The Wheels Are Coming Off the Wagon
It wasn’t that long ago that we snickered at people walking around with wheelbarrows of money, just enough to buy a loaf of bread. It happened in Weimar, in Zimbabwe,…
The Mound of Sound
It’s the Most Popular Course in Yale’s 300 Year History. Now It’s Yours, Absolutely Free.
With the world seemingly in free fall mode it’s not hard to get a bad case of the downers. Ivy League great, Yale, has something you might want to try…
$10 Oil Bearing Down on US Markets
The world oil supply is bursting at the seams. World oil producers are running out of places to put it. The Saudis (and others) have been so backed up with…
$0 Oil Has Come to Athabasca. Hey, How Are Those Pipelines Coming Along?
From Oilprice.com: Canadian oil companies have begun shutting down steam-driven oil sands production projects as prices continue to fall, Reuters reports, noting the move could have dire long-term consequences for…
A Timely Idea
Poland and Denmark have decided that there’ll be no government bailouts for corporations registered in offshore tax havens. The Danish finance ministry on Saturday extended its bailout program into July…
Covid-19, the Other Killer
By now everyone knows that Covid-19 attacks its victims in their anatomical boiler room – the heart and lungs. But Covid-19 has a new and very dangerous ally. These people,…
What Was It Again? Oh Yeah, This Changes Everything. Right.
If you read the funny papers you’ve probably come across several op-eds arguing that, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic or in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and…
If He Wasn’t So Stupid, He Might Be Demonic.
Donald Trump is not demonic. He’s stupid. He’s also ignorant, psychopathic, sadistic, utterly incapable of telling the truth, and in all things unhinged but he’s just too damned dumb to…
What do Pandemics and Climate Breakdown Have in Common? They’re a Lot Easier to Handle If You’re Rich.
We know that, eventually, climate breakdown will exact a heavy toll on every country. However, like pandemics, the burden will be easier to bear for rich countries than for poor…
NYT – "The End of the World Economy As We Know It"
According to the Grey Lady, we’re in for “a rethink of of how much any country wants to be reliant on any other country.” For years I thought it was…
How are "We" Holding Up?
It takes a bit of doing for the average Joe to keep abreast of developments in the multi-discipline area known as climate change. The fields are many linked by research…
The Great Unraveling. Could the Climate Crisis Be the Ultimate Victim of Covid-19?
We’ve always known it would take a Herculean effort and an enormous amount of luck to forge the global consensus needed to tackle climate breakdown. In a dangerously overcrowded world…
Obama: America Can’t Afford to Lose This One.
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden wrapped up in a call to action.
The Long Haul. We’re Only Getting Started.
The impetus, even among relatively progressive governors, to find ways to re-open the economy, carries the blended scent of necessity and desperation. Life must go on even at the cost…
A Virus That Stalks Humanity
There’s a lot of talk these days about lifting the Covid-19 quarantine. The governors of New York and five other east coast states have formed a working group on lifting…
Did Canada Drop the Ball on Covid-19?
The obvious answer is “yes,” the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a litany of quarter- or half-measures, missed opportunities that allowed the virus to win the early…
There’s Nothing I Can Say.
This woman, a young nurse, went to New York, the American Covid-19 epicenter. I have nothing worthy to say.
A Glimmer of Hope
At various centres around the world research is underway to find a vaccine capable of combatting the Covid-19 pandemic. A paper released by the University of Pittsburgh school of medicine…
For Everyone Who Thinks Our Leaders are Being So Heroic. You’re Wrong.
We’ve got ordinary people that decades of neoliberals have consigned to the precariat, the “Gig Economy,” who now put their lives on the line for us every day and not…
Magical Thinking and Dark Conspiracies in the Age of Pandemic
You don’t have to look very far these days before you’ll spot someone who is, to put it crudely, “batshit crazy.” These are lunatics who see “dark forces” hatching sinister…