India Doing Its Bit to Burn the Planet
Forget about China. The greatest driver of runaway global warming may be India. While the EU, the US and China are gearing up for major cuts in CO2 emissions, India…
The Mound of Sound
What Harry Said. Erdogan, Harper – Soul Brothers
Former diplomat Harry Sterling looks at Turkey’s thuggish leader Recep Erdogan and sees much that reminds him of our own prime ministerial punk, Stephen Harper. While Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
Well This is Certainly Awkward
A couple of months ago there were predictions of a mild winter for central and eastern Canada. Update – that’s off, not gonna happen. If you live anywhere from eastern…
Ghomeshi’s Last Stand
Jian Ghomeshi is going to have his say – from the prisoner’s dock. He’ll face four counts of sexual assault and one of overcoming resistance by choking. Unless he cuts…
Washington’s Quagmire Mentality
When it comes to Iraq, or the rest of the Middle East for that matter, America is operating on a number of assumptions rooted in fantasy. These false assumptions ensure…
Okay you Liberal Bastards, What Now?
Trudeau the Lesser’s Liberals did backflips to support Israel’s brutal outrage against Gaza’s civilian population this summer. It was as though no one had ever heard the Israeli military’s term,…
Whether You Support Pipelines or Not, Here’s Something We Can Surely Agree On.
No secret I’m opposed to both Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway. A sizeable majority of British Columbians are of the same mind but a significant minority supports the pipeline initiatives.…
It’s Called "Blowback"
Our confused, incoherent, even knee-jerk response to ISIS appears to be backfiring on us, at least in Syria. There, it’s reported, US air strikes are driving anti-Assad groups – outfits…
Deniers Pretend to be Skeptics. They’re Not.
A lot of climate change deniers present themselves as skeptics. There’s a huge difference that is often overlooked. A denialist is someone who says, “No, the Earth is flat and…
Polar Vortex be Damned. 2014 Could Be the Hottest Year Ever.
Take it from NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. 2014 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record. According to the NOAA, five of the past…
How to Militarize the South China Sea
China is seeking to bolster its military presence in the South China Sea and where better but in the vicinity of the hotly contested Spratley Islands. The prestigious British military…
Does Your Bank Back the Bomb?
We’re all familiar with the ongoing campaign to urge institutions such as universities and churches to divest their shareholdings in fossil fuel companies. Well, if we believe that these institutions…
Harper’s no Conservative. Not remotely. He’s Something Well Past Anything Conservative.
The father of true conservatism is, has always been, Edmund Burke. What I find most interesting about Burke and his conservatism was the underlying grasp of decency. The sad reality…
America’s Back in Business in Afghanistan
The end of America’s combat mission in Afghanistan has, well, ended. The New York Times reports that Obama has signed a no longer secret order re-instating his military’s combat role…
Top British Tories Slam Tony Abbott. Carol Goar Gnaws on Harper.
Who better to give Australian prime minister Tony Abbott a real hiding but a number of prominent Tories. Real Tories, not what passes for conservative under the Harper regime. Real…
Vice Asks, "Who’s Afraid of the Surveillance State?"
Those who hold their freedom cheaply must surely lose it. Since the turn of this century, many Western countries have become true surveillance states. Governments, allied with the commercial sector,…
What Do We Do When the Warnings Stop?
It’s hard to tell what’s going on in our minds but the cognitive dissonance displayed by our political leaders on climate change has apparently taken hold among the rest of…
Justin, Tommy – Please, Please Wake Up!
This Associated Press report from the Houston Chronicle, lays it out about as well as it could be said. The world still isn’t close to preventing what leaders call a…
Grandmas on Weed
Hilarious. In Washington State, 3 grandmothers hit the bong for the very first time. They’re so precious. Now, pass the chocolate chips.
Well, That’s a Plan!
We don’t need to let the Ukraine plunge us back into cold war. There is a way out. A duel. The head of east Ukraine’s separatist People’s Republic of Luhansk…