Barry Stephenson

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Got a chapter with @philofwrite.bsky.social and @aysed.bsky.social on the media and Jan 6 coverage in @imogenrichards.bsky.social’s new book. www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...

>60% of liberal voter and more than 40% of conservative voters know Israel is committing a genocide. You want to atone for your neoliberal years? Get started. Lead.

@mark-carney.bsky.social advice: call the Gaza genocide a genocide. It is the right thing to do, and, if you’re Davis speech is to mean anything, the moral and reasoned thing to do. Then, van weapons sales. You might also expel the Israeli ambassador. The people will support you.

Q. How do we end oligarchic control of our political economy? They are kinda ruining everything for everyone all the time, at a quickening pace. Of all the bad ideas we’ve come up with, handing the reigns to the 0.1% is right up there.

Rand Paul’s views are often pretty awful, but he’s also at times right. Hs’s right here.

When i was young, Alberta (like every other prairie provinces) had a public telecom. We could have that again. Privatization of everything these past 40-50 years has not made life better. This includes the privatization of education, which is continuing at an accelerated pace.

Newton’s fourth law.

Belgium: thousands take to the streets to defend public education and young people's future In Brussels, between 6,500 and 8,000 people took part in a mass public march to protest against the austerity measures affecting education and young people in Belgium. The demonstration sought to mark...

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America the ugly.

Time to time and compromises must be made. But genocide isn't complicated. It isn't something to make one's peace with. We support an on-going, escalating genocide. Seeing as we committed one, I guess that is understandable

A fine speech, sure. But he can't utter the words 'Gaza genocide,' nor prevent weapons going to Israel. So, what do the words mean, really? Isn't the sign still out? The speech was the hanging out of the sign, unless actions inform and follow the words. Of course geopolitics is complicated from

Necropolis.

Wars aren’t fought to win so much as they are fought for profits. Endless
War is the goal.

I believe they have been released and are in Jordan.

A photo of (left to right) Sadie, Nikita, and Devoney standing together wearing Kaffiyehs

According to the flotilla tracker & Al Jazeera, the Conscience (along with other flotilla ships) has been intercepted.

Time to get on the phones and call our MPs to demand Canada ensure the safe return of the Canadians on board including NL activists Devoney Ellis, Nikita Stapleton, & Sadie Mees.

Watching the sham replies of America’s chief law enforcement officer in Senate yesterday, it really did hit home that the institutions people can appeal to to take action - generally named ‘the government’ - are useless because they’ve really been taken over. How this ends won’t be pretty.

A strange start for “climate competitiveness” The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions — or Canadians’ tax dollars.

The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions, or Canadians’ tax dollars, writes Janetta McKenzie www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/07/o...

‘Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide.’

How hard is that to agree with? And yet we don’t.

Italy is, I believe, 3rd on list of countries that sell arms to Israel. The people recognize that’s a problem. Most people, in most countries recognize it too. Among UN’s recent recommendations:

2 Canadians detained in Israel after forces intercept Gaza flotilla: Global Affairs Canada | CBC News Global Affairs Canada says it's aware of two Canadian citizens who have been detained in Israel after forces intercepted a flotilla headed to Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's blockade of the encla...

I guess the @mark-carney.bsky.social government can’t be bothered to mention Israel’s violations of law in the action against the flotilla. Or offer support for those Canadians on board-you know, the best of us.

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The Relevance of the Beautiful to Our Ecological Crisis This essay examines the impact of “aesthetic marginalization” on environmental degradation by leveraging Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics to explore the Anthropocene. It argues that modernity’s de...

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YouTube video by paulderoma1 F THE CC - Steve Earle

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I’ve long thought this paragraph from Raymond Williams’ Modern Tragedy pretty lucid regarding the disavowal of our own complicities.

It's like the Stanford Prison experiment is going on again, except it's the whole country.

Ugly it is down south. It is going to get worse. The only avenue left is impeachment.

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