Author: The Mound of Sound

This is a year 2100 warming map. If all the nations in the world were as emissions profligate as the brown nations – Russia, China,

He may be in Argentina but this will have Trump seething. Federal agents have reportedly raided the Chicago City Hall office of a lawyer who

I’ve experienced tear gas only once, in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare training. It’s an experience I’d never want to repeat although what I got

Donald Trump can’t stop bleating how much he loves America’s military. Odd how he doesn’t want to do anything about one of the greatest threats

It’s the combined effort of 130 national academies of science and three years in the making. The report from the Interacademy Partnership warns that humans are

The Miami Herald has an article on how Donald Trump’s current labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, intervened to quash a child prostitution investigation into Trump pal (and

The Arctic has become increasingly less white as the Arctic sea ice melts, the tundra warms and the Greenland ice sheet retreats ever faster. In

Paul Krugman had it right when he denounced climate change denialists as “depraved.” And the depraved, also known as right-wing populists, will be out in

It’s the Achilles’ Heel of counter-insurgency warfare, i.e. the quagmire that is modern-era Afghanistan.  To win, all the insurgents need do is remain a viable

There’s not much Rachel Notley won’t do, it seems, to try to fend off her near inevitable loss in next year’s Alberta elections. The misery

It seems as though former Trump campaign manager and shady international operator, Paul Manafort, has chosen to bet on getting a presidential pardon after all.

He called both England and Canada home and he was an outspoken progressive voice on both sides of the Atlantic. Harry Leslie Smith has died,

Over at Washington Post they’re taking the piss out of Melania Trump for her decision to line the White House corridors this year with blood

NYT columnist and Nobel laureate economist, Paul Krugman, isn’t pulling any punches. Climate change denialism among congressional Republicans and Trump’s White House is depraved. Wait,

Trump’s then campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has disclosed that he personally met with Julian Assange in Equador’s embassy in London.  In fact, Manafort’s meetings were

After four consecutive years of modest declines, carbon emissions are again on the increase. The UN warned that global emissions needed to peak by 2020

While thinking about General Motors’ announcement that it will be closing the company’s Oshawa assembly plant next December, I couldn’t help but wonder just how

When Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney coaxed us to board the neoliberal train, very few of us realized it would carry us to authoritarianism, inequality and

The White House picked their moment, Friday afternoon of the Thanksgiving Day weekend, to release their own government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The Trump White