Sharing is a huge problem when it comes to disinformation. That saying “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on,” is particularly true when it comes to disinformation online
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An ill-defined foreign policy, an impetuous and irascible character and a strong nationalist agenda mark the presidency of Donald Trump. The decisions taken by his administration in the early months of this year reflect that…
View More Thoughts on the Current State of AmericaThe first thing to note is that Canada admits many immigrants from the “shithole” countries.
View More Data on Canadian Immigrants from ‘Shithole’ Countries Might Surprise TrumpI first became a “dreamer” more than forty years ago. That is when my parents brought my sisters and me to the heart of East Oakland for what we thought was a summer vacation. Since…
View More Amerika: Amnesty for a Convicted Felon, 800,000 Young People Summarily CondemnedAt the psychological heart of every liberal is a milk soft tendency to succumb to the authoritarian personality, a feeling that, just around the corner, resistance will fold. Before such authority, adoration and bruising follow…
View More Joining the War Train: Trump’s Liberal CheerleadersRecently all 10 of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) submitted their resignations to President Trump. The main reason: Trump’s policies have adversely affected Asian Americans in particular and minorities in general.…
View More America at a Crossroads: Land of Hope or Fear?I believe it is fair to say that since 9-11, Islamophobia has been on the rise in North America. With the rise of ISIL and attacks in this country and other nations, terrorist movements have…
View More Trump and the Rise of IslamophobiaIt was a moment of delightful reflection. The indecently smug politicians of a distant island continent, wealthy, cruel in refugee policy and lazy in development, stunned by encountering a short fused U.S. President who had…
View More Friendly Advice to Trudeau from Australia
Soon to be former US President Barack Obama once famously said with respect to foreign policy “don’t do stupid shit (or” stuff” depending on your sensitivity to salty language)”. That maxim could just have easily…
View More How Not to Win The “War on Terror”It would give me great pleasure to write with confidence that the ‘Lizard of Oz’ has lost his touch — that the politics of fear, hatred and division is dead. Certainly, the once highly successful…
View More The ‘Lizard of Oz’ Lost Another One