Climate Change Petri Dish
It’s not a couple of low-lying islands about to sink under a risking sea. It is the 7th-most populous country in Asia, 12th in the world.Its 92-million people are scattered…
The Mound of Sound
Iraq Runs Dry
Just what a country riven by ethnic and religious conflict needs – a water crisis. The country is Iraq where Shiite and Sunni struggles overlap into Arab, Persian and Kurdish…
Meat Kills Our Environment
A United Nations Environment Programme report urges people in wealthy countries to become “demitarians” by cutting their meat consumption by half. The reduction is said to be necessary to curb…
Canadian’s Don’t Buy Mulcair’s "50 Plus One" Pitch
Three out of four Canadians reject NDP leader Tom Mulcair’s contention that the barest of majorities, 50 per cent plus one, in support of Quebec sovereignty should oblige the federal…
Canadians Are On To Harper’s "Action Plan" Propaganda
Eight polls, all of them of course on your tax dollar, were commissioned by the federal finance department between 2009 and 2012 to learn that Canadians are fed up with…
Another Day, Another Warning, This Time from the World Bank
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim had a blunt message for G20 finance ministers meeting in Moscow, telling them it’s time they “tackle the serious challenges presented by climate change.”…
Rube, Rube, Rubio
Maybe they should have stuck with Bobby Jindal. Up and coming Republican Marco Rubio of Florida was picked to give the GOP rebuttal to president Obama’s State of the Union…
What the Stones Did for Me – and For You Too
For nearly half a century I’ve been a devoted follower of the Rolling Stones. Still am, always will be. They came along in the wake of the Beatles but what…
Another Day, Another Warning
The American Association for the Advancement of Science annual convention is underway in Boston and climate change seems to be what everyone is talking about. Heat waves have become more…
Crowdfunding – The Way to Get Help Where It’s Needed
It’s easy to balk when you’re asked to donate a hundred bucks to this cause or that or to take on an open-ended, monthly donation to help some individual or…
UN Security Council Delves Into Climate Change
The United Nations Security Council is conducting hearings to explore the connections between climate change and global conflict. Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous…
New Studies Confirm Conservatives are Fear-Driven
Sideshow Steve Harper understands the power of fear to distract and manipulate his supporters. He conjures up images of threats and dangers and watches his Conservative flock recoil in shock…
3C, Maybe. 5C, Possibly.
The British scientist who formerly chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we’ve pretty much lost any chance of holding climate heating to 2C and now have just…
America’s Tab for 2008? 22-Trillion Dollars.
The non-partisan Government Accounting Office has done the math on the 2008 financial crisis and concludes it cost America over 22-trillion dollars. “The 2007-2009 financial crisis, like past financial crises,…
Making Sense of Iraq, Ten Years On
The Hawks were wrong. That’s the view of Huffington Post UK political director, Mehdi Hasan, about Iraq ten years after the Anglo-American conquest. Hasan concludes that, contrary to neo-con mythology,…
Rome Lives on in the Roman Catholic Church
Gwynne Dyer points out that Roman Catholic is more than just a name. How Roman are the traditions and instincts of the church that Pope Benedict XVI has led for…
Sheila Fraser Calls for Regular Audits of Commons and Senate
Former auditor general, Sheila Fraser, says Canadians shell out half a billion dollars a year on Parliament and are entitled to know where their money is going and how it’s…
Harper’s Grotesque Spectacle
Maybe we should call him Sideshow Steve for, when it comes to distracting the Canadian public with gimmicks, Steve Harper has the instincts and moral compass of a carnival barker.…
Video of Meteor that Hit Russia
Pretty dramatic stuff
The China Dream
Prominent Chinese military officers are speaking of an east Asia from which the U.S. has been forced out. And they’re hoping to see that reality within 20-years. Senior Colonel Liu…