Alberta Tories Bought One Vote, Mine
It’s enough to make your blood boil. Alberta Conservatives are bent on meddling in British Columbia‘s upcoming provincial election. They’re running a campaign to raise Alberta donations to support Christy…
The Mound of Sound
Forget Champagne & Reefer. Make Mine a Bicycle & Dope.
I don’ wanna live like Buddy Guy. I wanna live like Lance Armstrong. Here’s his house, or one of them any way. And this is the room where he keeps…
WTF? The Polar Vortex Has Split in Two?
On Monday there were reports of mid-January flooding in Anchorage, Alaska. Now the Polar Vortex has split, apparently the result of massive heating from below. Follow the link above to…
An American Makes the Case for Public Healthcare
Public healthcare works. Ask any American senior citizen. The Washington Post’s Harold Meyerson explains: …a funny thing happens to Americans’ life expectancy when they age. The U.S. mortality rate is…
NRA Gets Its Tits Caught in Its Very Own Wringer
If the National Rifle Association needed to convince Americans, including staunch Republicans, that it was an extremist and perhaps truly unstable outfit, it could not have done better than it…
To All My Progressive Friends, You Dwindling Few
Progressivism is now pretty thoroughly scrubbed out of the Liberal Party and it’s in a state of respiratory distress even in today’s Tony Blairified NDP. Fortunately there are still progressive…
Beelzebub’s Minions Have Done His Bidding.
By Beelzebub I mean the Prince of Darkness himself, Stephen Harper. His minions are today’s corporate media cartel outlets – the warlords of information messaging – Sun News, G&M, PostMedia,…
Records Upon Records
In 2011 the United States set a record for record-breaking weather-related events. Record rainfall, record snowfall, record temperatures, record FEMA-declared natural disasters, record wildfires, and record drought. There were 3,251…
The Atlantic’s Brush with Scientology
In an age in which messaging has quietly replaced information as the backbone of a corporate media cartel the opportunities for perverting public awareness could just be limitless. Take the…
A Warning Straight from the Horse’s Mouth. We’re In For a High-Carbon Fossil Fuel Future
If you were counting on “peak oil” to curb our fossil fuel addiction, forget it. BP CEO Bob Dudley says the peak oil theory is “increasingly groundless.” It’s not that…
America’s Eastern Seaboard Now a Sitting Duck
The outgoing director of the U.S. Geological Survey says Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that cities along America’s eastern seaboard are now sitting ducks. Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation…
It’s Hard to See Any Other Way Forward
We are going to have to accept substantially higher costs for liquid-carbon fuel. There are some uses, such as aviation, that just don’t suit alternative energy options, at least not…
How the South Kept Slavery Alive for Generations After the Civil War
Slavery, we were taught, was ended in America by Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Southern blacks continued to suffer persecution of almost any sort for decades afterwards but at…
Three Ways Stephen Harper Aided al Qaeda in Mali
Scott Taylor of Espirit de Corps magazine indicts Stephen Harper for repeatedly aiding al Qaeda in Mali and now turning his back on the mess he helped create.
World Economic Forum Releases Top Risks List
The World Economic Forum is fearful of an imminent risk of major systemic economic failure. “…high in the rankings of nail-biting concerns were also risks related to climate change, both…
Mid-January Flooding Hits Alaska
Homeowners in Anchorage are having to cope with a new winter challenge – flooding in mid-January Alaska. That’s right – Alaska – mid-January – flooding. Some call it a Chinook,…
What Lies in Store for Our Neighbours to the South
This is taken directly from the draft National Climate Assessment prepared by U.S. government scientists for release next year. It is taken from the introduction to the chapter on water.…
You Can’t Fix This Math
Here’s the problem. Population is going up, food supply is heading the other way. The world is already in a state of permanent food insecurity even though, by some accounts,…
The Traveller’s Guide to Beijing. Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Passport and, Oh Yeah, Plenty of Oxygen
The World Health Organization sets the safe level at 25. The U.S. EPA puts the emergency level at 300. For days Beijing has been at anywhere between 600 and 900.…
Colin Powell Tells GOP to Grow Up
Former state secretary and four-star general, Colin Powell, has told his own Republican party that it’s time for them to grow up, ditch their racist ways and start working for…