Just recently newly elected U.S. president Donald Trump got into a bit of a tiff with the CIA. While standing in front of the monument to fallen C.I.A. personnel, he criticised their role in the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s role in the Benghazi affair, her private email server, and the alleged hacks on Democratic National…
In Edmonton, an Addition Elle employee was fired after her employer saw a Facebook post of hers that included the word ‘fat.’[i] Addition Elle is a clothing store that provides clothing for plus size women. Connie Levitsky, a third-year MacEwan University student, had posted a ‘body positive message’ in support of other overweight women. She…
For the longest time I’ve wanted to read the Hunger Games books. I’ve finally had a chance to do and think they’re absolutely fabulous. I enjoyed them immensely. I’ve still only seen the first movie, not the proceeding two. I decided it would be best to read the books first, before seeing the movies. Now,…
… and it’s Not in the First World. Revolution is no easy task. It involves a massive upheaval that nearly, or does bring the county
I think it’s interesting to read through works by other Marxists and sometimes notice when an author stumbles upon a Third Worldist kind of argument without realizing it. In this passage from Zombie Capitalism by
I recently had a chance to read a post by Michael Roberts on the idea that the increasing automation of manufacturing (or at least heavy manufacturing) would not lead to a leisure society as depicted by Keynes, or perhaps to some degree by the Zeitgeist movement. The post was excellent but I had some thoughts…
As manufacturing has left the urban center and pretty much everywhere else, the lack of jobs is creating a severe gap in value generation. This leads to lower incomes for First World working and middle class people which translate to a lack of taxable income. This lack of tax revenue is causing many cities infrastructure…
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