Politics and its Discontents

The other, of course, is the love of the gun that indelibly stains America and which few are talking about in the aftermath of the Buffalo m...

Almost two years ago I wrote a series of posts on racism, starting with the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy horribly tor...

The CBC's Neil Macdonald has written a searing assessment of Donald Trump that leaves little doubt that the Americans elected a racis...

In Part 1 , I discussed the murder of Emmett Till, the exoneration of his murderers, and the tactics used by the racists of 1955 Mississip...

From this tragedy large, diverse groups of people organized a movement that grew to transform a nation, not sufficiently but certainly mea...

The New York Times provides a very useful glossary of the terms favoured by white supremacists these days. Be sure to check it out. As well...

Although issues of justice and equity have concerned me throughout most of my life, as I move through my final decades I find matters becomi...

History teaches us that when political ideologies mutate into forms of state religion, those who stand in opposition or refuse to 'get...

This, courtesy of our friends at Raw Story:

Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombard...

We cannot be silent in the face of this:

As Montreal Simon's recent post makes abundantly clear, Kellie Leitch is a pathetic human being. Her recent embrace of divisive 'd...