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In a clear sign that President Obama recognizes that Hillary Clinton is too conflicted by the web of crony tar sands lobbyists around her to make the decision on whether to app…
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In a clear sign that President Obama recognizes that Hillary Clinton is too conflicted by the web of crony tar sands lobbyists around her to make the decision on whether to app…
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The fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline is heating up, with many positive and important developments occuring this past week, excluding the disgra…
Continue readingDavid Cameron, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy are swimming in the Libyan oil. Stephen Harper just obeys whatever Uncle Sam asks him to do.
Continue readingHe is quite right about torture. If you can kill them why bother torturing. The problem with democracy is that a person could be a good campaigner but governing is another matter. I don’t think foreign policy will help me to get re-elected. His bigge…
Continue readingIn what can only be regarded as a perversion of the Occupy Movement, a couple in Long Island, New York has paid a $975 patent application fee to turn the phrase “Occupy Wall Street” into a brand for a line of coffee mugs, T-shirts, bumper stickers …
Continue readingSome people are now calling for Obama and the Democratic Party to get behind (or is that take over or co-opt) the Occupy Wall Street movement; this at best a strategically unwise misdirection of energies, I would argue, and at worst, a dangerously naiv…
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With all eyes on the ongoing battle over whether or not the Obama Administration and the State Department will approve the disastrous Keystone XL pipeline, it was easy to l…
Continue readingKing Barry Obama has done something no other emperor of the American Imperium has done before. He has taken unto himself the power to kill any American he deems guilty, without benefit of a trial. No one of any substance will say a word against this s…
Continue readingEarlier this afternoon, The Onion, a satirical news organization, tweeted “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building.” The initial reaction from The Onion’s followers was trepidation, at best. The Onion is known as a satirical source of “news” that most know to take with a grain of salt. But what if they … Continue reading »
Continue readingThis video is about Obama. Watch, listen and enjoy.
Continue readingThere are so many ways that capitalism is absolutely irrational (not to mention inefficient at allocating resources) – the fact that the USA spends $1 trillion on “defence” while children die from lack of clean drinking around the world (or while growi…
Continue reading“Human rights have a dysfunctional relationship with justice. The language is certainly beautiful, but it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,” charged Dennis Edney in a scathing lecture at the Faculty of Law at UBC on September 15. Edney worked from 2004 to 2011 on Omar Khadr’s defence against charges stemming from the July […]
Continue readingWhen these leaders make speeches; pay attention to their language and the symbolism behind such language.An American president, in this case Obama, will use the language like “we are one nation under God” partially implying American exceptionalism …
Continue readingBarack Obama showed what he was made of today – not very much at all.In a flaccid speech that appeared to convince no one, Obama said that recognition of Palestinian statehood was premature and the UN instead ought to use its efforts to push Israel and…
Continue readingAfter nearly two decades of the US government forcing gay and lesbian troops to lie about who they were in order to serve in the armed forces, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT), the US military’s ban on openly gay service personnel, officially ended on Tue…
Continue readingThere’s an old saying that goes “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. I’m not sure what the appropriate riposte is when you’ve been scammed by the same dishonest brokers a hundred times over. That sadly describes the behaviour of th…
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The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing yesterday on the ongoing and growing scandal in the wake of the bankruptcy of Solyndra Corporation.
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With friends like this who needs enemies?Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says President Barack Obama has come to accept much of the Bush Doctrine out of necessity, despite what he campaigned on in 2008. Rumsfeld said that Obama needed to …
Continue readingPrime Minister Stephen Harper tries just to stifle his worst instincts. Warning: Canadian prime ministers may not be exactly as illustrated. If you’re too young to get this, just don’t worry about it. It’s pretty obscure anyway. Below: Richard…
Continue readingWhile I do not usually wade into American politics on this blog, I am going to make a rare exception tonight. The posting will be brief, as the link I will provide says things much better than I could.Almost two years ago, my wife and I attended a tal…
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