The Israeli paper, Haaretz, isn’t pulling any punches in denouncing the despicable way the Netanyahu government cozies up to radical Christian evangelists of the ilk of Glenn Beck: In recent years the extreme Israeli right has developed an alliance wi…
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The Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – American Hegemony in Peril in East Asia, China and India Showdown
“The PLA seeks the capability to deter Taiwan independence and influence Taiwan to settle the dispute on Beijing’s terms. In pursuit of this objective, Beijing is developing capabilities intended to deter, delay, or deny possible U.S. support for the…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Giap at 100
Just a few days ago, Australian PM. Julia Gillard declared the Vietnam War now a “page in history” and noted that the chief actors, US presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Aussie prime minister Menzies and brilliant Vietnamese general Giap were all long dead….
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Wars, 60-years Running and Only Just Getting Started
We call it the “southern oscillation,” the Pacific Ocean current variation that gives us El Nino and his ugly stepsister, La Nina. People living on the Pacific Rim tend to be slightly more aware of it but the impacts are global – and they’r…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: FOX News Admits Global Warming Science is Legit
This FOX News panel has stumbled upon a breathtaking discovery – apparently this anthropogenic global warming theory is true. Yep, the facts do seem to back it up. Why they’ve even got the FOX “brain room” looking into it right now.So…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Put It On the Kids’ Tab – A Cautionary Tale
We got used to it after WWII, governments borrowing money to be repaid by taxpayers in the future. In an era of foreseeable, sustained growth that wasn’t so bad. The next generation of taxpayers would be much better off and quite capa…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Big Coal Faces Killer Argument in Court
It might just be the moment fossil fuelers dread most – their production tied to direct environmental consequences. The Queensland, Australia coal-mining giant, Xstrata is going to court today over a plan to mine 30-million tonnes of coal per yea…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Guardian’s Ominous Warning of Global Capitalism Collapse
It isn’t often you find apocalyptic tomes in business publications warning of the imminent demise of global capitalism but that seems to be changing. Ten days ago the Wall Street Journal, in an interview with noted economist Nouriel Roubini…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Where’s Waldo? Tripoli Style
Muammar Gaddafi has gone to ground and nobody seems to know where. He might be hunkered down inside his personal compound where a fierce firefight continues as rebels close in. He might have already fled the country. Al Jazeera …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The New York Times Slams Athabasaca Bitumen
The New York Times has thrown its full editorial weight against the Keystone XL pipeline proposal and the Athabasca Tar Sands that underlies it.We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Lockheed’s Lame Ducks
Lockheed Martin represents the bleeding edge of American military airpower. Lockheed produced the F-22 Raptor stealth super fighter and is struggling to churn out the F-35 Lightning II stealth bomb wagon.Lately, Lockheed’s lions have turned…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Yikes! Bachmann Wins Iowa Straw Poll
The extremely mediocre but profoundly radical Michelle Bachmann defeated her Republican presidential nomination rivals to win yesterday’s Iowa straw poll.The unwittingly amusing Bachmann proclaimed her win sent a “big message to Washington.”  …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Surfing the Wave of Change
The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We’re coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th. The old economics, the old industrialism, the old geo-politics are hea…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: For All Our Sakes, Get It Right This Time Jimbo
Federal FinMin Tiny Jim Flaherty seems to be breaking ranks with his American and European cousins and says that the federal government would consider another round of stimulus spending if Canada slips back into recession. Give credit where…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Capitalism Self-Destructing? Was Karl Marx Right?
Even the Wall Street Journal is starting to toss around the idea that Marx might have been right – capitalism will destroy itself. Economist Nouriel Roubini warns the self-destructive transfer of income from labour to capital could lead to an eco…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Ugly Smirking Face of Conservatism
British Conservative prime minister David Cameron made himself judge, jury and Lord High Executioner this week when he pronounced that anyone charged with rioting should be remanded in custody and anyone convicted should expect to go to jail. &nbs…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Get Out of Afghanistan. We’ve Seen This Movie Before
It’s like a geo-political take on one of those slasher movies in a haunted house. Danger lurks behind every door.The haunted house is Pakistan. Danger lurks everywhere – along its border with Afghanistan, in the disputed Kashmir region, alo…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Century of Revolution, What the Right Can’t See
To Conservative Brit prime minister, David Cameron, the masses of youth who took to Britain’s streets this week for four consecutive nights of rioting are nothing more than common criminals. Then again, the Right is conditioned to see these…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Can’t Find a God? Don’t Worry, You’re Just Fine
Non-believers are really nice people. In fact, studies are finding that secularists are often better educated, more tolerant and more knowledgeable about God than supposed true believers. This, according to Spiegel Online.”Churches in…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How to Fix Everything – At Least In My Opinion
How did it all get so scary that it became painful even to write about it? How did it all go so wrong?We’re confronted by a bucketful of challenges today, some existential, the rest mere crises. But it seems we’re surrounded by …
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