The Great Rent in the Community of Nations
We’re all about ISIS. God we hate ISIS. We fear ISIS. It’s a threat to our very civilization, our way of life. That, so long as by “we”, you’re referring…
The Mound of Sound
It’s Come to This. I Suppose That Should Be No Surprise.
From now on I’ll never think of “the Donald” quite the same way again. Artist Fernando Sosa was feeling pretty disgusted with Trump’s bigoted slurs against the Mexican people and…
Trump’s Freudian Slip?
Great news for Donald Trump. A new poll has him in first place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Around the same time the poll was released, Trump…
Will BC Be Harper’s Oily Watery Grave?
It’s been said before. Might as well say it again. A lot of British Columbians are deeply opposed to oil tanker traffic endangering our coast. Harper hasn’t got the message…
IMF Breaks From Troika, Says Greece Needs Massive Debt Relief and Now!
The Reich Chancellor is not going to be pleased. The International Monetary Fund apparently can’t bite its tongue any longer and has come out foresquare against Angela Merkel’s brutal austerity…
Merkel’s Toxic Tonic
Has German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s subjugation of Greece inadvertently poisoned European unity? That’s how a pro-EU lobby group sees it. “The last few weeks have laid totally bare the European…
The Royal Canadian "Rent a Boat" Navy
There’s a new ship in Esquimalt harbour. It’s the Chilean navy’s Almirante Montt, a provisioning/replenishment/supply ship that we had to rent because we don’t have any of our own left.…
Thailand’s U-Boats.
It caused a bit of a stir when, a couple of weeks ago, Thailand announced that it had inked a deal to buy three, diesel-electric submarines from China. Over the…
If You Don’t Know What to Call It, Try "Blitzkrieg"
It’s the same old problem – once you get the panzers rolling, how in heaven do you stop them? Writing in Foreign Policy, Philippe LeGrain laments the sack of Athens…
Sure We Have to Get Rid of Harper But Why Stop There?
I haven’t heard the NDP’s shining star, Rachel Notley, say they’re wrong. I haven’t heard Trudeau the Lesser or Tommy Angry Beard say they’re wrong either. I certainly haven’t heard…
The Premiers’ Pernicious Plot – War On Our Grandkids
So much for “social licence.” The Globe has discovered the underhanded double-dealing our premiers are planning to unveil at their summit this week to fast-track bitumen pipelines and sweep away…
A Sunday Sermon – Rebellion
Chris Hedges discusses his new book, Wages of Rebellion. You can watch the second and third parts to this interview on YouTube.
What Got Dave to Come Back from Retirement? Of Course, Trump.
In other Trump news, the Republican presidential nominee contender, is spending the weekend in Arizona where he’s attending a rally with scofflaw and bigot, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Here’s The Ugliest…
El Nino Is Coming for Christmas.
They’re calling it a “flash mob” of typhoons being spawned out of the unusually warm waters of the central Pacific. It is a succession of cyclonic storms, hurricanes, that are…
What If Crazy Ol’ Pat is Right?
Just get’em some muskets and grey uniforms and they’ll be away to the races. This, according to uber rightwinger Pat Buchanan, who says all this gay stuff like legalizing same…
Hey Calgary, What Do You Say?
Is there some way you can have a rodeo maybe without the torture?
A Seismic Jolt That Most Won’t Even Notice
Just consider it the 21st century version of the “Great Game,” the superpower struggle to wrest control of South Asia. While it used to be a contest between Russia and…
We Have to Take Down the Fossil Fuel Industry. That Includes Our Own.
He’s probably the most prominent climate scientist most North Americans have never heard of but you can get caught up by reading his Wiki entry here. He’s Hans Joachim Schellnhuber…
Another Tory Spits in Canada’s Eye
She’s the Environment Minister, for chrissakes! And the conference was being held in Toronto. So why was Harper Enviroshill, Leona Aglukkak a no-show at the Climate Summit of the Americas?…
Another Nail in the F-35’s Coffin
Another damning report on the F-35 and, once again, it’s from the website War is Boring that last week broke the leaked test pilot report showing that the Joint Strike…