That investment is supposed to actually do something. – Syndicated from http://cmkl.ca

The beautiful image you see is not photoshopped. It is a photo of the heirloom “Glass Gem” maize variety recently rescued by seedsperson Greg Schoen and carefully stewarded by the Seeds Trust. When I saw this photo, I was overwhelmed. This, I…

David Harvey, anthropology professor, geographer and authority on Karl Marx’s work Capital, has just published Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. The book addresses the state of inequality in capitalist society, the role …

The rise of new regions of power in recent decades has provoked much discussion of understanding the post-colonial state. While the global influence of the U.S. and the European Union appears to have diminished in past years, the significance of some p…

The CCPA today released my report: “The Big Banks Big Secret” which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks.  The report bases its estimates on publicly available data from CMHC, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, as well as quarterly [...]

This is what I find excruciatingly bizarre about the way banks conduct their business on loans, credit cards, personal lines of credit and other lending vehicles: That you may have paid back your entire loan to them, but because you haven’t made …

In this, the International Year of Co-operatives, we cannot remind ourselves too often of the tried and true alternative to conventional capitalism. Co-operatives have for generations offered a more humane approach to economic activity than competitive…

Q&A: All you need to know before the F-35 debate hits parliament Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News Chris Wattie/Reuters files Defence Minister Peter MacKay, with Industry Minister Tony Clement trailing behind, in front of a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter during a news conference to announce Canada’s plan to purchase 65 of the jets. Comments Email Twitter [...]

This is about the NDP Leadership Convention 2012, and why I think that democracy has failed. I became a member of the NDP for the BCNDP Leadership race.  My partner and I both joined the Party to support our MLA, John Horgan.  A man of principle, wh…

By Carl There’s a theme in my thinking with respect to this nation that, eventually, some large-scale changes are going to occur, and that they might occur suddenly and perhaps even violently.American culture is based on three things: democracy, f…

The dastardly, dishonourable, relentless war against the natural leaders of society continues without pause.
Recently, the Huffington Post carried this headline: “One out of every ten Wall Street employees is a psychopath, say researchers.”
That was ju…

Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens Are Hookersby “Durka Durka Mohammed”As originally posted on: Celeb JihadMarch 19, 2012The inevitable has finally happened, former Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens are now hookers.As you can see in the ph…

That is the question. Or maybe — how we ought to re-occupy. Though to this point it has been more a question of when, rather than if or how. Once Occupy Vancouver’s camp was evicted, First Nations elders reminded us that winter was the time for recupe…

As the world celebrates women’s achievements, Naomi Klein stands out among the many gifts Canada has given to the world. Her work and passion around globalization, capitalism, human rights and, recently, the Keystone XL pipeline, …Read More -…

The late, great Ernest Mandel who was banned from entering the US for much of his life, wrote what is probably the very best introduction to Marx’s Capital ever written. Though trained as an economist, Mandel had a knack for explaining things a simp…

– Syndicated from http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/

Food for thought … [T]he economists’ tragedy: The ambition to create the ultimate model results in a theory of human behaviour which cannot hold unless the humans populating the model operate like inanimate algorithms following slavishly a part…

The recent ratification of a four-year collective agreement with CUPE 416, which represents the cities outside workers, has resulted in less job security and benefits, and ultimately a reduction in public services. Mayor Rob Ford declared that the 416 …

There can be little doubt about the importance of the Occupy movement to our recent political discourse. It succeeded in getting a significant amount of media attention and it forced politicians of all stripes, including those on the Right, to acknowle…