Have the Greens Gone AWOL?
She used to be a firebrand, holding the government’s feet to the fire, a burr under their saddle. but you don’t hear much from Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, these…
The Mound of Sound
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
If the Dems can hold onto these numbers, something seismic is going to happen to Congress.
Writing Trump’s Obituary
He’s got a thoroughly creepy tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on his back between his shoulder blades and he’s got the sexual appetites of a goat although he describes himself…
The Backstory of Globalization, The One Not For Public Consumption.
Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate, Joe Stiglitz, knows a thing or two about inequality. It formed the core of his PhD thesis and the son of a…
Are We Heading for Another 2008 (or worse) Meltdown?
The economic numbers are looking good. Confidence abounds. It sounds a lot like 2007 just before the US ran off a cliff taking the global economy with it. Writing in…
How We Cope With the Unbearable
A friend recently mentioned a book she had read about how so many intelligent, educated people actively ignore the reality of climate change. Apparently many of them are aware of…
Somebody Made the "Precariat" and They Did It With the Power of the Vote
We have come to believe that our governments no longer control capitalism. What ails us economically is beyond Ottawa’s command and, hence, not to be blamed on our federal governments.…
USA Today Journalistically Burns Trump in Effigy
Don’t sugar coat it, fellas. The editorial board of USA Today decided to do a long overdue drive by on the Mango Mussolini that should be music to a lot…
It Must be Wednesday. New Study. Arctic Permafrost. Worse Than We Imagined.
Not welcome news, especially in petro-pimp Canada, but NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, has released a new report on Arctic permafrost, the repository of vast amounts of…
A Moore Too Far
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. So, who gets credit for the razor-thin victory in yesterday’s Alabama Senate vote and who gets the blame for the…
"Classic" As in Vintage
Canada has snubbed Boeing on the purchase of F-18 Super Hornets. Yeah! Instead we’re going to buy Australian cast offs. Noo! We’re going to buy 18 Australian F-18’s, the “Classic”…
Living In a Worst Case Scenario World
Close only counts in horse shoes – at least when attention turns to potentially existential questions. The more serious the issue the more important to have the most accurate, reliable…
Nikiforuk Eviscerates Jim Horgan and Has Justin’s Guts for Garters.
He’s hands down the best journalist in Canada when it comes to fossil fuels. He’s The Tyee’s petro-scribe. And, as far as Andrew Nikiforuk is concerned, British Columbia’s new NDP…
So It Was a "Hard Decision," So What? British Columbia’s New Dems Will Finish What Christy Started.
I hate it when they grovel but that’s exactly what British Columbia’s NDP premier, Jim Horgan, did in announcing his government will complete the environmental catastrophe known as the Site…
What’s Thirteen Times Two and a Half? It’s ‘Roy Moore America’.
That would be the respective popularity of the United States Congress (13 per cent) and America’s “Bad Grampa” president (32 per cent). Trump’s approval numbers are two and a half…
Brace Yourselves. Sin Tax on Meat, Coming Soon.
It may sound like a radical idea but it’s not, not even remotely radical. An environmental tax on meat. For close to a decade, soil agronomists have been warning that…
Nuclear War – Just "A Tantrum Away."
You couldn’t ask for two more mentally stable people than Kim Jong Un and his orange alter-ego, “Dementia Donald” Trump. The world faces a “nuclear crisis” from a “bruised ego”,…
It’s Not for Want of Money
If America’s military is short of anything, it’s not money. The United States provides its military with more money than the combined defence budgets of the next eight most powerful…
We’ve Done a Good Job at Pretending. Now We Have to Figure Out If the Liberals Deserve to Be Called "Liberal"?
It’s a safe bet that Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem as Israeli capital will likely bring a motion to the floor of the United Nations General Assembly. The Harper/Trudeau machine has…
While We’re On the Subject of Jerusalem.
The Palestinians are once again on people’s minds (sort of, briefly) due to Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It sort of…