There have been rumblings from time to time about Dutch and German intelligence services knowing something, perhaps a lot, about Russian efforts to meddle in America’s 2016 presidential election. It…
When the White House tried to hit up the Guggenheim Museum for a loan of Van Gogh’s Landscape with Snow, the museum had to turn him down but didn’t want…
There it is, the US hundred dollar bill, the Franklin, the largest bill currently in circulation. It features the visage of America’s highly revered Ben Franklin. One of America’s legendary…
Tory MP Kellie Leitch is hanging up her spurs and, presumably, her whips and chains also. CBC News reports Leitch will not seek re-election in 2019. A loud wailing and…
It’s the White Hats versus the Black Hats again, the good old days before the Berlin Wall came down. It’s the United States and its subordinates (i.e. us, Canada, plus…
The ceremonies are scheduled for March but we’re told the TPP is now a done deal even without the United States. The nagging question is just what’s in it. Canada,…
Even for the Mango Mussolini it’s an unflattering depiction. Trump as a festering gum disease that, left untreated, will turn lethal. That however is how David Frum, one time speech…
Damn you, Tsunami. Could you not have ruffled my feathers at a more convenient time? I was so comfortably asleep. The kids called shortly after 2 a.m. Big earthquake off…
What Donald Trump has always most feared is having his dark past exposed. Stuff like the rumoured money laundering – dirty Russian money funneled into swanky Manhattan real estate, Atlantic…
The truth (science) can often be far stranger than fiction (religion). Here’s a fine example. Religion likes to tell you that we were just plopped here by some divine being,…
This is the world that the leaders of the West have created: 42 people hold as much wealth as the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorer half of…
The collapse of privatization behemoth, Carillion, could become the straw that broke the neoliberal camel’s back. Carillion has shown that the transfer of risk from the public sector to the…
It was a dark time in America’s past. Forces of division threatened to tear the nation apart. It compelled Abraham Lincoln to borrow the biblical phrase, “a house divided against…
The medical examiner’s report lists the manner of death as “accidental.” “We knew before the report was shared with us that he was prescribed various pain medications for a multitude…
The American conquest of Afghanistan and Iraq ushered in the return of for-profit warfighting, now called “contractors” rather than their traditional name, mercenaries. Now other nations are jumping in to…
If this didn’t come from McClatchy Newspapers I probably would have given it a pass because it just sounds too fantastic – Trump, the National Rifle Association, and shady Russian…
Tourism Zambia has used the Mango Mussolini’s outburst to take the piss out of Donald J. Trump. How sweet it is. Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll finds that Trump’s popularity…
75 year old Marlin Lee Larsen was just out for a spell of high speed cruising on Oregon’s Columbia River. How as he to know that a gaggle of Hillary-lovin’…
Yes, it seems probable that Russian individuals did manipulate social media to deliver the several tens of thousands of critical votes that won Donald Trump the White House. But, as…
Who’s calling the shots in the White House? Well, according to Chief of Staff, John Kelly, he is. According to the Washington Post, Kelly had a meeting with Congressional Democrats…
