The military use of climate modification has been verboten since 1976 but one Rutgers professor is getting antsy about America’s spy agencies’ interests in geo-engineering. Climate scientist Alan Robock, “has…
Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah. They’re Iraqi cities now occupied and controlled by ISIS. Mosul is Iraq’s second largest city. Tikrit is the home town of Saddam Hussein. Fallujah is the…
Fresh warnings about the prospects for mega-drought in the American southwest. 20, 30, 50 year droughts? Factor that into America’s desert cities where water is already scarce. There’s a lot…
One of the perks that comes with being justice minister is the ability to lay on the pork. Peter MacKay seems to have that well in hand. Why, just ask…
Harper spokesman, Jason MacDonald, is out. MacDonald is hightailing it to p.r. firm Hill & Knowlton. 17-months on the job, MacDonald is 8th to hold the job since Harper came…
Interesting opinion/speculation piece from Harry Stirling in this morning’s Times Colonist.Now there is some speculation that, due to the abrupt resignation of Baird, coupled with Adams’ defection, Harper himself might…
Barack Obama may have had enough of Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunts. It might just be time for Bibi to go. Foreign Policy’s Aaron David Miller writes that Obama is pursuing regime…
FOX News North is down the toilet. Nobody wanted to watch the drivel dished up by Ezra & Co. so management decided it was time to give it the big…
In this age of pan-neoliberalism, party lines are no longer clearly demarcated. Market fundamentalism is embedded at the core of all three of Canada’s mainstream parties no matter how much…
Well, that didn’t take long. Just days after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the criminal prohibition on physician assisted suicide, Harper justice minister Peter MacKay let’s slip the…
Bibi Netanyahu is at it again. Maybe he got late night orders from his boss, Sheldon Adelson, who knows? In any case Netanyahu has waded into the prestigious “Israel Prize”…
Angela Merkel and Francoise Hollande seem to have pulled it off – a peace deal to end the civil war in Ukraine. What no one is even asking is if…
If Canada needs a model for our assisted suicide legislation, we could learn a lot from Oregon. The state’s Death with Dignity Act has been in effect since 1994 and…
In today’s “black & white” political world, Canada is squarely and uncritically on the side of the Kiev government. The Russian-supported rebels are bad. Putin is bad. The Crimea is…
I get it. Brian Williams apparently made up an account of being on a helicopter that was shot down. He’s been suspended for six months. Okay, fair enough, it’s not…
Australia’s caricature of a prime minister, Tony Abbott, has wasted no time since narrowly defeating his backbench to hold onto his job, in confirming what the Australian public have long…
In the States, Republican presidential hopefuls grovel before him, each seeking his approval – and money. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu does the very same. The man they all worship is…
Watch this CN locomotive utterly demolish snowbanks blocking the tracks near Salisbury, New Brunswick. The first minute is awesome and then reality sets in. The train is hauling oil tank…
China’s anti-graft agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, has accused the nation’s environmental agency of corruption. Environmental degradation is one of China’s most serious issues and a very sensitive…
Sorry, but it’s time to cull the herd. In California some parents are organizing “measles parties” where they all bring their unvaccinated kids, infected and not, to mingle. They’re hoping…
