was also featured. I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

The Canadian government supports the government that did this. #cdnpoli

Clearer footage: Video: نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון via X (@nirhasson)

🎶 It's just a jump to the right And then a step to the right Put your hands on your hips Move even more to the right But it's the oil drill thrust That drives real progressives insane Let's do the right shift again Let's do the right shift again 🎶

Actually, using inclusive language is good, supporting asylum seekers is good, being an empathetic person is good. I won’t be swayed on these truths because this degenerative capitalist society of ours thinks the wind is blowing the other way

Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity” www.madinamerica.com/2024/04/rese...

Btw, if you're a Carney loyalist who has rationalized everything he's done and told the rest of us to keep quiet, you own what's happening now and what will happen in the next election.

one thing i feel like you’re seeing across nato countries with this new 5% of gdp defense spending goal is an attempt to pull more civilian agencies under the defense umbrella so it counts toward the goal. feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.

we mustn’t forget the meaning of thanksgiving: transmitting highly infectious diseases to your guests

Desperately clung-to hypothesis: Carney is acting purely in the interest of average Canadians and is a 4D chess playing genius. Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries. Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔

Another day, another study that suggests this virus is not good for our kids to keep catching www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends! Just kidding, stay the F inside.

Ehud Barak: U.S. And Canada Can ‘Join Hands’ With Israeli War Industry www.readthemaple.com/ehud-barak-u...

NEW: Israel's genocide in Gaza is 'not over' despite the announcement of a ceasefire, human rights experts have warned 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The Welfare we spend too much on is billionaires. Now a person working in London 40 hours a week earning the Minimum Wage £28,392 a year pays 12.4% tax on their total wage. 12,590/28,392*0.28 Yet nearly 25% of people earning £8m or more in the UK pay less than 1% tax.