Charlie Angus / The Resistance -- Trump Delivers Farmaggedon -- Sep 26, 2025 I used to look forward to the first shipments of Iowa sweet corn at the grocery store. It was a sign that BBQ season had arrived in the north. Not this year. When I saw the big bins of MADE IN USA... Continue Reading →
Originally posted here Sep 15, 2025 [Charlie Angus] I heard the news about Charlie Kirk's assassination as I was deeply engrossed in Timothy Snyder's book The Road to Unfreedom. At the time, I was pondering Snyder's statement that "blood is the ink of political fiction." Snyder, an expert in the history of fascism, was warning... Continue Reading →
Reposted from Charlie Angus / The Resistance Jul 11, 2025 "By almost any measure, anyone born after 1990 is finding themselves in a new geological era, navigating a world fundamentally different from the one Baby Boomers and Gen Xers inherited. The chances of anyone alive today experiencing a year as relatively cool as 1996 are... Continue Reading →
Reposted from The Resistance, Charlie Angus originally titled American Dachau -- Trump Takes the Next Step Jul 05, 2025 – Edited for length and clarity KJG Six months. That's all it took for the Trump regime to make the move from kidnapping people on the street, to threatening to strip political enemies of citizenship, to... Continue Reading →
A Message of Solidarity and ResistanceCHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE - JUN 9, 2025 [Ken Gray] Charlie Angus, Robert Reich, David Frum, Bob Woodward, Mark Milley all agree. Trump’s creation of violence and the imposition of the national guard and marine corps personnel in California is a test case for using military action against American... Continue Reading →
Re-posted from CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE - JUN 4 "[A primary feature of the gulag or concentration camp is that]…the human masses sealed off in them are treated as if they no longer existed, as if what happened to them were no longer of interest to anybody, as if they were already dead and... Continue Reading →
CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE — MAY 18, 2025 [Former MP Charlie Angus has now closed his Ottawa office following from the Canadian House of Commons for 21 years. His advocacy continues however, notably through his Substack blog: The Resistance.] [Charlie Angus] "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a... Continue Reading →
Charlie Angus / The Resistance May 04, 2025 "It is with humility and appreciation that I accept Damien Kurek's offer to resign his seat…" — Pierre Poilievre, three days after losing the 2025 federal election I know what you were thinking: the election is over, Canada will negotiate a new deal with Trump, and life... Continue Reading →
Reposted from CHARLIE ANGUS / THE RESISTANCE -- APR 30, 2025 [Charlie Angus] Trump is the first American president to lose a Canadian election. I've been through many elections, and nobody outside Canada ever seemed to notice. This one was different. When Prime Minister Carney called a snap election amidst the rising threats posed by... Continue Reading →
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