Let’s Talk Nukes
Donald Trump wonders why have nukes if you can’t use them. Vlad is furiously deploying new warheads and delivery systems including new nuclear subs and ultra-long range cruise missiles. Team…
The Mound of Sound
Will the Fossil Fuelers Be Next?
Big Tobacco is coming clean in newspapers and on TV screens across the US. It’s not voluntary. A court is holding a gun to their heads. The parallels between Big…
What’s the "Word of the Year" for 2017.
I suppose it makes sense. According to Dictionary.com, the most commonly looked-up word this year is “complicit.“ Look-ups of the word increased nearly 300 percent over last year as “complicit”…
Is Tesla a Death Sentence for Conventional Power Utilities?
Elon Musk wagered he could build s 129 megawatt battery in Queensland within 100 days or it was free. Tesla built and installed the battery with plenty of time to…
Re-Thinking Disaster Bailouts
One of the now outdated vestiges of our former geological epoch, the Holocene, is disaster relief where governments federal and state or federal and provincial disburse large sums of cash…
Sympathy for the Devil?
To some, Julian Assange is a martyr in the cause of free speech. To others, those who have watched his antics over the past two years, he’s the grand corrupter…
Why Are We Backing the Beast?
Canada’s Middle East policy, whether Conservative or Liberal, is shameful. We back Israel on everything (just look at our voting record in the UN General Assembly if you don’t believe…
It’s All Our "New Normal"
Every day without fail Google Alerts delivers to my inbox summaries of the latest news reports on selected subjects including climate change, sea level rise, droughts and floods, NASA, NOAA…
Yes, Dorothy, He Really Can Nuke the World
Donald Trump is unique in so many ways, none of them good. Mental health professionals have proclaimed him a nutjob, a malignant narcissist with sociopathic instincts. There’s not been a…
The Shamrock in Theresa May’s Knickers
Theresa May is crazy. If she wasn’t, why would she be fighting so hard to barely cling to power? The PM’s nemesis is, of course, Brexit. She’s determined to drag…
"Getting On the Land"
What a phrase loaded with imagery, “Getting on the land.” It’s when a new, freshly-minted young farmer gets on the land to put in his first crop. If he does…
Wanna Wet Your Kennedy Assassination Appetite?
Foreign Policy has posted a very interesting interview with Jefferson Morley, veteran journalist and author of “The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.”Morley discusses how the…
Imagine If We Decided Not to Lose. Imagine If We Decided to Fight Back.
We’re at war. It’s a war you sense more than feel. You read about it almost every day and most reports are very discouraging. We seem to be losing. It’s…
Making American Nukes More "User Friendly"
It gave some people pause when president-elect Donald Trump asked his advisors what was the use of having nuclear weapons “if I can’t use them?” Well, what Donald wants, Donald…
A Touch of the Lash Can Work Wonders
It has always just a matter of time before the American public accept the reality of anthropogenic, or man-made climate change. It was bound to happen as damaging and disruptive…
Chris Hedges Looks at The True North.
The first two words give it away, “Pity Canada.”Chris Hedges looks at Canada and sees us succumbing to the U.S. contagion only behind the mask of moderation. On reading this…
Adiablo, Charlie.
Manson, dead at 83. Charles Manson, the fiery-eyed cult master whose lemming-like followers staged a bloody two-night murder rampage in Los Angeles in 1969 that gripped the city with fear…
New Zealand Prepares to Receive Climate Change Refugees
Good news from a bad news story. New Zealand is proposing to issue climate refugee visas for Pacific islanders displaced from their homelands by sea level rise. In the low-lying…
And They’re Calling It "Medicane"
Climate change has brought a new severe weather event to the Mediterranean. It’s being called the “medicane.” Put simply it’s a hurricane, akin to what is routinely experienced in the…
Even the National Post is Sounding the Alarm.
By now we all know how quickly and severely the Arctic is warming. Nobody’s arguing that any more. What we don’t know, as yet, is how that’s going to impact…