For many true dippers, through and through New Democrats, the last Canadian Federal Election was an excruciating ordeal. What looked like a historic run towards […]
Author: Niall Clapham Ricardo
Berta Cáceres’ Blood Stains Canada’s Corporate Approach to Climate Change
This week will go down in history as the week in which our Canadian government discovered the solution to climate change: an increase in CO2 […]
Creating Donald Trump
“Every rise of fascism bears witness to a failed revolution.” -Walter Benjamin The other day marked yet another milestone within the American political travelling circus. […]
The Universal Guaranteed Minimum Income Mirage
Guaranteed Minimum Income is always a sweet spot for “progressives” and left-wingers throughout the world. Its mere enunciation rings like poetic justice to the ears […]
Socialism in America: What Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Success Means for Canada and the World
As the news set in over Iowa yesterday, flashbacks of Monday night’s Democratic and Republican primaries were playing on loop on every TV screen in the state. The […]
Besieging the Heavens: Podemos and the Politics of the Impossible
* Please note: This post was written prior to the elections in Spain. Results are now available. FTB apologizes for the publication delay. Today the […]
The hostage taking of the French Republic
As night fell in France, sighs of relief resonated through the French political class. The “Republican Front”– put together by the center-right and center-left coalitions […]
Leurs Guerres, Nos Morts: Paris, Beirut, Syria and Beyond
In this past week Beirut, Bagdad, Paris and most of Syria were the epicentres of yet another gruesome chapter of the war on terror. The […]
Shreds from Brussels
Not more than 24 hours ago was I here writing up a summary of the pivotal talks for the future of the Eurozone that are taking place […]
The specter of Greece and the capitulation of the European project
The Eurogroup emergency meeting came to an abrupt end at 12 a.m. Brussels local time, after 9 hours of excruciating debates. The vacuum of information […]