Author: The Mound of Sound

The reporter who broke the story of how Cambridge Analytica swung the 2016 vote to Donald Trump, Carole Cadwalladr, is back and this time she’s warning that Facebook could swing the November vote to Trump.  This is Facebook’s world now. And we live in it. And if you’re not terrified

Apparently BoJo has had enough of Donald Trump. It seems he yearns for Biden to become America’s next president. The UK government is privately “desperate” for Donald Trump to lose the upcoming presidential election and be replaced by Joe Biden, according to a report by the Sunday Times. Prime Minister

It might be time for us to dust off that line about how we stand on guard for thee, Canada, at least until the American elections are called. Even that might be too soon to relax our guard. There are many things going on, mostly unchecked, across the United States

Attorney General Bill Barr. Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Barr’s dad, Donald. Donald Barr’s novel about 40 year old men having forcing underage girls to have sex with them. Gee, doesn’t that sound like the craziest conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard? Except that it seems that it’s all true. Donald Barr, back

Thirty million dollars buys a lot of very reliable Conservative voting on the US Supreme Court. Jacobin magazine reports that Brett Kavanaugh was funded to the tune of $30 million in support of his quest for a seat on the USSC. $16 million of that came from an anonymous donor.

The Guardian has published a rogues gallery of Trump administration alumni, some familiar, others not; most who were shown the door, some who just up and quit, during the turbulent administration of Donald J. Trump. I was going to call it Trump’s “first term” but, with any luck, it will

We’ve heard plenty about a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps even a third wave. Some suggest that the nature of how the virus spread globally and how easily humans transport it from one continent to another means there won’t be distinct waves. It will blur into one regenerating

If so, it doesn’t seem to be working. The Godfathers of big political money seem to be taking a pass on Donald Trump’s campaign this year. Finally, after months of rumours, Trump’s biggest 2016 donors, Robert and Drucilla Mercer, have confirmed they’ll not be floating the Great Orange Bloat’s campaign

He wants American kids back in school in September but Donald Trump doesn’t want to put Republican party faithful in harm’s way in August. Trump pulled the GOP nomination convention that was to be held in North Carolina because the authorities insisted on social distancing requirements. Instead he decided to

They’re the nemesis of Trump’s “little green men.” Portland’s Wall of Moms, decked out in yellow t-shirts stood between the Trump Thugs and BLM protesters thwarting violence. Finally Team Trump used tear gas on the Moms. They’ve even gassed the mayor. Now the Moms have backup – Portland Dads –

It’s freshly reprieved Roger Stone and fellow racists flashing the white power sign.

It was barely two weeks ago that insurance giant, Munich Re, announced that it was no longer willing to provide coverage to the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline, a.k.a. Trans Mountain. Now there’s been another defection. Zurich Insurance Group has decided not to renew coverage of the Trans Mountain pipeline, according

Think of it as a marriage made in dementia – a pandemic and a group of people who have persuaded each other that anything and everything bad is the sinister handiwork of the Illuminati.

Like Peas in a Pod Manafort is out. Stone is out before he ever went in. Trump is fighting claw and fang to see that Michael Flynn never has his day of reckoning. Now, despite Bill Barr’s best efforts to keep him locked up and muzzled, former Trump fixer, Michael

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has revised the range of global heating outcomes at both ends. The best outcome may be worse than we had been told but the worst outcome should be not as bad. There, don’t you feel better? The old range, introduced before anyone can

And this is one. In Portland, one of Trump’s goon squad confronts a member of the Wall of Moms. Well, small mercies, at least he didn’t shoot her.  These women, most dressed in yellow t-shirts, have been turning out to form a wall between BLM protesters and Trump provocateurs. Would

Long before the Covid-19 pandemic entered our lives, liberal democracy was reeling across the world. Countries such as Poland, Hungary, Brazil and others succumbed to authoritarianism and transformed into illiberal democracies. The Big Daddy of them all, the United States of America, inspired despots like Orban, Bolsonaro, Modi, Erdogan, Duterte

After George W. Bush we thought we had seen the last of the worst US president ever. After Donald Trump came along and was so much worse, George W. didn’t seem like such a bad guy after all. Maybe it’s the lead in the water down there but we now

My brother was furious with me when he found I had chucked them out. “They” were a cheap, ceramic Nativity set, the bottom of each piece stamped with “Made in Occupied Japan.” It was the era of general McArthur when Japan was struggling to rebuild, in constant danger of famine. 

We need rules, new rules for how humankind is to share this planet with other species. Emphasis on “share.” We need to figure out what share other species require and, from that, what share we can take and still live in harmony with our planet. We need to do this