Cheating the Future
The trouble with austerity-obsessed politicians is their inability to resist stealing from the future. Wary of upsetting the voters, these morally-lacking pols, try to shield them from cuts by paring…
The Mound of Sound
Banking on Failure
If you’re like most people, it doesn’t feel like we ever fully recovered from the crash of ’08. For most, the past five years have been stagnant at best and…
The NSA’s Toy Catalogue
Spiegel Online has posted an interactive graphic that shows spyware from a 50-page NSA catalogue of the devices and prices of snooping gear they had on offer. It runs the…
Have We Finally Had It with Harper?
A Nanos poll suggests Canadians may finally have had it with the automaton of Sussex Drive. Canadians’ unhappiness with the federal government grew dramatically in 2013, judging by the results…
Policy Time in Ottawa.
Working up policy around an electoral cycle is fine – for a while. Leave it too long, however, as the Liberals plainly have, and it creates an impression of a…
What If the Poor Simply Stopped Paying the Rich?
I owe you money but you’ve just ruined my well. You don’t want to compensate me for the damage you’ve caused. What if I said, “fine, I’ll take the money…
Nuclear Terrorism in India?
Most of us don’t spend a lot of time focusing on terrorism in India. You might not have even heard of the Indian Mujahideen or “IM”. As you might have…
Yesterday’s Heresy Might Finally Be Turning Into Today’s Orthodoxy
Will 2013 be seen as the year the world (a.k.a. America) clued in to the reality of climate change? A shift does seem to be happening when papers such as…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Here’s a little food for thought. Okay, done?
Le Monde Warns – The Coup of Global Corporatism Is Nearly Complete
They’re negotiating the final text for what might be the concluding treaty surrendering state sovereignty, and democracy, to the forces of corporatism. According to Le Monde, the deal aims to…
Big Agra Devouring Africa
Last year the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization declared what multinationals already knew, the world has entered a state of permanent food insecurity. Around the world major corporations are snatching…
When You’re Not Playing With a Full Deck
The Centre for Economics and Business Research, (CEBR) recently brought a smile to David Cameron’s mug with the prediction that, by 2030, Britain’s economy will be larger than Germany’s. The…
Will We Have to Pay For Playing?
Can you imagine Canada being hit with a claim for tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for our greenhouse gas emissions? Can you imagine the Americans…
Arctic Sea Ice in 30-Seconds
In just 30-seconds you’ll have a good understanding of what’s happened to Arctic sea ice over the past 34-years.
What’s In Your Guts?
Another gem from Mother Jones. What’s in, or rather not in, your guts could determine your propensity to obesity or diabetes.
A Picture That’s Worth a Thousand Dreams
Here’s your New Years present from Mother Jones. Carolyn Porco, one of Carl Sagan’s protégés, went on to become the head of imaging science for the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting…
Justice, Amurican Style
In Texas, if you’re a rich kid who gets behind the wheel drunk and winds up killing four people, the curse of affluence is enough of a defence to keep…
Hey, Steve. They’re Coming Back.
Although the Russian economy has been stagnant of late, Moscow (a.k.a. Vlad Putin), continues its major rearmament programme. Here is the Russkie’s newest “boomer” or nuclear missile sub. The Dolgoruky…
What’s In a Name?
The Harper regime has decided to stick it to the Americans. Canada’s two new support ships are to be named Queenston and Chateauguay to commemorate battles in which British forces…
What Do You Stand For? The Country or the State?
You’re at that point where you have to choose. Do you support the state, embodied in a Conservative, New Democrat or Liberal government, or do you support the country, Canada…