No, Justin. By The Time You Catch Up With Reality It’ll Be Game Over.
I don’t have much confidence we’re going to get this right, not in time certainly. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept what’s on offer – giving up without…
The Mound of Sound
A Culture of War
As the Electoral College convenes today to annoint Donald J. Trump the next president of the United States, Henry Giroux serves up another timely warning – this time about the…
Hedges on Fake News – Why Don’t We Just Stop Swallowing?
For years I’ve been calling for a democratic restoration in Canada. We’re still a democracy but we dare not take that for granted, not when liberal democracy is on the…
Krugman – It’s All Bread and Circuses From Here On In
This may sound controversial but, really, it shouldn’t. The NYT’s Paul Krugman looks ahead to the ascendancy of Trump & Company and is drawn to images of the Fall of…
Okay, Is This Plain Enough for You?
The irony is how many people use our new harsh winters as proof that the whole global warming thing is a hoax. Even the most ignorant among them know enough…
The House + The Senate + The Presidency = Disaster
Yeah, sure, the Republicans have a nutjob and a suitably batshit crazy cabinet en route to inauguration, confirmation and so on. And, yes, the Republicans will control the House of…
Why Life Is Not a Journey
This is outside of my normal milieu but it’s something that I think needs to be said.
How Wolves Change Rivers
A fascinating video by George Monbiot detailing how the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park restored a badly degraded ecosystem, even changing the rivers. What Monbiot left out was…
Is Obama Going to Hand Trump a Poison Pill?
It seems a majority of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton, having won the popular vote by some three million ballots, should be the president of the United States, not Donald…
A Primer for a Prime Minister
It’s almost impossible to discern how much our prime minister really understands about globalism and the neoliberal order. He claims he gets it but that’s far from clear. The prime…
The Ghosts of Nuremberg
The world that emerged from WWII had pretty concrete views on war crimes. We abolished sovereign immunity. We put a lot of nasty people on trial for crimes against humanity…
Norway’s StatOil Bails on Tar Sands, Takes Half-Billion Dollar Loss
The Norse know a couple of things about oil – how to make money from oil and how to hold onto it. It’s how their government amassed the world’s largest…
This Just-In. Trudeau Abandons Globalisation.
The guy who, on his 6th month anniversary in power, proudly proclaimed himself a global free trader, first and foremost, says he’s had a change of heart. From The GuardianOrdinary…
Oh, Oh Dear. A Libertarian to Regulate Public Safety. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
A pretty nerve-wracking report from Scientific American concerning a guy Trump is eyeing to run the Food & Drug Administration. Brace yourself, especially if you’re an American. President-elect Donald Trump…
Food for Thought: Thoreau’s "Walden" For the Anthropocene.
Duke law professor, Jedediah Purdy, calls it “This Profaned World.” He refers to Earth in the Anthropocene epoch in an essay at the Australian Broadcast Corporation web site. Purdy quests…
Do Vlad and Rex Have the Arctic In Their Crosshairs?
They’re not blood brothers but they’re close. Russian strongman, Vlad Putin, and Trump’s choice for Secretary of State, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, have been buddies for a while. If Tillerson…
"It’s Not Whispering Any More"
Did you hear the one about the Arctic? It’s melting. Just out, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Arctic Report Card, 2016. Here’s an apt summary from one scientist:…
A Deal Is a Deal
Except if the deal is with Saudi Arabia And it’s a deal for weaponry And it’s the United States selling. It seems Washington has had its fill of the Saudis…
Ship of State, Ship of Fools
It’s kind of creepy watching our next door neighbour’s descent into the depths of fundamentalism. Yet that’s the image emerging from Trump’s cabinet choices. His Veep is a Christian fundamentalist.…