America’s Deep State – More and Less Than Meets the Eye
There’s a lot of talk about America’s “deep state.” This supposed hidden government is the stuff of many conspiracy theories. Donald Trump is obsessed with the idea, wants them exposed.…
The Mound of Sound
Ah, Jeebus.
CNN is reporting that the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and, of course, CNN have been denied access to the White House briefing room. From The Hill:…
"Trudeau Gave Us Hope."
The rest of Canada doesn’t “get” British Columbia. I understand that. We’re those odd people past the mountains, just beyond Alberta where Canada, in so many ways, ends. Eastern prime…
Stranger Things Have Happened.
Could Donald Trump be the straw that broke the Union’s back? Could he cause the “left coast” of America (perhaps Canada too) to secede? Across the Pacific Northwest there’s been…
Rasputin Speaks
To Steve Bannon, Trump, on the campaign trail proved to be the greatest public speaker since William Jennings Bryan. To anyone who sat through some of Trump’s campaign speeches, that…
The Tyranny of the Minority
America didn’t get where it is today overnight. It took the better part of 60-years. Writing in Harper’s, Rebecca Solnit traces how the “Tyranny of the Minority” came to be.…
A Wetter Wet Coast
Floods we get. Drought, we’re not so sure. A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the entire west coast of North America is in for a lot…
Climate Change Displacing Canada’s Bison
It’s a clear cut problem. Since 1986 lakes in Canada’s north have doubled in area. That additional water has encroached on natural habitats including the Mackenzie bison preserve. This is…
There Is No Escaping Donald Trump But We Have to Try
Well that’s not quite true. If you’ve got some floating fishing cabin in a sheltered remote cove somewhere up the coast you might be able to escape the constant presence…
Remember, This Didn’t Start in Washington
Modern radical right populism predates Donald Trump by a good few years. Turkey, Poland, Hungary all came first and rightwing populism has been alive and well in France, the Netherlands…
You Can’t Blame It All on Trump & Company.
Foreign Policy editor, David Rothkopf, explores America’s “shallow government” and the role ordinary Americans, Trump supporters, play in empowering it. The shallow state is in many respects the antithesis of…
It’s Not Easy Being a Liberal (or a Tory). It Shouldn’t Be.
Three facts that reflect what it’s like to support the Trudeau government.Canadians are now one of the world’s largest extractors of climate pollution, per capita We’re planning one of world’s…
Sure, Go For It. Let’s Re-Freeze the Arctic.
There’s an ambitious proposal being floated to restore the Arctic Ocean sea ice. It entails deploying 10-million pumps powered by wind turbines. The pumps would draw sea water and spray…
The Heart of Darkness, a.k.a. The Trump Administration
Foreign Policy’s Max Boot captures the extreme dysfunction inside the Trump White House. …the United States under President Donald Trump does not actually seem to have a foreign policy. Or,…
C’mon, Really. When a Thug Like Robert Mugabe Claims Kin With Your President, You Need to Ask Just What You’ve Gotten Yourself Into.
Leaving the bragging rights aside, I was astounded to learn today that I wasn’t the only one who found similarities between America’s new president and Zimbabwe’s bad boy, Robert Mugabe.…
Nailed It!!!
Like some people, I’ve been trying to divine just whom Trump most closely resembles. There’ve been plenty of people claiming he’s another Hitler or a new Mussolini. Not me. Then…
Closing In on Donald Trump
The missing link is – Deutsche Bank. Investigators want to know why the troubled Deutsche Bank got into Donald Trump’s companies for $1.3 billion when American banks wouldn’t touch anything…
Congratulations, Donald. One Month and Counting.
Dear Donnie: It hardly seems like you were sworn into office a month ago. Hard to believe. It seems like so much longer. Who can forget your predecessor, Barack “No…
Hey, Sal. This One’s For You.
For our friend, the Salamander. Here’s your namesake, the biggest of them all.
The Best Weapon to Fight Right Wing Populism – Progressive Populism From the Left
The era of Everyday Low Taxes, especially for corporations and the rich, has brought us low. Why, in a piece on rightwing populism did I open with a line about…