George Soros: Democracy Is in Crisis Around the World
Billionaire George Soros isn’t mincing his words: ‘Democracy is now in crisis. Even the U.S., the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president.’ The…
The Mound of Sound
The Bad Seed
I knew all along that no good would come from promiscuously allowing them into the E.U. and then NATO. 2016 has shown the price to be paid. Like the rise…
Fareed Zakaria’s Eulogy for Liberal Democracy In America
Fareed Zakaria takes to the pages of the Washington Post to lament the passing of liberal democracy – and liberty – in his adopted homeland, the United States. Two decades…
The "Compost Bomb" Exploding Beneath Us
Think of the vast northern permafrost as compost only waiting a thaw to decompose. Well, it’s thawing now and it’s doing what compost does – releasing carbon dioxide and methane…
Art Does Imitate Trump
China is about to usher in the Year of the Rooster. That led one thoughtful Chinese sculptor to come up with this:
Who Will Decide Canada’s Policy on Israel, Barack Obama or Donald Trump?
When US secretary of state, John Kerry, proclaimed that Israel had to choose – it could be a Jewish state or a democracy, just not both, Washington’s abrupt epiphany must…
Netanyahu, Putin and Trump – "Yesterday’s Men"
Benjamin Netanyahu says he has “proof” that Obama was behind the UN Security Council resolution that condemned Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories. If Bibi was surprised that the sky…
"It Can Either be Jewish or Democratic. It Cannot be Both."
Blunt words for Israel from U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry. In part, Kerry was speaking truth to power. In part he was merely stating the obvious. That his words…
He’s Not Crazy, Judge, He’s Just Religious.
Where is the line between religious devotion and insanity? Believe it or not, that’s before the courts now in a death penalty case. In his book Under the Banner of…
The Tyee – "How Trudeau is Screwing Over the Generation That Got Him Elected"
Well now there’s an eye-catching headline. Geoff Dembicki, sometime correspondent for Vice, Foreign Policy and The New York Times, writes that Trudeau is screwing over Canada’s young people. Let’s get…
Will Trump Be a Lightning Rod for Terrorist Attacks on America?
If there’s another Osama bin Laden out there, and there probably is, Donald Trump is manna from Heaven. The Great Orange Bloat is every terrorist’s dream. He’s impulsive and reactionary.…
30 C Above Normal
24 December, 2016 I mean, this is crazy. Seriously. Here and now. The Arctic continues to run a fever. On Thursday, the temperature there was almost 30 C warmer than…
How Bad Was 2016?
It was sooooo bad that The Tyee had to serialize their year-ender, The Year in Bummers, into four parts. Part One is here.
2017 – The Year of The Great Unraveling?
If nothing else, we’re getting much closer. With Trump just three weeks away from the presidency it’s a safe bet that 2017 will be tumultuous. Whether it will be the…
You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You…
It’s Donny’s party and he’ll pout if he wants to… Trump says he doesn’t want celebrities at his inauguration, just “the people.” Well, isn’t that a happy coincidence given the…
Prince Charles Gets It, Warns of the Return of the Ghosts of 30s Populism
Echoes of the past, the 1930s to be more specific. Around the world nations are plunging into the pit of populism and the heir to Britain’s throne won’t bite his…
Capitalism’s Obituary
In The Tyee, Crawford Killian reviews the writings of Wolfgang Streek, director emeritus of the Max Plank Institute, who sees a decidedly dystopian future in the wake of an impending…
The Best Christmas Sermon You Might Get This Year
It comes from Bishop Markus Droge of the Berlin Evangelical Church in his comments about this week’s Christmas market atrocity. From an interview in Deutsche Welle: People are rattled, frightened…
Look, Justin, It’s Called "Civil Disobedience" For a Reason
Miss Justin says we children can protest the Kinder Morgan pipeline as much as we like so long as we stay in that little area – way over there and…
Showdown At the "DT Corral"?
Should’ve seen this coming. BBC News reports that fears of a Trump presidency has some American liberals going for their guns. Gun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right…