One of These Is Not Like the Other
These are the faces of South Sudan.These are the faces of Syrians fleeing civil war sweeping their country.One of these is simply not like the other. The difference? We don't…
The Mound of Sound
Did Arthur C. Clarke Foretell the F-35 Fiasco Sixty Years Ago?
The legendary science-fiction writer, Arthur C. Clark, wrote a short story entitled "Superiority" in 1953. Now it's making the rounds of the aviation and defence communities struggling with the procurement…
Jindal May Be Gone But Brownback Still Has Work to Do.
As Louisiana tries to crawl out of the post-apocalyptic chaos left behind by the Bobby Jindal days, Kansas is still racing to the bottom.Like Jindal, Kansas governor Sam Brownback has…
Idiocracy, Bobby Jindal Style
YeeHaw, shitkickers, tax cuts for everybody. Then, more tax cuts.That's pretty much the formula used by Bobby Jindal during his 8-years as governor of the poorest, most screwed up state…
You May Need to Sit Down for This. A 2C World Is Just Around the Corner.
You know that business about keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the "do not exceed" point at which all bets are off?You know how we were planning to do…
Thanks Brad, You Prick
Brad Wall is a caring, compassionate man. He feels so deeply about Saskatchewan's homeless that he's buying them one-way bus tickets - to Vancouver.Kerry Jang, a Vancouver city councillor and…
Shifty Heads For the Trough
You might not care for Shifty Steve Harper but that doesn't mean he doesn't have friends and admirers and the closer you get to Calgary the more you'll find of…
Climate Change is Boring – Another Day, Another Record
From the Boiling Frog file:The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, NOAA, reports that this past winter was the warmest ever recorded for the lower 48 states. This winter broke the…
Funny You Should Ask
The National Interest's James Goldrick asks, "Would you feel safe in a 40-year old submarine?"No, the question Goldrick posits has nothing to do with Canada's hapless fleet of drydock queens,…
How We Choose to Be Governed
There was a time when we understood and embraced certain core principles of how we should be governed. Neoliberalism has strived to extinguish these values and erase them from our…
Running Scared
They're probably the most powerful corporations of the lot. Their tentacles reach deep into legislatures and palaces around the world. Together they account for assets of some twenty seven trillion…
Remind Me Why Exactly It’s Not an Apartheid State?
Let's talk ethnic cleansing in the forced expulsion sense. A new poll finds that nearly half of Israeli Jews want their country to expel its 1.6 million citizens of Palestinian…
Okay, Junior, But Why Let KPMG Off the Hook?
It's a pretty disgusting state of affairs. Under the Trudeau government, rich tax cheats get amnesty. It seems the Canadian Revenue Agency is only allowed to use the wheel, the…
The Ghost of Pierre Trudeau Hovers Over the Son
In The Tyee, Murray Dobbin ponders what Pierre Trudeau would make of the Dauphin and his party's support for the Tory resolution condemning the Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaign against…
We’ve Robbed Them of Their Future, We’ve Helped Ourselves to Their Present and Their Past to Boot. Shhh, Keep That to Yourself.
If you've got kids in their 30s you know what's happening. Trust The Guardian to make a big deal of it.A combination of debt, joblessness, globalisation, demographics and rising house…
Meltdown?
Think of it as the central bank of central banks, the Bank of International Settlements, the all seeing eye.These days the eye sees trouble on the horizon for the global…
Climate Change, It’s Just So Damned Boring.
Another day, another record, until the record themselves seem to blur into near meaninglessness.Yes, last month was warmer than all the other months by that name since records were recorded.…
The Case for Returning to Traditional Liberal Foreign Policy.
There was a time when Liberals knew that, when it comes to foreign conflicts, it's a rare day that any side has clean hands. The very nature of these uprisings/insurgencies/civil…
An Idea Whose Times Has Come?
Let's not dismiss this out of hand. Yesterday, son-in-law went to cast his expatriate vote for the Democratic primaries in Vancouver. I guess the ex-pat vote is tallied and delegates…
Your Drunk Neighbour: Donald Trump – Plus – Darth Trump
From the Washington State Democratic Committee:Or how about Star Wars Trump?