The Monster Shows His Black Heart
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic on trial for genocide in the murder of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims as well as the 10,000 who were killed in the seige of…
The Mound of Sound
Beijing As The Sopranos?
It sounds like a scene straight out of a gangster movie. A new gang looks to take over a rival’s territory. Thugs show up at a store and tell the…
Why Do We Live in Denial?
When was the last time you heard a world leader so much as acknowledge that, as a species, man is consuming renewable resources 50% faster than Earth can replenish them?…
Fixin’ to Execute Steve Staley
As though sane people are short of reasons to decry capital punishment. Steve Staley may be the new poster boy for state barbarism. Stanley is on Death Row in Texas…
Accepting Failure in Afghanistan
We went in full of self-righteous anger, the images of jetliners flying into office towers burned into our brains. The idea was to eradicate al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban government…
Let’em Eat Cake
When the going gets tough, the tough tell the weak to “shove off.” Apparently overlooking the fact that Britain is officially in a double-dip recession and wracked with unemployment, the…
Shouldn’t the RCMP Mind Its Own, Long-Neglected Business?
I have found it puzzling that the Commissioner of the RCMP, the federal top cop, is writing letters to provincial chief firearms officers (CFOs) warning them not to start setting…
The Only Good Muslim Is a Dead Muslim. Did We Just Say That to the Muslim World?
I’m afraid that’s just what we did tell the Muslim world with the exposure of a course taught at America’s own Joint Forces Staff College that suggested the only way…
Now That It’s Out in The Open, Pentagon’s Not So Keen On "War on Muslims"
The Pentagon has launched an investigation into why its Joint Forces Staff College has been teaching a course advocating tomorrow’s generals prepare to inflict genocide on the Muslim world. Sound…
Tar Sands – The Great Canadian Giveaway
When Tar Sands sludge leaves Canada so does most of the wealth associated with it. Most of the Tar Sands is foreign owned, most of the revenue goes straight into…
Hey Vic, Be Sure to Tell Steve. He Thinks You’re An Idiot Too.
“I am prepared to consider all legislative and regulatory measures necessary to give effect to the will of Canadians.” That pearl of wisdom and efficacy from the Minister of farcical…
As Though We Need Another Reason to Ditch the F-35
Listen up, this is serious. The American Warfare State, the very one that any country buying the F-35 is signing on to serve, has achieved a degree of madness that…
Mitt Romney – Bully? Hell Yes! Homophobe? Maybe, Maybe Not.
Mitt Romney admits bullying a classmate but swears he never thought the guy was a homo. There’s plenty of rich character detail in Jason Horowitz’s profile of Mitt Romney, prep…
Oooh, This Could Get Nasty
China has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country’s first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea. The rig, CNOOC 981, began drilling operations…
Switzerland, My Sincere Condolences
The Swiss have a new countryman, er countrywoman. She’s Michelle Bachmann who, thanks to her marriage to flamboyant, gay-curing psychologist, Marcus Bachmann is entitled to claim Swiss citizenship. The kids…
Cornering Rupe With His Own Words
Poor Rupert Murdoch, will his demons never go away? Unfortunately, for him, no because the demons plaguing him at the moment poured out of his own mouth at the Leveson…
The Big Three – Global Dilemmas Pegged By Science
The Athabasca Tar Sands controversy is about three key things – energy, carbon emissions and water usage and contamination. Oddly enough those three are the very “global dilemmas” identified as…
Harper, You Punk, Man Up!
Those goddamned self-righteous Tories like nothing better than to preach responsibility except when they get a chance to dodge it themselves. And, when a chance does arise, they’ll use their…
Do You Really Need to Ask?
The question is why a CIA officer, Jose Rodriguez, mechanically shredded 92-hours worth of video of captives being waterboarded. “It’s not a pretty sight when you are waterboarding anybody or…
About That Balmy Winter Weather – Part Deux
Most of Canada had a delightfully warm winter and enjoyed an early spring. Now the bill has come due. In Ontario, farms face the loss of millions of dollars worth…