Snake Oil Isn’t Selling These Days
Paul Krugman writes that, in the United States, snake oil isn’t selling like it used to. Exhibit A is Donald Trump’s tax cuts. George Bush touted the same snake oil…
April 2018
Adler-Kinsella on Liberals and drugs! Drugs and Liberals! Drugged-up Liberals!
Did my usual Thursday thing with Charles, and it was illuminating, as usual. We discussed drugs and sexual harassment and even found room to squeeze in a few laughs. Check…
A Commonwealth at bargain price.
Our prime minister Justin Trudeau has been in London this past week, pressing the flesh with the long-running Commonwealth of Nations. The Commonwealth, as we usually call it is the…
Green Party of Alberta chooses Coral Bliss Taylor, former Calgary council candidate, as interim leader
The Green Party of Alberta has chosen Coral Bliss Taylor, not so long ago a candidate for city council in Calgary civic election, to serve as its interim leader while…
Yes, Justin, But What’s in the "National Interest" of Our Children and Grandchildren?
Justin Trudeau’s highly selective, incredibly narrow, utterly myopic and grossly self-serving definition of Canada’s “national interest” is disturbing. Canada didn’t begin with us and it won’t end with us either…
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Refusal To Regulate Regional Autism Centres Has Opened The Door To Lawsuits
The Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau has actively refused to bring in regulation of the provinces regional autism centers despite major issues being reported to the government…
An Angry Planet
The future is rapidly arriving, and it isn’t pretty, thanks to climate change that is causing rising seas and more volatile storms, of particular threat to low-lying nations of the…
Stunning, Absolutely Stunning.
Play this magnificent video full screen, volume up. Then with climate change this rampant ask yourself why we’re so bent on pimping bitumen. GLACIER EXIT from Raphael Rogers on Vimeo.
Trump’s Little Prince of Darkness Joins Legal Team
Rudolph Giuliani is joining Trump’s legal team dealing with the Mueller investigation. Curiously enough, I wrote a post on Rudi and his involvement with the Clinton email scandal two days…
Red Scare or Red Worry?
Is the government of China forcing Chinese students at foreign universities to set up Communist Party cells? According to an article in Foreign Policy that is happening on campuses in…
It was ineffective, sure
But did it have to be political self-plagiarism, too? You know, if you are going to go to “11” in your attacks on a political opponent, try to be original,…
Park board takes next step in reconciliation
Commissioners take on mission to ‘decolonize the Vancouver Park Board’ Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier April 19, 2018 10:26 AM The park board’s reconciliation planner, Rena Soutar, will work with…
America’s Long History of Trying to Determine Who Rules Syria
One interesting and completely undeniable fact that we don’t talk about nearly enough is how Syria has been a target for regime change by the US-centralized power establishment since long…
We’re all getting played by Kinder Morgan
Photo by Vancouver Sun Here’s a different take on Kinder Morgan’s ultimatum and the so-called “constitutional crisis” it has sparked. I’m speculating, of course, as we all seek to understand…
The Myth of The Asian Market for Alberta’s Oil
For years, we’ve been told again and again (and again) that Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline is desperately needed for producers to export oil to Asian…
Busting Trudeau’s Bitumen Bullshit. The "National Interest" Scam.
It’s time for the Great Prevaricator to show Canadians this massive Asian market eagerly awaiting Alberta bitumen. Tyee contributor, Mitchell Anderson, says it’s pretty much non-existent. Canadians have been repeatedly…
April 19: The news that wasn’t in today’s paper.
Is the Russia Times a propaganda medium? Of course it is. The difference from the western news media is that the Russia Times doesn’t lie. It simply avoids anything that…
The Total Humiliation Of Mad Max Bernier
As you know Maxime Bernier likes to portray himself as the hero of the Mad Max movies.Or at least the extreme libertarian version of that series.Where the lonesome hero wanders…