The Double Bind of Climate Change
I’m still hopeful that we will see a workable, international agreement on climate change in 2015 but why does that have to feel like a pensive Charlie Brown with Lucy…
The Mound of Sound
What Is the Meaning Of All This Chaos?
I am always amazed at how television pundits manage to call elections when just a fraction of cast votes have been counted. It’s always been a matter of considerable frustration…
When Overshoot Meets Inequality
Tuesday marked Earth Overshoot Day, 2014. August 19th was the day by which humankind had consumed an entire year’s production of renewable resources. Overall that means we’re using resources more…
This Is What Happens When You Run Out of Water.
Could you get by for three weeks with 12-gallons of water? That’s a smidge over 45-litres which works out to about 2 litres per day. In Porterville, California, the county…
We Need To Do What These Guys Are Doing
“These guys” are the Brits. What they’re doing is taking an inventory of their transportation infrastructure to assess its vulnerability to severe storm events caused by ‘early onset’ climate change.…
The Relentless Advance of the Surveillance/Security State
I’m not sure how this can be abused but I expect clever minds will be exploiting it very soon. How about a smartphone app that allows cops to zero in…
The Washington Post Asks – Was Putin Right?
It was last September when Vladimir Putin penned an op-ed about Syria that ran in The New York Times. The West rejected Putin’s views then but now The Washington Post…
It’s Not That We Disagree, It’s That I Despise Your Ideas
When ever I read another article and view another series of photographs of the carnage Israel has inflicted on the civilian population of Gaza and then think of the Netanyahu…
Ferguson, Missouri Reveals How Much America Has Lost.
British historian/journalist, Dr. Tim Stanley, weighs in on the militarization of American society. He writes, “America is entering an arms race with its citizens.” The schools of Compton, Los Angeles,…
Taking America Back to a Darker Time
The aftermath of the police execution of a black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri continues. The Policy.mic web site has a report on public generosity that has raised $200,000…
Russian Army Now Fighting in Ukraine
NATO claims that Russian army artillery units manned by Russian soldiers have entered Ukraine and are firing on Ukrainian forces. The Russian move represents a significant escalation of the Kremlin’s…
About that Urban Warfare Business
Can You Spot the Uniform? There’s been a lot of focus recently on militarized police and on the use of regular army forces to quell civilian unrest in the United…
Vancouver Marches National Energy Board into Court
The City of Vancouver is going to court. It’s goal is to get an order requiring that climate change impacts be considered by the ersatz-National Energy Board hearings on Kinder-Morgan’s…
In Today’s Flash Flooding News
Our cousins in Winnipeg are dealing with the celestial overflow that triggered flash flooding. The Weather Network attributed it to the, by now standard, slow-moving rainstorm that hit the city…
The Mystery of California’s Vanishing Groundwater
You may have already heard about it. California, the Golden State, is reeling from three years of continuous, severe drought. Of course you’ve heard about it. The California drought is…
Famine In the Americas
Red Cross food relief for central Mexico When we think of famine, we tend to think of Africa. Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan seem to come to mind. FEWS Net, the Famine…
A Duty to Abort?
In recent weeks the atheist crowd were left to cringe as one of their leaders, British scientist Richard Dawkins, appeared to defend “light pedophilia.” Dawkins said his own schoolboy experience…
Is Obama Bombing the Right Targets?
Maybe Obama needs to expand the target list for his bombers trying to thwart Islamist extremists in Iraq. Why not bomb a few royal palaces in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and…
Could Harper Deploy Troops Against Canadians?
I was taken aback by a post from Geoff Kennedy at Parchment in the Fire entitled, “EU Advisors Advocate use of Military Against Strikes and Protests | Global Research.” The…
Harper’s War on Charities is a War on All of Us
Never underestimate the scope and impact of the Harper regime’s war to gag our charities. Oxford student and 2013 Rhodes Scholar, Joanne Cave writes in today’s Times Colonist that the…