Arms Race Update – More Subs for India
From South Asia to Southeast Asia to China and Australia, suddenly everybody has a thing for submarines, loads of them. It’s Christmas for sub-builders. Today it’s India announcing plans to…
The Mound of Sound
Peter Kent Sings Harper’s Praises in Doha
Peter Kent never lets reality get in the way of his message, especially when he’s singing the praises of his boss Harper. Kent, showing the nerve of a canal donkey,…
George Monbiot – Time to Ditch Our Malignant Politics
Guardian enviro-scribe George Monbiot writes that the road to saving the world has to be paved with the shattered remnants of today’s corporatism. We must dismember corporatism and the plutocracy…
Steve, Are You Listening? Tom? Justin?
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has said it about as succinctly as possible: “The climate change phenomenon has been caused by the industrialisation of the developed world. It’s only…
A Christmas Gift for Dad? Glenfiddich, Maybe?
Scotch whiskey distiller, William Grant & Sons, has suddenly become a burr under Donald Trump’s saddle. For many years the distiller has hosted a “Top Scot” competition. It’s open to…
Arms Race Update – Indian Navy to South China Sea
India has served notice that its navy is ready to sail into the South China Sea to protect the country’s oil interests there. Indian Navy Chief Admiral D.K Joshi said…
Chomsky on Israel – A Worthwhile Read
An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father,…
Why Spend a Fortune for a "Troubled" Anything?
In news reports it's common to see the adjective "troubled" used in conjunction with F-35. It may, by common usage, become that warplane's new name - the "troubled F-35."The F-35…
40-Years of Peace Tossed in the Garbage
Apparently forty years of peace has been too much of a good thing for Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has enjoyed peace with its Arab neighbours since 1973.Don’t blame yourself if you…
New URLs
The Disaffected Lib can now be accessed at two new sites - www.thedisaffectedlib.com or www.disaffectedlib.com. Don't ask me why, my kids did this. Well, they're not really kids any more…
Canada ‘Worst Developed Nation" on Climate Change
We're Number Last, We're Number Last.Canada, our very home and native land, has won last place as the worst developed nation when it comes to climate change. Dead last, that's…
"All Options Are On the Table" Making Israel Pay
Decades of experience shows that Western rebukes of Israel are like so much water on a duck's back. Israel simply ignores them, mutters the usual garbage about self-defence, and continues…
Maybe Europe Needs a Rooseveltian Response
For all of its other problems, there's one the European countries have to deal with and soon, youth unemployment. They even have a term for them, "Neets" (not in education,…
Try to Wrap Your Mind Around This
Imagine 2.4-million pounds of something, anything. Now imagine 2.4-million pounds of that something each and every second, 60 times a minute, 36-hundred times every hour; 604,800 times every week. That's…
Germany Shines a Light on the Harp of Darkness
When it came right down to it, Germany balked at voting "no" on Palestinian recognition in the UN General Assembly and, instead, merely abstained. Netanyahu was not amused.What transpired between…
Can’;t We Turn This Into a Drinking Game of Some Sort?
Holy Crap, we've only got 18-shopping days left until the End of Earth. I haven't even drawn up a shopping list. How did this slip my mind? And why did…
Whether You Excavate It or Pump It or Frack It Out of the Ground, It’s All Fossil Fuel
We get all sorts of stuff out of the ground and it's all lethal, every BTU of it. Some of it, for example natural gas, is less lethal. Some of…
World Outrage at Israel’s Destruction of Palestinian Homeland. Harper, Naturally, Mute.
Two Rotten Peas in a PodEven the United States is condemning Israeli perfidy in retaliating against the Palestinians by stealing more of their land, enough to sever the West Bank…
It’s Too Late to Whine Now
One day after leading the charge to block the UN General Assembly from granting upgraded recognition to the Palestinian Authority, the United States is supposedly condemning Israel for retaliating by…