Category Archives: Human Rights FAIL

Tillerson gets the boot

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Farron Cousins gives the best possible quick-and-dirty summary of this whole latest Drumpfian rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic. Here’s Tillerson himself: He sounds a wee bit shaky. And no wonder: He found out he was fired from … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with Jagmeet’s tweet?

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Sabina Becker

On first glance, this looks about right, right? But there’s a huge howler in this tweet from our federal NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh. Take another look, and see if you can spot it. Give up yet? It’s that word, “legacy”. … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Ahed Tamimi.

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Palestine’s young freedom-fighter turned 17 in jail today. If you want to know just how much of an outrage that is, watch the video.

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French “feminists” don’t get #MeToo, apparently.

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Sabina Becker

So it wasn’t bad enough, last week, that 100 prominent French women, some of them soi-disantes feminists, got their expensive lingerie in a bunch over the whole #MeToo movement and decided to write an atrocious letter about it. Now, we … Continue reading →

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US far right tries to insert itself in Canadian politics, fails

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Image courtesy North99. If you thought that the whole “America First” attitude of Donnie & Co. would spell the end of US imperialism and interference in other countries’ affairs, you are sadly mistaken. Get a load of the effrontery of … Continue reading →

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Fire and Fury: The unsexy but still shocking revelations

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Host Gregory Wilpert and guest Doug Henwood discuss some of the more surprising (though less headline-making) aspects of Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. The big take-away here? The sheer extent to which Ol’ Donnie’s … Continue reading →

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Donnie can dish it out, but can he take it?

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Of course not. Wanna know just how thin that crepey orange skin of his is? Get a load of this: Isn’t that special? The little snowflake is crying like a cuck because someone painted a less than flattering (and quite … Continue reading →

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How Donnie fucked Puerto Rico over

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Just imagine having to spend MONTHS (not days, not even weeks, but MONTHS) after a catastrophic hurricane (Maria, remember her?) without a working power infrastructure. And having to suffer the added indignity of watching Donnie and his cronies (Ryan Fucking … Continue reading →

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While a Palestinian girl sits in jail, Newsweek paints her captors as victims

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Jimmy Dore points out the hypocrisy of the major media, who paint Ahed Tamimi as “no angel” (sound familiar?) while her country’s occupiers kill one cousin of hers after another, and shoot her brother in the head. And they make … Continue reading →

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Oh, fucking hell.

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Whoever in Israel signed off on this idiotic notion, you’re gonna regret that. Maybe. If the whole region doesn’t blow up before this planned station is inaugurated, that is. Good luck with that whole peace process you’ve just thrown down … Continue reading →