Stock Up on AK-47s. They’re a Hot Commodity.
They’re flying off the shelves of gunstores across the United States. Russian AK-47 assault rifles have become a hot commodity literally overnight since they were added to Obama’s import restrictions…
The Mound of Sound
It’s Called "Virtual Water"
Water-stressed Israel realized this year ago when it recognized that its exports of Jaffa oranges were really exporting “virtual water.” It took scarce water to grow the orange and when…
Pentagon Exploits Tensions Over Ukraine, Pushes for Multi-Purpose Sensor Chain Across Canada’s Arctic
Arrest that Man, He’s From Russia! They sure know how to pick their opportunities. At the very moment NATO leaders are in Wales fretting over what to do with Vlad…
NATO Leaders Huddle and Fume While Putin Chuckles
NATO’s Drang Nach Osten There’ll be an absolute glut of righteous indignation when NATO leaders convene this week in Wales to decide whatever to do with that big bad bully,…
Mr. Prime Minister, One of These Is Almost Exactly Like the Other
– Steve Bell, The Guardian
Sometimes In Life, It’s the Little Things That Matter
It’s really a little thing. A little worse. A little more frequent. A little longer lasting. A little more severe. A little more damaging. That’s the face of early onset…
Feed’Em or Weep
They’re finally figuring it out. An editorial from The Dallas Morning News warns that unless the US launches a major food relief effort to Central America, the country faces a…
London Has Denounced It. So Has Washington. Why the Complicit Silence from Canada?
Israel has just taken another massive bite out of the Palestinian West Bank homeland. Britain has condemned the land grab, so has Washington. As for Canada, “what land grab?” As…
Busting the Cartel
“this country should no longer tolerate a situation where the public interest in so vital a field as information dependent on the greed or goodwill of an extremely privileged group…
Paying the Bagpiper
Few are more familiar with stealth that our own prime minister, Steve Harper. He’s a master at incrementalism, the dark art of achieving unacceptable goals by a succession of steps,…
Could America Break Its Own Bank on a Russian Anvil?
The sanctions being plastered on Russia by the US and her allies are already having a rebound effect, especially in Europe. Russia is not only the major supplier of the…
Restoring the Vox Populi
Some thoughts for this, Labour Day.The voice of the people. Oh, how long has it been since that really meant anything? In Canada and many other advanced countries, polls show…
India – Superbug Time Bomb
India is the worst but it’s not alone. All of the emerging economic superpowers share the same problem – the abuse of antibiotics. For India, it’s the result of a…
The Coldest-Ever Cold War?
When I stumbled across a report yesterday about NATO raising a 10,000 strong, standing “expeditionary force” and that Canada was interested in contributing soldiers, I thought, “oh Jeebus, not again.”…
NATO’s New Legion – Is Canada In?
NATO is organizing a 10,000 strong “expeditionary force” with an eye clearly on the Ukraine. The aim is to create a fully functioning, division-sized force for rapid deployment and regular,…
Banging the War Drum – Washington Post
It was earlier this month that the German financial newspaper, Handelsblatt, warned of the dangerous spread of war fever throughout Europe. The paper found that Europeans were being “mentally mobilized”…
And a Happy Labour Day Weekend to You, Mr. Harper
The Times Colonist got the Labour Day weekend off to an early start with two op-eds this morning. Both of them concerned our prime minister, Stephen J. Harper. Mike Robinson…
With Climate Change Sometimes There are Winners and Losers.
Washington State has a water problem. It’s a warm water problem. A report in The Seattle Times says warmer Pacific waters off Washington are diverting salmon runs to Canada. Unusually…
Oh, Crap! Sorry, I Meant the Ukraine.
Vlad Putin, it seems, has a response to the hectoring recently from the likes of Sideshow Steve Harper and John Baird and others – “meet me in the Arctic.” The…
How the Right-Wing Media Machine Slimed Michael Brown
Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter – not an ounce, not one ounce of integrity among them. In the wake of the execution of Michael Brown in Ferguson,…