Germany Wants NSA Corporate Puppets Banned from European Union
Among the revelations from the NSA data mining scandal have been the identities of companies that aided and abetted the effort. Germany’s justice minister is calling for the EU to…
The Mound of Sound
Is America Courting War with China?
Ever since it staged Operation Chimichanga, a dress-rehearsal of a stealth, first-strike attack to take out Chinese air defences, America has been treading gingerly along what may be the road…
The GOP War on Working Class America
Freshmen GOP – 2010 Paul Krugman recently questioned the sanity of Congressional Republicans who, he contends, have inflicted such a level of dysfunctionality on the federal government as to leave…
What’s It Going to Be This Time?
The United States is bracing for another major terrorist attack. Embassies are shuttered, the nation is on high alert. Terrorist signals traffic is said to be higher than at any…
Geriatric Pipelines?
An analysis of the pipeline failure that spilled 200,000 gallons of Athabasca dilbit in Mayflower, Arizona concluded there was a manufacturing fault in the pipe. Here’s the thing. The pipe…
He’s Crazy About the Schnitzel
In Colorado Springs, a bear loves the leftovers from the Edelweiss restaurant so much that he makes off with the entire dumpster.
Could "America’s Quiet Environmental Revolution" Sound Last Call for Athabasca Bitumen?
A PostMedia article discusses what it calls America’s “quiet environmental revolution,” a nationwide, broadbased movement away from fossil fuels toward non-carbon alternatives. Even the most unlikely Americans are taking up…
130 Years of a Warming Planet
NASA has produced a short animation showing how our world has warmed since 1880. This is based on weather data gathered from 1,000 stations around the world. Blue is cold,…
Waziristan on the Potomac
Congressional Republicans hold Loya Jirga What happens when the world’s most powerful nation becomes ungovernable? Often when authority becomes ineffective it gives rise to power vacuums that invite other actors,…
Four Ex-EPA Administrators, All Republican, Call for Urgent Action to Arrest Climate Change
You’ll probably recognize some of their names – Willam D. Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. Over the past 43 years, each of them served a…
Sometimes a Simple Graph Says It All – We’re Getting More Pessimistic With Each Generation
The Brookings Institute has undertaken a survey of economic values in America. The study also revealed that progressivism is far from extinct in the Land of Free Enterprise Capitalism. Despite…
Standing Up for Paul Bernardo
Yes, he did monstrous things, utterly heinous crimes. Yes he deserves to be imprisoned for the full, 25-year stretch if not for life itself. That said, why is Paul Bernardo…
Arms Race Update – Chinese Prepare for "Peoples’ War" in Cyberspace
It doesn’t take bullets, bombs and rockets to kill people and cripple nations. Our almost insane dependence on computers today creates all the vulnerability a determined, sophisticated enemy needs to…
Sure, the Iron Curtain Fell, But What’s Going Up In Its Place?
When the Berlin Wall came down it quickly led to the liberation of eastern Europe and the demise of the Soviet Union. Western European leaders, egged on by the United…
Krugman – Sexism and the Federal Reserve
Misogyny in the U.S. goes straight to the top, even right into the Federal Reserve. Paul Krugman shines a light on the sexist campaign going on to undermine the eminently…
"This Is The Future. Get Used To It."
China has declared a “level 2” weather emergency, a warning normally reserved for typhoons. This time it’s for a massive and prolonged heat wave that has settled in over the…
Great, Just Great. Global Warming Might Make Cops (And Maybe You) Even More Trigger Happy.
A new study chronicles the link between warming and violence of all sorts at all levels from individuals to entire nations. And that goes for cops too. The Syrian conflict…
Stopping Light or Stopping Time?
I don’t get it but apparently German scientists managed to stop, or I suppose “arrest”, light for one full minute. In light speed, that’s about 18-million kilometres. While light normally…
That Cold Lake Bitumen Spill – It Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
The 10-week old Cold Lake bitumen spill is expected to stop – basically whenever it stops itself. The company, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., says there’s nothing it can do to…
A Look at How Extremists Have the Republican Party in a Death Grip
Two prominent Democrats have decided to dig into the rotting corpse of the Republican movement to get a look at what lurks inside. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and political strategist…