Trump’s Impossibly Flawed World View
Sorry, Don, but you've got this ass-backwards.China didn't steal anything from America (other than a tonne of your military secrets). It didn't steal America's industry. It didn't steal America's jobs.…
The Mound of Sound
For Iraqis This Could Make ISIS the Least of Their Problems
It's the Mosul dam, recaptured by Iraqi Army and Kurdish militia forces from ISIS some 16-months ago. However getting rid of ISIS didn't solve Iraq's problems. The dam is falling…
Migrant Wars, Europe
Many years ago The Economist ran a cover story with a 'barbarians at the gate' theme that speculated whether Europe should wall itself off from the peoples to the east…
You Say Tomato and I Say Does It Really Matter?
Life on Earth has existed for about 570-million years. This is broken down into three main eras, each of which is subdivided into geological epochs.The current era, the Cenozoic, has…
Pot, Meet Kettle
If you're going to kill your own people, at least have the decency to use a drone.As I opened The Guardian website this morning, there it was, a somewhat sensational…
Canada’s Back? Define "Back."
I have to admit that, like many Canadian progressives (real progressives, not the watered-down to meaninglessness type popular with so many Liberals) I thought I had misjudged Justin Trudeau during…
A Rose By Any Other Name…
They're America's homegrown insurgents-in-waiting. They're guys like renegade rancher, Cliven Bundy, whose supporters staged a heavily-armed standoff in defiance of federal officials and law enforcement. In that squabble, Bundy had…
About Those Weapons We’re Selling to Saudi Arabia
The Trudeau government has no intention of axing the deal negotiated by the Harper regime to flog $15-billion worth of armoured fighting vehicles to Saudi Arabia. The government won't explain…
A World Bound to Faith, Not Fact.
We all do it. It's just human nature. We come to see what we experience in our life as normal. We regard the modes in which we're organized as almost…
Britain’s Double Whammy Barreling Toward the UK
How do you cap off weeks of devastating flooding? How about a blast of Arctic air that'll bring you your coldest winter in 58-years? That's exactly what's heading for Britain…
Is that Geraldo? No, It’s Some Guy Named Mark.
As I was glancing through various news headlines, I was caught by one reading, "The electoral treachery of Justin Trudeau." Turns out it was from the Toronto Sun. No surprise…
Charlie Hebdo – the Fight for Free Speech
To: The Rebel. This One's For You.
The Age of Reason, Now Closed for Business.
Overall it had a good run going back to the Age of Enlightenment and carrying on through the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution and the geopolitical revolution of the 20th…
It’s All About Power, Cheap Power, And Without It…
There's only one reason that coal has played such a huge role in today's world - it's a cheap way to get the heat needed for thermal-electricity generation. Coal is…
Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged
That seems to be the theme of closing arguments defence counsel Peter Brauti is delivering in the trial of Toronto cop James Forcillo charged with the 2nd degree murder of…
I Heard They Were Breaking Up Anyway
Maybe they'll become the Shifty Steve Trio.As if getting his ass handed to him in the October runoff wasn't bad enough, ousted prime minister Harper has lost his trusty drummer,…
To See Ourselves as Others See Us – Middle Eastern Edition.
First came WWI and we told them that if they sided with us instead of their ruling Ottomans then, once we had defeated the Germans and their Ottoman allies, we…
A Perfect Explanation for Climate Change Denialism
The dumb are too dumb to know just how dumb they really are. That's seriously dumb, sometimes dangerously dumb. It's "here, hold my beer - now watch this" dumb.There's a…
A New NATO Charter
It's a problem that afflicts any club. One it starts growing it inevitably lets in some members who are true dickheads. First everything starts going all to hell then rules…
How Shiite Islam Sees Saudi Arabia and Why We Need to Take Notice
Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is furious at Saudi Arabia's execution of that country's top Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr. Khamenei wasted no time posting this image to his web page.Amnesty International…