A Breath of Humanity and Compassion from the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on the side of the terminally ill in a decision that’s bound to have Big C and small c conservatives seething. The Supreme…
The Mound of Sound
Casting Bones and Reading Entrails
John Baird has resigned from the Harper cabinet and from his seat in Parliament. It seems no one knew about it much more than 24-hours before the public announcement. The…
Banging the War Drums
If you thought you had heard the last of insanely bellicose Anders Fogh “Foggy” Rasmussen when his term as NATO secretary-general lapsed, you were wrong. He’s back and he’s talking…
Has ISIS Already Failed?
The political blanket wrapped around the fight against ISIS tends to prevent any reliable assessment of what’s going on in Iraq and Syria. That’s doubly true in Canada where, as…
US Navy Slashes F-35 Order
The United States Navy has decided not to put all its eggs in the F-35 basket. The navy has trimmed its order for the 2016-2020 period by full third. It…
Is Harper’s Blood Brother, Tony Abbott, Heading for the Chop?
Tony Abbott is on the ropes. The Australian public have about had it with his ways – equal parts thuggish and thick. Finally members of his own party seem to…
USA Today Boots Bibi to the Curb
A recent editorial in USA Today is getting a good bit of coverage in the Israeli press. It suggests that no good lies in store for either country in Benjamin…
The New Frontier is the Russian Border
Think of it as the new equivalent of the East German-West German border. It was across that border that NATO (i.e. US) and Warsaw Pact (i.e. Soviet) forces glared at…
A Trillion Dollars Worth of Stranded Assets
A stranded asset is any asset that gets hit by “unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities.” These days the term is most commonly applied to high-cost, high-carbon…
Norway Dumps High Carbon Fossil Fuels. Adios, Athabasca.
It’s the largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet; Norway’s pride and Canada’s shame; and it’s divesting, getting out of coal, bitumen, concrete and gold mining. If Steve Harper and…
Vlad Putin – NATO’s Essential Enemy
Vlad Putin has given NATO – well, nothing less than a reason to exist a little longer. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO was a headless chicken, running…
The Danger of the Lone Wolf
Canada’s had its share of lone wolf terrorism. In fact, most of the worst incidents have been the work of lone wolf terrorists. They’re loners, often unhinged and looking for…
Obama Comes Clean. Putin Didn’t Plot to Seize Crimea.
Go Ahead, Pick One. Oh my, my, what comes out of the mouth of that man! The Western narrative we’ve been force fed by liars like Harper and his collaborators…
A Visit Netanyahu May Come to Regret
Joe Biden won’t commit to being there. The Democratic caucus might give it a pass too. The “it” is Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on 3 March.…
We Get Calls
“Hello. I’m calling on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada.” “Yeah.” “What do you consider the most pressing issue facing Canada?” “The environment.” “Do you know that Stephen Harper…
A Fresh Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy?
He’s not the standard whack job we associate with Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. In fact he served on the Warren Commission and, being one of its younger staffers, is still…
What Neoliberalism Has in Store For You
click to enlarge From Le Monde, a timely explanation of how disastrous neoliberalism continues to thrive despite an endless string of economic disasters and what it holds in store for…
Saudi Royals Fingered
A former al Qaeda operative now serving life in a supermax federal prison in Colorado has testified to meeting the current Saudi monarch, Salman, and other princes when he delivered…
They’ve Already Shown You Their True Colours. And You’ll Vote for Them, Why?
My party has only one voice in Parliament but it’s a voice against which all the rest are to be measured and, when you do that, you get to see…
The Clean Energy Light at the End of the Tunnel
High carbon energy’s days are numbered. A report from IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, predicts a 40% drop in the cost of renewable energy over the next few years.…