Young Europeans Find Democracy Unconvincing
When Europeans lose their taste for democracy, bad things have been known to happen. Whether it’s Hungary or Poland, both of which have authoritarian, illiberal governments, or the rise of…
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Ignorance Compounding Ignorance. Welcome to Trump’s America.
Donald Trump has denounced the 2015 Paris climate accord as a “one-sided” deal. The clip shows how easily el presidente feeds this ignorance to his insatiable supporters, the Gullibillies. Yet…
What Lurks Beneath?
Let’s be fair. Climate change isn’t all bad. Then again, it’s a safe bet that Abraham Lincoln’s last visit to the Ford Theatre was pretty decent right up to the…
Is the Queen Dying? Could It Be Philip? Maybe the Corgis?
The Queen’s royal staff have been summoned to an emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace. Staffers are said to be descending on London from royal residences across the U.K. The news,…
Christy Clark, Rotten to the Core
There’s a reason Christy Clark governs from the cloak room. The less British Columbians can see her, close up, the better off she is. With the scantest of “drive by”…
Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal Government In The New York Times Again. You Guessed It, Another Scandal.
And, once again, it’s not flattering to the sketchy premier or her corrupt government. The last time Crusty was featured in The Grey Lady, the venerable paper labeled her government,…
Christy Clark Could Be the Most Corrupt Premier in Modern Canadian History.
Well my favourite Loud Liberal has come up with an off-the-wall endorsement of Liberal-in-name-only, B.C. Premier Christy Clark and her sullied government. The local NDP, he tells us, are nasty…
Air Rage – the 800 Pound Gorilla in the Shiny Aluminium Tube
We’ve long known that congestion kills. Put too many rats in too small a space and they’ll start attacking each other. To airlines, we, you and me, have become their…
The Day Before the Renaissance
As the Pythons would chime, “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.“ Foreign Policy editor, David Rothkopf, revisits a lesson he learned from his father that should be welcome…
Ever Heard of "Late Capitalism"?
Late capitalism. It’s a term with roots in the disciples of Karl Marx but, like “neoliberalism,” it’s come to mean many things to many people. The Atlantic explores the depth…
One Step Forward; Two, Maybe Three Back.
This Harjit Sajjin business brought to mind something that appeared in Harper’s about recent Afghan peace talks. On hand were representatives of the Afghan government, the Talibs, Pakistan, China and…
You Don’t Have to Be An Optimist To Keep Fighting
A fellow blogger today allowed that he had abandoned hope that mankind will pull out of its climate change nose dive.I have come to the conclusion that there is no…
What Harjit Sajjan Really Did
Canada’s defence minister, Harjit Sajjan, has landed in hot water for claiming he was the architect of Canada’s major combat mission during the Afghan War, Operation Medusa. The Tories rather…
Henry Giroux – The Case For "Thinking Dangerously"
McMaster professor and public intellectual Henry Giroux on the need for “thinking dangerously” to counter the spread of authoritarianism and preserve hope for a democratic restoration. What happens to democracy…
What If a Man Really Is Known By the Company He Keeps?
It’s quite a Rogues Gallery – Viktor Orban (Hungary), Vlad Putin (Russia), Recep Erdogan (Turkey), Kim Jong-un (North Korea), Marine le Pen (France), Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines) , Geert Wilder (Netherlands).…
So That’s What Trump Sees In Theresa May
Birds of a feather. They’re both a little (a lot) quirky and neither seems to have much grasp of reality. In Donald Trump’s case that goes for just about everything.…
Degrading the Oceans, One Species at a Time.
Climate change as a distraction. Interesting idea but, sadly, true. We give a good bit of attention to climate change or the major impacts – droughts, heavy floods, severe storm…
A Nightmare Almost Too Horrible to Imagine
Could Donald Trump stage a constitutional coup and derail what remains of America’s democracy? That’s an idea that’s been floated from time to time by many in informal discussions –…
Think North Korea is Scary? Not As Scary As This.
You don’t ever want to hear somebody with serious psychological issues and his finger on the nuclear trigger say this about his new job: “I thought it would be easier.“…
WHAT? Not Again!
I wanted to write “who can forget the El Nino of 2015-2016?” until I thought of today’s dreaded Memory Hole. Let’s start again. Do you remember the devastating El Nino…