hedges: what happened to canada? (corporations have no borders)

Chris Hedges:






Read it here.


johngoldfine said...

"Stephen Harper is a diminished version of George W. Bush."

Hard to believe that anyone could be a diminished version of Bush 2, who with a little help from his friends opened new vistas of tininess. Even on the smaller stage of Canada, Harper could not possibly be smaller.

laura k said...

Bush as a stand-in for the entire BushCo regime, not Bush personally. Diminised because of smaller stage, as you say.

New Nova Scotian said...

I respect the heck out of Chris Hedges and that is probably why I find this article so depressing. I didn't move to Canada to fall into the same dung heap I had over in the States. What can I do now for my family? Move to Iceland?

laura k said...

Many of these problems are global, as Hedges points out.

Many others, I do believe are fixable here in Canada. The US doesn't have the equivalent of the NDP as Official Opposition.

For me the equation is still pretty solid. Canada is nowhere near what it could be, but it's a few light years ahead of the US.

CAulds said...

I particularly like the way the people here in Atlantic Canada casually affirm their refusal to go along with the politics of fear and prejudice that are infecting Canada too.

If you ask them why they won't embrace the politics of racism, fear, hatred, prejudice or greed, they don't embark on a political rant; they just say, casually (as though theirs not a conscious choice), "Well ... we just don't go for that kind of thing here in Canada."

It's just not their nature. And that is the foundation of Canada's strength ... it's the collective heart of the Canadian people.