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The Left is Left Behind
If the left is right, politically, why isn’t it more popular? One of the scariest aspects of the current economic crisis is that its perpetrators have been by far its…
A Tale of Two Crises
Climate crisis far more threatening than economic crisis Most of us have become preoccupied with the deepening economic slump that has spread like a pandemic across the globe. Whether it…
Especially in a Recession
Private sector couldn’t survive without public spending Many conservative politicians and business executives have denounced rather than acclaimed the government stimulus plans recently launched in the United States and Canada….
November 2008: The Worst Time For the Worst Government
Canadians need a rebuilt welfare state, not a broken one Ralph Nader, the famous American consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, writing recently in The Nation, recalled sitting at the…
October 2008: Poverty Amidst Plenty
Why isn’t inequality a key issue in the latest election? This column is being written in the middle of a federal election campaign, the outcome of which most readers will…
September 2008: The Decline of Collectivity
Triumph of individualism a defeat for society as a whole A few years ago, former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed astonished us by denouncing what he called “the decline of collectivity”…
July 2008: Divide and Fail, Unite and Win
With élites united and majority split, inequality worsens The world’s wealth and resources are being more inequitably distributed than ever before. IBM’s latest Global CEO Study disclosed that the combined…
June 2008: Perception Management
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the lies As someone who worked as a journalist for many years, and later as a communicator for unions and now the…
March 2008: Corporate Power, Voter Powerlessness
Most citizens want corporate power curbed—but gov’ts don’t What are we to make of the recent Ipsos Global Public Affairs poll disclosing that a large majority of the world’s “most…
February 2008: Time For Environmental Keynesianism
Planet Earth can be saved. Susan George tells us how. Over the past four or five years, as the CCPA’s senior editor, I’ve probably read at least 500 articles and…
The Right is Wrong and The Left is Right
Cutting Through the Neoliberal Bafflegab Download 153.84 KB316 pages For the past 14 years, as editor of The CCPA Monitor, the monthly journal of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,…
December 2007: The Rise of Media Literacy
Creating an un-brainwashed generation is a noble calling During the B.C. teachers’ strike a few years ago—a strike over violations of their bargaining rights that later produced a Supreme Court…
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