A Dust-Up, Sure. War? That’s Iffy.
Could the assassination of Iran’s general Suleiman trigger a war? Possibly but we’re not there yet. From America’s perspective, what would war with Iran look like? A Ghadaffi-style bombing campaign…
The Mound of Sound
It’s a Matter of Perspective
When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions Canada is a global pariah. Whether it’s per capita emissions or overall emissions we’re among the real bad boys. On a per capita…
Do You Really Want to Know?
Many of us know that neoliberalism is here to stay. In 2005, Canadian intellectual John Ralston Saul brought us “The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World.” The…
Will Australia Become a Warning for Climate Deniers in Politics?
The words that greeted Aussie prime minister, Scott Morrison, as he greeted a crowd of worried residents of fire-ravaged New South Wales were pretty blunt – “You’re not welcome, you…
The Only Way This Ends Well
It was an easy-peasy take out. A designated target travels to an airport. You have a drone overhead. The target gets into a car. Once clear of the terminal you…
Warsaw and Moscow’s Cat Fight
Russia and Poland are exchanging insults over – World War II. Russia likes to see itself as a victim of the war. Poland, however, has been depicting what was then…
A "Cornerstone of Democracy"
Few things, it seems, better focus the mind than the prospect of a stretch in the Greybar Hotel. ‘Beleaguered Bibi’ Netanyahu, facing corruption charges, told the Likud party faithful that…
The Triumph of Heresy – Chris Hedges
Christianity in America has succumbed to heretics and it gave up without so much as a fight. That’s Chris Hedges’ take on the rise of radical Christianity in the United…
America, the Berserk
Has America ditched the Enlightenment values that inspired its founding fathers to slide into an age of darkness? Former NYT book editor, Michiku Kakutani, writes of the 2010s as the…
Sure, It May Look Bleak, But Just Imagine…
I suppose most science fiction writers are, or tend to be, futurists of a sort. One goes hand in hand with the other to some degree. One of these is…
News From the Front – Red Square
Moscow, the capital where winters have put paid to invaders from Napoleon to Hitler, is trucking in artificial snow this year. Moscow has been so warm this December that the…
When Christianity Embraces the Dark Side
When Vladimir Putin sought to put Russia in his authoritarian grip he had an ally, the Russian Orthodox Church. Liberated from the era of Soviet oppression, the Russian church wasted…
Merry Christmas, Dougie
An early Christmas present for Ontario premier, Doug Ford. Some persons, thought to be environmental activists, decided to give the premier something that he already has in ample abundance –…
Three French Executives Convicted of Hounding Employees to Death.
The deaths of 35 people, all by their own hand, should never be uplifting but the conviction of the culprits who drove them to it is. Three former executives of…
Tory Convention Postponed to November, Next Decade
They must’ve scraped the barrel and didn’t like what they dredged up. Former Conservative leader, Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer, is going to have to stew in ignominy until November, 2020, by…
Trump Backers Unleash New Weapon – Weaponized AI
There are powerful people willing to wreck what little democracy remains in America, anything to get Donald Trump re-elected in 2020. Facebook and Twitter on Friday disabled a global network…
All This ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’ Business. That’s Nonsense.
The record speaks for itself. The current federal government, like its predecessors, can’t be trusted to keep its promises. It doesn’t keep its immediate promises and, as for something that’s…
News From the Front. Making Sense of a Decade of Climate Change Like No Other.
Look outside your window. The world you see today is not the world you experienced in 2010. It’s a different world than any you’ve experienced, vastly different than the world…
Well, This Sounds Reconciliatory. RCMP Prepared to Fire On First Nations Defending Their Lands.
RCMP were prepared to use lethal force to clear away Wet’suwet’en protesters determined to block access to their land. Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction…
He’s Right. There Are Other, More Dangerous Things We Have to Deal With
So, prime minister Justin Trudeau comes out and says that the reported discontent in Alberta and Saskatchewan is not a threat to national unity. I think Justin just grew a…