Critical Perspectives and Reflections

BILL LEE  May 18, 2007  Trump's Criminal Behaviour  There has been shock and dismay in the USA but also in other parts of the world at the brazen action of the American Attorney General, Bill Barr, in the dropping of the DOJ's quite solid case against Lieutenant-General Michael Flynn1, the disgraced former national security adviser to Donald Trump. The general feeling is that this action makes a mockery of the justice system and justice in general in the USA. But none of this should be surprising. The presidency of Donald J. Trump has, from the day he falsely claimed his inauguration crowd was the biggest in history, been littered with evidence of various acts of criminality, from his campaign's fraternizing with Russian oligarchs to the utilization of his fake foundation and his fake university. He has also managed to block, with the help of a supine GOP, pretty much any reforms being enacted or the addressing of serious issues facing t...

by Michael Laxer May 7th 2020 People need to differentiate between two things...the needs of the capitalist economy versus what could be done collectively in countries like Canada with our social wealth. It is absolutely true that with the system as designed now people are desperate to get back to work as they face destitution, homelessness and bankruptcy. It is also true that the capitalists want everything open and want us all back at work tomorrow. Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead is their mantra and so it would be. They could not care less about the lives of workers and especially about the lives of those workers most likely to die...women, racialized workers, marginalized workers. That those workers are far more likely to die is a FACT. That is already how it is playing out. Calls to rapidly reopen are INHERENTLY racist and misogynist, classist and colonialist. If you don't like that fact, I don't really care. People are entitled to their o...