Baldwin Lafontaine @technocratskid

The lobby group for euthanasia in Canada is private medicine in a trench coat. Specifically, Galen Weston's private primary care system. Private medicine has no use for people who need care and can't pay for it, like people with disabilities. Better if they "choose" to die.

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Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur

4 days ago

I object to MAID because it is a money-saving scheme by a neoliberal government to reduce spending on disabled people it views as economically useless. I have zero belief in any god or any church or any divine doctrine. My humanity & ability to understand systems demands I object

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So when are @CANADALAND and @JesseBrown going to report on the labour dispute between CUPE and OXFAM? I thought they were interested in the way charities treat their employees.

@bovineflu The muted smooth flavour of 100% Ontario Virginia flue cured tobacco is infinitely better for the T zone than the harsh acrid burley cure of the Yankee marlboro or god forbid camel. Macdonald Original Regular forever.

@Shoshana51728 @JamesHeartfield It can't be surprising that a bourgeois failson is felt to be sympathetic to a society of now unreal unmet material expectations. Someone on the imperial reform ticket is hardly likely to be one doing well in the current system configuration.

Hungry? Craving schnitzel, pierogi or cabbage rolls? Here are six Eastern European spots to try in Hamilton thespec.com/life/food-and-…

@1800ghostman Anglo Dutch fruit farmers are the worst. I have not been to Burlington in 137 years.

Yes, it's very notable in Homer how great men drive all the action, with no interference from other, much more powerful forces, often associated with natural phenomena and frequently female.

Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy

4 weeks ago

Homer is the original Great Man Theorist of history. He’s not telling you the Trojans lost the war because of climate change. He’s telling you the tale of Hector, Odysseus, and Achilles.

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Everybody’s working for the weekend 🎶🇨🇦

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Turkey proposing a $1.2B “military-use-only” FUEL pipeline Turkey → Bulgaria → Romania to “help” NATO’s eastern flank? Not natural gas → so not a direct competitor to the US LNG “Vertical Corridor” through Greece. But IF it’s petrol/diesel fuel… Turkey is one of the world’s biggest importers of discounted Russian crude, which it refines,rebrands as Turkish and sells abroad making a hefty profit Imagine NATO forces in Bulgaria, Romania & beyond running on Russian fuel quietly rebranded as “Turkish” — while everyone turns a blind eye and comments her “altruism” to help allies? Classic Ankara: turning “alliance support” into energy leverage .making money at the same time 🔗 to @zerohedge report below in replies

Christopher Nolan asked the Oracle of Delphi, "Will audiences love my adaptation of the Odyssey?" And the Pythia replied, "They will discuss it non-stop for months before it even premieres." And away he went, glad in this heart, poor fool.

Proud to share this piece on Bahrain and the current political moment I’ve been working on. Many thanks to Kareema for their immense contribution as co-writer and Vincent as editor. Please do check it out and support and subscribe to North South Notes.

Vincent Bevins @Vinncent

a month ago

The view from Bahrain — by Kareema Abbas and Aamer — North South Notes northsouthnotes.org/p/the-view-fro…

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Corey Robin: “Dylan Riley in the New Left Review today stating crisply and cleanly, in three paragraphs, one of the major problems with Sven Beckert's book on capitalism, and the underlying worldview it expresses (though Riley doesn't say a word about Beckert): "One of the most important distinctions for understanding the dynamics of the current world and its historical emergence is that between capitalists and capitalism. Capitalists are economic actors oriented toward profit. As long-distance merchants, financiers of princes, and tax farmers they have existed in a wide variety of societies for thousands of years. Capitalism, in contrast, is a system of all-round market dependence that emerged much more recently and in a much more geographically restricted area (in the Low Countries and England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). It should never be forgotten that capitalists generally loathe capitalism, especially its competitive constraint. They would prefer to make profits through rent-seeking and political extraction without risking their wealth on uncertain investments. Indeed, the most obvious threat to capitalism today comes not from the working class, but paradoxically from capitalists who with increasing success have figured how to profit by plunder rather than productive investment. These points are far from original, but they are not sufficiently recognized for two interconnected reasons. The first is the suspicion of comparison. For many scholars, even posing the question of why, for example, England and the Netherlands made the transition to market-dependent agriculture is a sign of incorrigible eurocentrism and a retrograde failure to grasp that capitalism was a globe-spanning system ab initio. That naturally leads to enormous pressure to describe all types of profit-making activity, especially merchant colonial activities, as an emergent form of capitalism. The second reason is a more specific pressure to describe various labour-repressive agriculture systems, especially slavery, as capitalist. To support this claim it is endlessly demonstrated that the agrarian elites of these systems kept careful books, were oriented to profitability and entangled in sophisticated systems of finance. Both tendencies, the anti-comparative one and the recasting of capitalism as any economic system organized around profitability, derive from a position of political weakness. Capitalism seems immune to an immanent critique which takes as its starting point the system in its pure state and unfolds its inherently contradictory character as both social and anarchic; instead, capitalism is to be condemned in terms of its violent past and present, its entanglements with colonialism, racism and oppression, as in ‘racial capitalism’. Accordingly, the object of critique subtly shifts from the system – capitalism – to the actors: capitalists. But rage at rich people with dubious pasts is no substitute for an analysis of the dynamics of the system and the opportunities that its laws of motion open and foreclose." newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Since I have posted so much on Marx vs. Weber, modernity, and development over the last few weeks, I have posted an updated slide deck of my lectures on Karl Marx and the Marxian Tradition (together with @ferarteaga) here: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/ET_3_… This is a long deck: 437 slides in the last compilation! (It also takes a few seconds to upload.) If I were to teach it carefully, with plenty of class discussion, I would require a whole semester. Even then, some topics (e.g., the Frankfurt School) receive only a cursory treatment because I focus more on economics and political economy, broadly construed. I hope to extend the discussion of those someday. However, I cover topics rarely seen in these courses, such as Hans-Georg Backhaus and the Neue Marx-Lektüre, because most of the work is not translated into English and must be read in the original German. I don’t have an equivalent slide deck on Max Weber, as I haven’t lectured on him. Hopefully, one day I will. Comments and feedback are very welcome.

🚨🚨Operation Barbarossa, Part 9 is up! @Annibal97783312 takes us to early December 1941: the Nazi war machine reaches Moscow's outskirts, overstretched, under-resourced, collapsing morale, failing in its objectives. All the contradictions in the Nazi war machine coming due.

On “The Triumph of Broken Promises,” one of the most important books about the origins of our times

Laurent Cesari @CesariLaurent1

2 months ago

Thomas Meaney, Western Promises, NLR 158, March–April 2026 newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/a…

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Dan McLean, a legendary broadcaster who spent more than 30 years as the face of CHCH News, has died. He was 78. chch.com/chch-news/long…

A hero of the enlightenment and civilised humanity. We will name streets after her and build statues in her honour.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD

2 months ago

> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at

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I had been thinking for a while: how does mass production of fertilisers and industrial chemicals look in a net zero world. You can electrolyse your way out of nitrogen fertiliser shortage, though it's costly. But sulphur? And decarbonisation will require more sulphuric acid!

Helen Thompson POLIS @HelenHet20

3 months ago

One can say another fossil fuel energy crisis shows the instability writ into fossil fuels and it does. But it also shows they are the life force of the material world and that you cannot jump off that juggernaut at will or think only of a future where they matter somewhat less.

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Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing. I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean. orange-anselma-35.tiiny.site Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵

Roy Ayers getting down with Herbie Hancock on “Chameleon”, live in ‘77. Featuring Harvey Mason, John Klemmer, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Phil Upchurch.