Charlie Angus
@charlieangus104.bsky.social
Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt. Not a space for the cynical and snide.
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Nova Scotia's iconic Blue Nose is refusing to travel to Trumpland. This is a huge decision given the role they play in the international schooner festivals. But they will not cross the border. The Blue Nose is your dime. If they can hold the line against fascism. So can you. Keep the boycott strong.
In setting up Meidas Canada we chose a microphone that carried historic weight. We picked the altec 639 b. If it was good enough for Edward R. Murrow and Buddy Holly, it was good enough for resistance to gangster fascism. This is an original mic and has never been used. @meidastouch.bsky.social
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With the horrific settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank Canada needs to do better. Instead of listening to the Israeli lobby they need to be speaking with the human rights organizations documenting the violent push to steal Palestinian land. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
While Trump was building a cage on the White House lawn for men to beat each other, Canada's PM was in Dublin trying to build a new democratic order from the chaos. @laura-babcock.bsky.social and I discuss life during the collapse of the American empire. youtu.be/zVuZJ870TzI?...
When I spoke with the @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social I was asked if I could name one positive thing about Donald Trump. There is nothing good to say about a corrupt criminal who should be in penitentiary instead of the White House. A few reasons why: www.youtube.com/shorts/q_6rM...
The screwworm epidemic will cost American cattle farmers $2 billion in losses. It is just the first in a long line of needless disasters that are coming since Elon Musk was allowed to trash key health, monitoring and science programs. My latest: charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-time-o...
This is a piece I wrote when I was working with @louiepalu.bsky.social documenting the hardrock mining culture of the north. In mining culture, shaft sinkers had a special lore because of the dangerous work. My reflection on a shaft sinking legend. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-africa...
The United States dominated the world's finances because it controlled the "chokepoints" - in currency exchange and trade. It relied as much on trust as on coercion. The trust is gone. The world is looking elsewhere. My latest on the end of the American century. youtu.be/3-mNEYCcrtc?...