So Where’s Our Stealth Fighter
According to Wired.com’s “Danger Room” China has not one but two stealth fighters. It’s been almost two years since China revealed the Chengdu J-20 stealth warplane. Now rival Shenyang has…
The Mound of Sound
Who Do They Think They Are, the Vatican?
It’s going to be a tough two weeks for the Boy Scouts of America as details pour out of the organization’s decades of suppressing information about child molesters in their…
They Can’t Do It
In capitals around the world there’s been no shortage of bold talk about the need to tackle the global warming threat but that talk rarely translates into more than token…
Washington’s Climate Change Wrecking Ball
To the Third World, the United States stands out as the nation resolutely blocking “any hope of stopping run away climate catastrophe.” “By the end of the most recent round…
Just Four More Years
It wasn’t predicted to happen until the end of the century – well after we were long gone. Now it could arrive within just four more years. “It” is the…
Romney’s Russia Blunder Backfires Again
Another Russian leader has responded to Mitt Romney’s labeling of Moscow as America’s “Number One geopolitical foe.” Earlier in the week it was Vlad Putin using Romney’s slur to justify…
Putin’s New American BFF – Mitt Romney
Russian strongman Vlad Putin has a new pet American – Mitt Romney. Putin told Russian reporters he’s grateful to Romney for labeling Russia “America’s number one geopolitical foe.” “I’m grateful…
Harper Skulks Behind Cluster Bomb Ban
In 2008, countries around the world signed on to a global ban on cluster bomb munitions. Apparently the sheer humanity of it was too much for the Prince of Darkness…
Harper’s Weird War Fetish
Salaberry Leads Voltigeurs at Chateauguay What is with Steve Harper’s bizarre obsession with the War of 1812? Canada, at that point, was British territory, more than a half century away…
Canada’s Imperial Premiership
You don’t have to convince many British Columbians that Ottawa no longer functions as a democracy. Consent, in the twisted mind of Stephen Harper, is something that is extracted at…
Weaver Slams Harper – Again
It wasn’t a large protest rally, just 200 people in the crowd, but the message was loud and clear – Harper must stop gagging Canadian scientists. On hand at the…
"We’re In Uncharted Territory"
Europe could be plunged into a deep freeze again this winter, a condition linked to the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. The Jet Stream is moving north and it’s slowing,…
Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
It’s an old phrase, oft used but perhaps never more fittingly than to describe our war in Afghanistan where we succeeded so brilliantly in failure. We defeated ourselves. We defeated…
China’s Nuclear Hair Trigger
China is just one of several countries with arsenals of nuclear weapons. Yet, unlike the others, the unusual structure of China’s military forces may leave the country much more prone…
Farewell Peter Lougheed
Profound condolences to the family of Peter Lougheed and to the people of Alberta who have lost the man who served them so well as their finest premier. Mr. Lougheed…
Sit Down, Fool, and Shut Up
Mitt Romney claims its America’s “role” to lead the Middle East. “The world needs American leadership. The Middle East needs American leadership and I intend to be a president that…
Who Says Free Speech Extends to Agent Provocateurs?
An American film ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad is triggering anti-Western violence across the Middle East. That film was intended to achieve that very result. On what possible basis can it…
Russia’s Arctic "Nuclear Time Bomb"
K-27 She’s rusting away on the seabed barely 75 feet below the surface. The experimental Soviet nuclear submarine K-27 is a disaster waiting to happen in Russia’s Kara Sea that…
Weaver Slams Harper’s War on Science, on Canada, on the Canadian People
Leading Canadian climate scientist Andrew Weaver has laid into Stephen Harper in this morning’s Times Colonist. The U. Vic. prof accuses Harper of putting fossil fuel interests ahead of everything…
America’s Bought and Paid For Judges
A great way to water down democracy is to control the judiciary. This is what happens when you combine unrestricted corporate electoral spending with an elected bench. Judges whose election…