Author: The Mound of Sound

  Donald Trump defends his decision to mislead the American people about the Covid-19 virus for two months, claiming he didn’t want to ‘panic’ the public. There is much wrapped up in that unconvincing explanation. He felt it was better to give the American people a false sense of security.

At least Canada’s conservatives are consistent. When they’re out of power they all promise to get Canada’s financial house in order if and when they again hold the reins of power. Today it’s Erin O’Toole’s turn to spread the lie.  An O’Toole government, he says, would eliminate Canada’s federal deficit

Donald Trump wants Americans to believe. He wants Americans to believe he alone is to be believed. He wants Americans to believe that the others are all liars. Journalists are liars. His former associates are liars. Scientists are liars. America’s medical experts are liars. The nations generals are, you guessed

Americans despise socialism, whatever they imagine that to be. They automatically conflate socialism with Communism and totalitarianism, the loss of their constitutionally guaranteed, democratic rights. It’s the Freedumb Factor at large. The contradictions suggest they don’t have a clue about democracy or liberty. Does it bother Hayseed America that Wyoming,

It is said that America has never been as deeply divided, across so many fault lines, since the Civil War. Social cohesion is broken, perhaps irreparably. Chris Hedges maintains that the pot of unrest that could tip into revolt is almost at the boiling point. In 2018, The Economist Intelligence

In 2012 she was briefly the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Wow, did the Republicans and America dodge a bullet there. Now Michelle Bachmann is taking to the televangelist airwaves to stop Joe Biden from turning the US into a Communist state.

To be clear, the US Department of Justice serves America, the American people, not the man in the Oval Office. Under A.G. Bill Barr the DoJ has been deeply corrupted. It now serves not the American people but the guy who nominated the bent son-of-a-bitch, Donald Trump. Trump is embroiled

I’m to blame. I haven’t been following God’s Twitter account. Here are a few tweets to catch up. In an ideal scenario, the President of the United States and the worst human being in the world would be two different people.Being gay is not a choice but being an asshole

The Guardian has published an op-ed with a difference. It was written entirely by a robot, artificial intelligence, with no human involvement. I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I

California has been making headlines for the resurgence of the Covid-19 virus. And for this year’s wildfires that eclipse the devastating wildfires of previous years. And the heat, what about those heatwaves, huh? Brutal. And rolling power outages to keep the demand for air conditioning from overwhelming the grid. It’s

The American people have been groomed to believe no end of horseshit. Here’s an example. Two years after George W. Bush went on TV to admit that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, more than 60 per cent of Fox viewers were convinced that WMDs had been found.

Trump was quick to denounce The Atlantic for publishing an article about how the Mango Mussolini views the men and women serving in America’s military and those who have died and been disabled fighting America’s wars.  The article relies on four sources, all of them anonymous. Trump used that to

Politics today in America, and to a somewhat lesser extent elsewhere, has become a black hole that sucks away any hope of progress. The device is commonly known as the ‘culture war.’ It’s a repository where medical crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, environmental emergencies such as the climate change

“Humankind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality“                                                                                         

An Angus Reid poll finds that Jim Horgan’s NDP holds a commanding lead in British Columbia. The numbers show NDP at 48 per cent. The BC Libs at 29. The Greens at 14 and the provincial Conservatives at 8. Horgan would love to call a snap election and consign the

What goes up must come down. Even geopolitics has its own irresistible gravity. Dominant nations rise and decline, their places taken by some successor.  Some times this occurs peacefully. More often the new order is birthed out of war. It’s called Thucydides Trap and history teaches us that war is a

Canadians take nature for granted. We figure that there’s so much land and it’s, relatively speaking, sparsely populated so, no problem. Problem.

The skies above LAX had unexpected congestion on Sunday. The cockpit crew of an American Airlines flight notified the airport tower  that they had encountered a very identifiable flying object. “Tower, American 1997. We just passed a guy in a jet pack,” the first American Airlines pilot states in a

We hear a lot these days about how liberal democracy is in decline. Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, even the United States are drifting into authoritarianism. What if it’s not some inevitable failure of liberal democracy? What if this outcome has been engineered from the beginning of the neoliberal era in

Boris Johnson has chosen former Aussie prime minister and rightwing nutjob, Tony Abbott, to become a UK trade envoy. Abbott, an ultra-conservative Catholic, has strange ideas that now extend to what to do with old people in the age of Covid-19. Abbott’s view is that they’re just going to die