The term “IDP” or internally displaced person has become quite commonplace in violence-wracked areas such as Syria or Sudan. It occurs when large numbers of people are uprooted and flee…
This is a ditch we’ll never get out of without first having a clear idea of just how we got in. Watch it and you’ll hear some very interesting thoughts…
Paul Krugman wonders what the death toll will be. Not from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma or Maria but from Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority…
360 billion dollars a year or roughly a billion a day, every day. That’s what the United States can/should expect in losses from climate change, according to a new report.…
We’ve all heard the first verse of the Star Spangled Banner, ad infinitum. They might want to change it up, maybe sing the third verse: Yeah, you heard right. The…
One of the things we’ve counted on in wrestling with cutting greenhouse gas emissions are nature’s carbon sinks. A carbon sink is a natural process that strips carbon out of…
The Republican Party has an insurgency on its hands. The election of rightwing nutjob/Christofascist Roy Moore to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions was the shot across the…
When the picture shows a thug with a pistol on his belt and the Klan logo on his shirt, he’s not an “ethnonationalist.” He’s a racist and worse. Ethno-nationalism was…
Didn’t those US trade types get the memo? Canada is an energy superpower. You can’t treat an energy superpower the way Boeing is treating Bombardier. 220 per cent duties on…
Found this on The Tyee. Many Canadians aren’t too familiar with the B.C. Hydro Site C dam controversy that has plagued the province especially during the Liberal Party of British…
Shannon Sharpe, CBS commentator and former NFL tight end, on the curious solidarity of NFL owners with the league’s black players. He’s also got a few choice insights into America’s…
Reverend Jimmy has learned his lesson after serving a stretch in the Greybar Hotel. There’ll be no more swindlin’ the Gullibillies on non-existant time shares. The new hustle is “food…
It’s pretty obvious that America’s man/baby president has been coming apart at the seams emotionally. Most think it’s rooted in a deep-seated psychological malfunction. Who knows, maybe it’s a virus.…
The title of Jared Diamond’s now classic book says it all, “Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” (If you haven’t read it you can get it free here…
Krugman knocks one out of the park. Republicans have spent years routinely lying for the sake of political advantage. And now — not just on health care, but across the…
So desperate are Congressional Republicans to demolish Obama’s Affordable Care Act that they’re now trying to bribe Republican opponents to switch their votes. With the latest version of Trumpcare floundering…
The good news: Alternative energy is making great strides…The sobering news: even as it continues to fall ever further behind the growth in fossil fuel consumption.National Observer climate change scribe,…
C’mon, Justin. Just for a while can you pull that giant rag out of your ass? Tell those boys and girls in those little booths to let Chelsea Manning visit…
Donald Trump has earned praise for how well his administration has responded to the disasters caused in Texas and the southeast by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. He’s not showing signs…
Tony Weiner’s uncontrollable deviance has landed him and his now infamous appendage a 21-month, all expenses paid visit to the Greybar Hotel. Only Tony won’t be headed to Attica or…
