Steve Harper knows how to weasel out of commitments. Remember how we were in Afghanistan “to stay” until we had the Taliban crushed and the country safe for democracy? Harper…
Want a good idea of what’s happening in our world? Two views of the same spot in Shanghai, one as it was in 1990, the other as it was just…
Bill Moyers points a finger Bill Moyers Essay: Who Shipwrecked Our Economy? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
What happens when you have a newspaper mired in scandal, several of its key personnel arrested, and a gaggle of unruly journalists suspicious that you’re about to throw them to…
Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina is proposing that Central America become a zone where drugs are legal to make, possess and transport. Mr Perez Molina will test the waters by…
20-years ago off the Aleutians a cargo ship lost some containers in a heavy storm. Among that cargo were nearly 30,000 bath toys. Since then some of these toys have…
Soggy old Britain is facing the prospect of mega-drought. Even at the height of winter, aquifers are being used to keep English rivers and lakes from running dry. Andrew Chapman,…
Oh there’s a hoax all right, a well-funded, carefully scripted hoax that’s being played out by the denialist community and its backers, the fossil fuelers. And, as the pieces continue…
When Harper was in Davos he was practically busting to tell the high priced nobs that he was going to trim Canada’s sails, especially our nation’s Old Age Security programme.…
Okay, now it all makes sense. According to PostMedia’s howler, Matthew Fisher, Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canada against the creeping Red Menace, China: Despite its staggering cost, the…
Steve Harper likes to boast how Canada and our NATO allies saved Libya by bombing the hell out of Gaddafi’s forces. It sounds nice but it’s hogwash. As the United…
The Afghans have figured out a way to produce a history textbook that everyone can accept. Make sure it stops at 1973. Afghanistan’s newly approved history textbook is free of…
Michael Ignatieff referred to it as the “beating heart of the Canadian economy in the 21st century.” Prime ministers, Liberal and Conservative alike, have dared to dream of Canada as…
Ever wonder why Big Oil doesn’t take its massive profits and take over the alternative (“clean”) energy business? Why do the fossil fuelers make such an expensive and concerted effort…
What you’re looking at appeared in full page format in the Sydney Morning Herald. It was published in reaction to a call by whacko global warming denier Lord Monckton for…
It May be Overpriced Crap But We’re Good with It. The man now in charge of the Pentagon’s weapons purchases has lambasted the F-35 programme, denouncing it as “acquisition malpractice.”…
If you watched the Super Bowl, not that there’s really something wrong with you if you didn’t, you might have enjoyed the half time show. Madonna staged an elaborate presentation…
What goes up must come down. Who knew that might be the epitaph of America’s once mighty Middle Class? Robert Reich sees through the latest unemployment numbers. They may look…
One feature of climate change is the erratic arrival of weather extremes. Australia, for example, is enduring its second year of massive flooding following many years of extreme drought. Meanwhile,…
