Well That Explains Everything. Obama Is Advising Trump on Cabinet Picks. Yeah, Right.
Donald Trump says Barack Obama is helping the president-elect with his cabinet picks. According to Trump, Obama actually agreed with one of them.
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Maybe You Need Scottish Blood to Find This Funny
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Oh Yeah, About that "Post-National" Business
Justin Trudeau has proclaimed Canada the “first post-national state.” In fact, we’re not the first country to be smeared with that label. In fact we may be the last. Justin’s…
When Fake News Steers the Ship of State
Fake news isn’t just the staple food of Gullibillies. That much became brutally clear when, in Washington, the House Science Committee cited a wholly fallacious report from that repository of…
Trump’s "Crackpot"
The idea of Donald Trump as president has a lot of people very nervous. Why not? Trump, after all, is a bloated bag of personality quirks and psychological issues that…
Pope Francis Calls Out the Media
The head of the Roman Catholic Church warns that the mass media has become scatalogical. Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians risk becoming like…
When the Skies Open
Living in the rainiest part of Canada, the legendary “wet coast,” one tends to understand rain as others sometimes might not. Out here we are steeped in the high winds…
Sorry If I’m Cynical, But Now They’re Looking?
I guess they’ve been winging it so far. Kirsty Duncan has finally located her lost mandate letter, the one that instructs her to find a Chief Science Advisor for the…
The Anthropocene, Think of It This Way
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon describes the Anthropocene, Earth’s new geological epoch this way: “We’re at the controls of planet Earth, but we’re not in control.“ True enough. We, mankind, are in…
She’s an Expert On Corruption in Foreign Lands. Now She Sees It Taking Hold In Her American Homeland
Sarah Chayes knows a thing or two about government corruption. The former award-winning NPR journalist, special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, development worker in Afghanistan…
It’s Monbiot Again. This Time He’s On About Salvaging Democracy or Something Like That.
No matter how much Justin thinks it’s great, neoliberal globalism is a failed experiment. It causes a lot more harm than good. Even the WTO and the IMF now acknowledge…
Elizabeth May Wins, I Guess.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if the amended Green Party position on Israel and the Palestinians meets with Elizabeth May’s scorn or approval. The resolution, passed…
Liberal Democracy’s Unstoppable Decline
Throughout the western world, the public embrace of liberal democracy is growing weaker, more distanced. Like many of these fractured paradigms today, there’s a distinct generational aspect at play. Put…
Maybe Chris Hedges Has a Better Name for It.
Our prime minister has proclaimed Canada the “first post-national state.” Economist James Galbraith prefers the term “predator state.” To Chris Hedges, it’s the “mafia state.” Systems of governance that are…
Victory at Standing Rock?
The US Army Corps of Engineers has thrown in the towel. After months of determined protests, the Dakota Access Pipeline has been stopped in its tracks. The U.S. Army Corps…
A Nation Without Vision
Little attention was paid when Justin Trudeau proclaimed Canada the world’s “first post-national state.” The New York Times reporter interviewing our prime minister found the remark “radical.” It was, it…
Here’s One You Might Not Have Heard Of – the "Technosphere"
Think of it as everything man has built on Earth that’s still standing. That includes the pyramids and everything older provided it’s still around. Now I’m going to throw out…
Yeah, They Really Were "Gullibillies"
Krugman on Trump, “Millions of Americans have just been sucker punched. They just don’t know it yet.”“The white working class is about to be betrayed,” Krugman declares in no uncertain…
The Generals – Again – Sound the Warning Siren on Climate Change.
Climate change is on the mind of every professional military across the world. They know it impacts the threats they face and multiplies the challenge they must meet to defend…
Getting It Right – Sadly
He didn’t say a word about changing into Harper. Three years ago Damien Gillis of The Common Sense Canadian speculated that Justin Trudeau might be worse than Harper for Canada’s…