Author: The Mound of Sound

Another Saudi atrocity against Houthi civilians in Yemen, this time a busload of kids. Dozens of civilians, mostly children, have been killed and others wounded

The Trudeau government was easy pickings for Enron protege, Kinder Morgan, when the company was desperate to unload the TransMountain pipeline and expansion project. At

The British government is planning to stockpile food and medicine to prevent chaos in the event of a no-deal Brexit that disrupts essential supply chains.

It’s a long read. It’s a tough read. Losing Earth focuses on the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989 when politicians almost reached a consensus to

A brewer defrocks Ford’s beer boondoggle and asks an interesting question – what’s this really all about? Buck a beer! Hey, here’s an issue I

“Solving climate change is about power, money, and political will.” That’s how Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University College London, imagines we

The sketchy Texas outfit, Kinder Morgan, has come clean on the estimated costs of the new TransMountain pipeline. Kinder Morgan Canada says expanding the Trans Mountain

The Achilles Heel of Canada’s and other governments’ climate change plans is that they’re working with political numbers, a failure that guarantees gestural responses at

Over the past week we’ve taken a look at Cyprus, the haven for dirty rubles, the Bank of Cyprus, its former co-chair now Trump commerce

A UK-based, Arab website, alaraby.co.uk, links the group that posted this to the Saudi royal court. A verified Saudi Twitter account curating infographics for the

Trump and his congressional Republican puppets are positively giddy over the US economy. Paul Ryan says it’s the bestest since 2014. And, while the recovery

A jarring article in The New Republic claims that the Saudis are threatening to retaliate against Canadian interference in the theocracy’s internal affairs by supporting Quebec’s

When you find a point of convergence where shady characters gather to do shady things it’s usually worthwhile to take a closer look. Testimony in

They’re as predictable as the sunrise. Donald Trump and Twitter are joined at the hip. His aides have tried to get him to give it

Okay, here’s the issue: now that the United States has become Europe’s unreliable partner, should Germany acquire nuclear weapons? I’m thinking that’s a real big

The photo is the sky above the Parthenon last week from wildfires sweeping Greece. I spent an hour this morning reading a succession of crazy,

NASA researchers have found that Alaska’s North Slope tundra ecosystem is transforming into something that more closely resembles the boreal forests of the south. During

It’s bad enough that they’re old and needy. Now they’re a damned threat to the nation. Seniors are cashing in their chips and foreign investors

A troubling report from Foreign Policy concludes that the Kushner peace plan for Israel and Palestine begins by sabotaging the UN Relief and Works Agency for

Israel will soon square off against Russian forces deployed along its frontier in the occupied Golan Heights. Russia says the troops will be military police.