Americans Get Real About Climate Change – Finally
For 15 years or more I’ve been following how Americans respond to the issue of climate change. It’s about as politicized an issue as any I can recall. The Repugs…
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Rush Limbaugh – One Smoke Over the Line
He’s the dean of open-mouth radio, widely loved by American nativists, xenophobes, racists, misogynists and garden-variety bigots and just as widely deplored by everyone else. Rush Limbaugh, whose signature prop…
The Death Knell for Fossil Fuels?
There’s really not much to like in CNBC’s brash investment guru, Jim Cramer. Until now. Cramer warns that the fossil fuel industry has entered the “death knell stage.” Cramer added…
Sarah’s Eulogy for a Long-Dead Democracy
Is today’s America no longer a democracy but a tyranny? In today’s Globe, Sarah Kendzior persuasively makes the argument. The Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump was never a matter…
News From the Front – "What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear"
Something is happening that the climate modelers didn’t foresee. Well, most of them anyway. Bloomberg reports their models are suddenly running “red hot.” There are dozens of climate models, and…
And This, Kids, Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
It’s not just that governments don’t tax enough. It’s that they don’t tax big incomes and big wealth nearly enough. Economist and professor Richard Wolff argues that modern global capitalism…
Chris Hedges Has a Point
I recently sent an email to a liberal friend in West Virginia. I referenced Thomas Jefferson’s writings on rebellion and asked whether a stacked judiciary, a shamelessly “bought and paid…
Peter MacKay and the Conservative Party Leadership
Apparently Peter Mackay is the only prospective challenger for the Tory throne so far to cough up the $300,000 admission fee. Question. If no one else chooses to throw away…
So Much for the "Sweetness and Light" – EU and UK Get Frisky
Shots are being fired across bows. What’s the point of walking out if you don’t slam a few doors on the way? That seems to be Boris “BoJo” Johnson’s outlook.…
Chevron Takes 2 Billion Dollar Hit on Kitimat LNG
It’s actually $2.12 billion CDN, $1.6 billion USD. That’s the write-off Chevron is taking on its Kitimat LNG investment, an interest the company is still trying to sell. Chevron chief…
Overkill?
Spotted on the Deutsche Welle web site, this photo of a pilot aboard a jetliner flying passengers out of China, presumably Wuhan. Overkill? You decide. A German military aircraft carrying…
Airbus and the Ghost of Brian Mulroney
A blast from the past. A German-Canadian huckster. A former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister. A dodgy prime minister. A European aircraft giant with a reputation for handing out easy money.…
Trump’s "Little Blue Dress" Moment?
It was a semen stain on Monica Lewinsky’s little blue dress that Ken Star used to skewer Bill Clinton. DNA don’t lie. Now Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carrol, who…
French Navy Sails to Defend Greece – Against Turkey
Another story that has gone largely unnoticed on our side of the Atlantic concerns growing tensions between two NATO members, Greece and Turkey, that have now drawn France to send…
Nicola Sturgeon – Scotland Wants Out
Today is not going down well with one of the UK’s component nations, Scotland. First minister, Nicola Sturgeon, put it plainly: “As of 11:00 pm tonight (2300 GMT) the U.K.…
Hungarian Anschluss, Orban Style. Poland Drives Stake Into Heart of Democracy.
There’s a lot going on in Europe these days that escapes much notice on our side of the pond. We hear about the rise of “illiberal democracy,” a term coined…
Is Toronto’s Head on the Climate Block?
Toronto may be in line to get hammered by climate change in the decades to come. Out of 85 major cities around the world, Toronto is projected to experience the…
Brexit – the Final Countdown
The Brits, half of them anyway, are looking forward to midnight and Britain’s official departure from the European Union. The Euros, on a different time zone, will mark the event…
Thanks, Justin. Trans Mountain Pipeline Destroyed Salmon Habitat.
We’re getting steamrollered by Trudeau and his Liberal thugs but the truth still gets out. From the Canadian Press. And a guy named Mike Pearson is blowing the whistle. Work…
Better Than Nothing? Not Really.
The government of the United States of Trump has released a report projecting that US CO2 emissions will decline by a staggering 4 per cent by 2050 from 2019 levels.…