Since Obama started this ‘get ISIS’ coalition-building business, the Sunni Arab world has been conspicuous by its absence. The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief foreign correspondent, Paul McGeough, weighs in on…
The allegation: our longtime NATO partner, Turkey, has been supporting al-Qaeda in Syria. The accuser, Francis Ricciardone, until late June the American ambassador to Turkey. “Turkey has directly supported al-QAeda’s…
Has the world already stumbled into a third world war? Pope Francis thinks that could well be the case. Denouncing war as “madness”, the Pope made his remarks while visiting…
God exists. I know this because He’s on Twitter. From the “Tweet of God”: I’m restoring the world to factory settings.Life is sexually transmitted.The great thing about sarcasm is, no…
In the run-up to the release of her new book, “This Changes Everything,” Naomi Klein has come clean. For far too long she was in what she describes as a…
Barack Obama has a mess on his hands in Iraq and has no idea what to do to clean it up. And so he falls back on neo-America’s default option…
Al Jazeera pulls the wings off Boeing’s 787 to reveal the “new Boeing” where profit comes first, even at the expense of quality. There was a time when “Boeing” meant…
Saudi Armour on Anti-Democracy Patrol in Bahrain That was the headline from the BBC report on a mini-summit attended by US State Secretary, John Kerry, and senior officials from Saudi…
Too soon? Too cold? Sorry. When it was announced yesterday that Mayor Rob Ford’s doctors discovered he has developed a tumour I was surprised, sort of (not really). For a…
The events of the past few months have made us again think of the unthinkable. A resurgent Russia, talk from its president about the use of nuclear weapons, the deployment…
The BBC has a report on Canadian researchers who have discovered an apparent link between sustained use of a broad family of sleep and anxiety medications and the development of…
In May, 2013, Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara used their lobster boat to block a ship carrying a load of coal for a power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts. At trial…
Earth may have had just about enough of us. One indication that we may be outstaying our planetary welcome is the spike in atmospheric greenhouse gases in 2013. Part of…
The Dutch Safety Board will release its preliminary report into the July downing of Malaysian Airways flight MH-17 over Ukraine. The report will supposedly divulge details from the flight data…
Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything, will be out next week. The theme of the book is change or be changed. Klein argues that the only way mankind will…
New Rule: Don’t get into mutual defence treaties with countries you’re not prepared to die to defend. How many NATO member nations can you name? This isn’t a game. It’s…
“You’ve got to deal with the fact that it’s happening. And what are you going to do with those of us on the edge?” Grayson Chesser’s ancestors came to Chesapeake…
Vlad Putin is going for his nukes and we need to grasp our role in getting him there. Russia is re-arming with a new class of nuclear submarines, a new…
NATO’s outgoing CEO, er Secretary-General, Anders ‘Foggy’ Rasmussen, should really send caviar and roses to Vladimir Putin. NATO hasn’t done all that well on Foggy’s watch – the cock-up in…
