If It Isn’t One Damned Thing, It’s Another
In preparation for its upcoming Davos summit, the World Economic Forum has released its Global Risks Report, 2018. The report can be summed up in three words – “worse than…
The Mound of Sound
Oh Yeah, About Trump’s "Excellent" Health
How can a 71-year old who sustains himself on junk food and elaborate cakes and pastries be in excellent health? Simple answer – he isn’t. Trump’s doctor says he’s fighting…
Did the Trudeau Government Really Need the B.C. Supreme Court to Tell Them This?
Indefinite solitary confinement is wrong. It shames the nation that resorts to such an inhumane practice that is nothing short of mental torture. In a lengthy ruling released Wednesday, Justice…
Jeff Flake Unloads on Trump, America’s "Supreme Leader."
Retiring Arizona senator, Jeff Flake, went after Donald Trump today on the floor of the US Senate. The transcript is here. What follows are some excerpts: 2017 was a year…
Carving Out a Post-Globalism World
Even though our government may still embrace it, globalism is a failed concept and those who cling to it are inviting some pretty nasty consequences. The consensus about globalism is…
Why Is Canada the Country Insisting It Be Kept Intact? Just Who Is Our Government Protecting?
One of the truly perplexing aspects of the North American Free Trade Act, NAFTA, is the Ch. 11 investor dispute resolution section. Trump wants it gone. Mexico doesn’t seem to…
Yanis Takes His Scalpel and Dissects Globalism
It is not easy to get people to think about globalization, capitalism in the neoliberal era and what lies ahead, if anything. To use Bill Maher’s indelicate metaphor, it’s like…
America’s Ambassador to Panama Has Had His Fill of Presidente Shithole, Resigns.
56 year old John Feely, career diplomat and former Marine chopper pilot, serving as America’s ambassador to Panama has resigned his post. “As a junior foreign service officer, I signed…
Der Spiegel Captures Trump Perfectly
The Spiegel cover says it all:
They’re Not the "Party of Lincoln" Any More
Republicans like to praise themselves as the “party of Lincoln.” Of course that was when the Republican Party was a party of the north. Back then the slave state South…
President "Sh_thole" Afraid to Show His Face in London
The trip is off. The Brits have repelled Trump from visiting their fair land anytime soon. Among other things, protesters threatened to line the parade route and moon the bastard…
Ann Coulter – Bannon Was Trump’s Brain
Ann Coulter is unleashing her flying monkeys on her ex-fave, the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump. In case you’ve missed it, Donnie has been having a non-stop senior’s moment lately…
Could Hackers Launch a Nuclear Attack?
Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, has released a study of cyber security risks posed to US, British and other countries’ nuclear arsenals. The threat has received scant…
Well, That’s the Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Donald Trump doesn’t like illegal immigrants and he doesn’t like the countries those little brown buggers come from either. The Cheeto Benito likes his immigrants white, preferably Nordic too. President…
The Assange Follies
Ecuador really wants Julian Assange out of its London embassy. It’s been trying to work out some deal for the Brits to just let him go somewhere, perhaps to another…
A Eulogy for "The West." It Is No More and Will Be Missed.
Most of us were brought up seeing ourselves and our nation as members in good standing of this political, social, and economic entity we liked to call “the West.” We…
El Presidente Strangelove
In 2016 then candidate Donald Trump was given a briefing on the vexing issue of nuclear weapons. According to his then buddy and confidante, Joe Scarborough, three times Trump asked…
2018, the Year of America’s Congressional Khmer Rouge
This could be a transformative year for the Republicans. Their tax deal passed, many Congressional Repugs are hitting the silk, bailing out, just as Joy Reid foretold before Christmas. As…
Hedges Hears America’s Death Rattle
We’re witnessing many things unfold this century that would have been unimagineable except to a small few just decades ago. Climate change, the contamination of our atmosphere, the incremental destruction…