The Cost of Social Engineering
The economic ‘miracles’ sweeping emerging ecopower giants like India and China were always more apparent than real. In large part that happened because we were distracted by the bright, shiny…
The Mound of Sound
Why No Fighter Competition for Canada?
Critics for the F-35 routinely slam the Harper government for single-sourcing the choice for Canada’s next fighter aircraft. They argue there should have been an open competition to assess all…
Afghan Murder Spree Blame Lies on Capitol Hill
Following the recent killings of 16-Afghan civilians by a US Army sergeant, the critical details began rolling in. Married man, father of two. Ten year veteran. Three tours in Iraq,…
On Being Declared "Anti-Canadian"
So, when do they come for my passport? Those of us who support the environmental movement in Canada have been denounced as “anti-Canadian” by Conservative members of the Canadian Senate.…
Steve Harper’s Personal Freak Show – the Senate of Canada
Steve Harper has some curious thoughts. Not a lot of them, admittedly, and what there are tend to be astonishingly shallow and always just a bit quirky. That certainly comes…
Harper Cons – Sucked In Again by DND
A Con conned? Say it ain’t so. But it’s now emerging that those grifters at Canada’s Department of National Defence knew a couple of marks when they saw them and…
Kony 2012 Campaigner Nabbed for Public Masturbation
I’m sure it was for a good cause. One of the guys behind the controversial San Diego envango-charity, Invisible Children, has been detained by the cops for being naked and…
Harper Won’t Let BC Salmon Stand In His Way
With BC salmon stocks showing signs in recent years of serious troubles Steve Harper seems intent on making their plight much worse yet. If the name Enbridge comes to mind,…
Dud Subs, Dud Torpedoes
Those four second-hand subs the Defence Department duped the Canadian government into buying? 18-years after we got stuck with them, one of them, HMCS Victoria, actually managed to fire a…
Let’s Not Throw in The Towel on Canada’s North
And by “throw in the towel” I’m referring to the F-35 possibly-stealthy fighter bomb truck. We’re finally seeing through the malarkey that Harper, MacKay and that dumb-assed ex-cop have been…
But What of the Balochs?
The New York Times recently ran an article questioning why the West was so concerned about the plight of the Palestinians yet cared not a whit about the suffering of…
The Cost of Austerity
Austerity, while popular with rightwing pols, can wreak havoc on a society. Greece today is austerity’s punching bag. Austerity inevitably translates into cutbacks in services, even essential services. In Greece…
If You Thought This War Was Futile Before
It’s safe to assume we, the West, are in the final phase of our hapless war in Afghanistan. We have made a real difference over the past decade. Unfortunately the…
Water Wars
We goofed, big time. When Europeans settled in North America they believed it was “what you see is what you get.” As they planned for growth and expansion they didn’t…
Is Florida Finis?
It’s going to be a tough century for places like the state of Florida. For all its many challenges, the greatest one facing this retirement Mecca is climate change. Low-lying…
Think Twice About Central America
So much for my plans of a once-in-a-lifetime motorcycle trip from Panama to Vancouver Island. That route, it seems, has become Murder Alley. While we’re all becoming aware of violent…
Another Tar Sands Fantasy Challenged
To hear Big Oil and its political minions tell it, the Athabasca Tar Sands will be restored to their pristine state once the black sludge is finally gone. This stands…
Republicans Driving Votes to Obama
Women, check. The young, check. Minorities, check. Moderate conservatives, check. Liberals, check. The poor, check. The soon to be poor, check. The Republicans, it seems, have done a dandy job…
US Soldier Goes Postal – Guns Down 16 Afghans
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is accusing a US serviceman of gunning down 16-people including 9-children and 3-women. Another 5 Afghans were said to have been wounded. A report in The…