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Bill Hicks. 9/11.

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I wonder how Bill Hicks would have reacted after 9/11. George Carlin called a temporary truce. Chris Rock sheepishly complained of the McCarthyism of “support the troops”. Bill Maher chickened out of his cowardly-cruise-missile opinion, and later went on to tear into cultural relativism for an audience eager to hear that Our Way is better [...]

Canada: No Kyoto, No Veils.

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Headlines: Canada to withdraw from Kyoto; Canada bans veiled faces at citizenship ceremonies…. How did we get here? A public backlash against a sensational, but otherwise minor, case of manipulation, and now we are here with ten years of Harper, no Kyoto, no Wheat Board, gutting of various social/constitutional programs, and almost complete capitulation of [...]

Congo: The Rebels’ Funding

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As always, follow the money. And paramount is the question of who funds the rebels who terrorize their own people. In the case of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda have been mentioned. And so have the mining companies. This great interview on The Real News names the mining companies involved in Congo. Reportedly, they give private [...]

Remember the first election of Canada’s Stephen Harper, and the role of RCMP’s Zaccardelli? The late, great James Travers compared Canada to police states getting their leaders ‘elected’. Watching The Wire, the interplay between the heads of the Baltimore police department and the mayor reminded me of the same thing.

Yet another Quebec town has gotten paranoid about its precious bodily fluids: Gatineau has laid down the this-is-how-it’s-gonna-be for the sandniggers. The first town that did something along these lines did not even have any such residents! The enemy had never been encountered, except on TV. (This reminds me of Dr Helen Caldicott calling Reagan [...]

National Mythologies

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Every nation has its mythologies, especially with respect to its founding. But I’ve often wondered whether United States’ delusions are particularly chronic in this regard. It has its head up its ass! And it seems to have found a couple of tabs of acid there, which it has licked, and now looks up at the [...]

Jon Stewart’s Dennis-Miller moment?

What was the real reason why Iraq was invaded?

Hatred of Islam is the inevitable consequence of not facing American foreign policy.

The Christian Republic of Iran

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A land swap between heathens and fundamentalists.