Will Scotland Show Us the Way?
Polly Toynbee writes that Scotland might just show the rest of us the way to reset social democracy. Hint – it involves raising taxes. The Guardian columnist, writing in the…
The Mound of Sound
There It Is Then, Welcome to Our Own Hundred Year War.
According to the former chief of the Australian army, the West has just begun what he foresees to be a hundred year war with Islam. Now “professor” Peter Leahy says…
Chomsky – Gaza In One Paragraph
Noam Chomsky sums up the Gaza butchery: “It’s a hideous atrocity, sadistic, vicious, murderous, totally without any credible pretext. It’s another one of the periodic Israeli exercises in what they…
It’s Like the Noonday Sun to a Vampire – Fascist Governments Cannot Stand the Rule of Law
And by “fascist government” I’m referring to the government of Stephen Harper. Steve doesn’t like the rule of law. I’ll bet he figures Magna Carta was a huge mistake. Our…
China’s Coastal Time Bomb
Algae bloom, Qingdao Much of China’s industrialization has occurred in its coastal areas. As is to be expected, China’s coastal waters have paid a horrible price for the country’s economic…
Mulcair and Trudeau Ignore the Facts
To Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau, Israel’s butchery in Gaza is merely self-defence. That’s their opportunistic story and you’ll get nowhere trying to shift them off it. All of which…
Is It Time to Leave the Muslim World to Sort Out Its Own Troubles?
Harvard international relations professor Stephen Walt makes a compelling argument for a new American approach to the Middle East – hands off. “…the Middle East today is riven by a…
Warning from Germany – We Are "Mentally Mobilizing" for War
Every war is accompanied by a kind of mental mobilization: war fever. An editorial in a leading German financial paper, Handelsblatt, warns of the dangerous spread of war fever through…
If Only the Kaiser Had Won
“Imagine a hundred years from now they’ll be celebrating all this.” Stephen Harper might be in an orgy of triumphalism over the First World War, celebrating Canada’s grand victory, but…
We’re Back
Effective immediately The Disaffected Lib is back in business with no end of thanks to Lorne for putting up with me these past several months. I laid out my reasons…
Here’s the Deal
I’m packing in this blog for a while. It’s simply not worth it. I have other things deserving of my attention that have been too long neglected. One of these…
Go Fu_k Yourselves!
I would rather fight any right winger than a pseudo-leftie any day. I’m of a clan that has defended this country in arms back to 1812. Yet it’s one of…
Define "Progressive"
There are a great many people today who consider themselves progressive who really are anything but. This extends to a great many self-identified Liberals and New Democrats. You find no…
Let’s Not Kid Ourselves. We’re Backing Anti-Semitic Fascists.
Your Country is on Their Side The Guardian’s Seumas Milne dismembers the rank hypocrisy of our position on Ukraine, the role we played in creating this crisis and the villainous…
Were the Maidan Murders the Work of the Ukrainian Opposition, a Staged Provocation?
We know that in the Ukrainian unrest, no side has clean hands exactly. The pro-Europe group we’re backing is generously laced with some pretty nasty types. One incendiary moment that…
He’s Back! Bruce Carson Under Investigation for Influence Peddling.
Former top aide to Stephano Harper, Bruce Carson, is back in the news and, predictably, it’s bad news. CBC reports that the disgraced senior advisor to Mr. Harper is the…
Dog in the Manger Mulcair Won’t Back Federalists in Quebec Election
He claims to be the leader of the official opposition for Canada but Tom Mulcair says he’ll stay neutral in the Quebec provincial election. Why won’t he support the federalist…
You Know the Tories are Running Scared When They Go to Pot
Hey, hey – whatever happened to Harper’s Reefer Madness? Word from Elmer’s unfortunate boy, Peter MacKay, is that the Harper regime is looking to backpeddle on its get tough on…
Let’s Be Honest – Canada Will Wind Up With the F-35, Largely by Default
It may be the biggest military blunder in Canadian history but all signs point to our country succumbing to the F-35, Lockheed’s first-strike, light attack bomber. Harper, the ultimate stealth…