Politics and its Discontents

The police protect and serve - they really do . It's just that we aren't the ones receiving those services:

For those who can stomach hypocrisy, I highly recommend this video in which we are told by a wealthy banker that the true source of our trou...

That is the title of Chris Hedges' latest column on truthdig.org. Despite the attempts to dismantle the Occupy encampments, attempts t...

News has spread quickly about the cowardly breakup of the Zucotti Park Wall Street Occupiers. Here is a link to a livestream covering the p...

Gene Robinson, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, addresses...

Even if you only have time to watch the opening statements by Chris Hedges and philosopher, activist and professor Cornell West, this video,...

Thee are many who assert that the Occupy Movement has no relevance in Canada because we have a social safety net and other measures that pro...

That is the title of Chris Hedges' latest column at truthdig.org, written after his arrest for sitting on the sidewalk in front of Gold...

Prior to his arrest the other day for sitting on the sidewalk in front of Goldman Sachs, Chris Hedges issued the following indictment of th...

If you advance to the 30 minute mark of this video , you will see Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and activist Chris Hedges , along with othe...

Robert Hackett, a professor in the school of communication at Simon Fraser University and a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Po...

In what can only be regarded as a perversion of the Occupy Movement, a couple in Long Island, New York has paid a $975 patent application fe...

Just back from my hiatus, I found a very recent Charlie Rose interview with the always articulate Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman of Democracy...

For those who have not yet read Chris Hedges' Death of the Liberal Class , his latest essay on truthdig, entitled A Movement Too Big to ...

In my days as a high school English teacher, one of my favourite books to teach was John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the story of dis...

Hint: it's from a Fox affiliate.

Enjoy this satire that really isn't a satire about the 1%:

With the world watching, and over 300,000 names on a petition to stop it, the planned 'cleanup' of Zuccotti Park, formerly called Li...

There is a surprisingly good article (but only online , I think) in the Globe and Mail by an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy A...

In an online article entitled This is what democracy looks like: Occupying Wall Street and Bay Street , Gerald Caplan and Amanda Gryzyb disc...