Alberta’s premier, Alison Redford, complains that public policy is shaping Canada’s energy future. Well Alison, so what? What’s so damned toxic special about Alberta bitumen that it should be exempt…
Did Goldman Sachs play a key role in Europe’s fiscal meltdown and are Goldman Sachs alumni now moving into top positions in the most unstable Euro nations? Apparently so. This…
The UN recently issued a report warning of the effects of global warming on the world’s major river systems. Increased evaporation, drought and irregular rainfalls are expected to leave water…
It seems our European cousins are coming to grips with the utter madness of the past. Along the Atlantic coast and in the Baltic sea thousands of tonnes of chemical…
Canada may be a Pacific Rim country just not, perhaps, to our corporate news media. There’s a lot happening in the South-Asia/East Asia arc involving China, India, the United States…
There’s a warrant out for Oscar Romero Ortega, suspected of firing a couple of shots at the White House Friday evening. According to BBC News there is evidence one round…
Look, It’s a Turkey – Sitting in Front of a Turkey The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35’d. Every couple of weeks I Google…
Steve Harper said he'd put Canada on the map and he has, in spades. Harper has drawn plenty of world attention to Canada. Regrettably, it's uniformly bad.The Guardian has chronicled…
From Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning""When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima…
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." Broadfoot used the same technique as…
That's right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in New Scientist claims it was an Atmospheric…
Meet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their "Birmingham moment." It's a rambling commentary…
Bette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w.…
It's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style."Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National…
According to Salon's David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its…
It's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran"…
We have no defensible choice but to end the development of the Athabasca Tar Sands.The 'best case scenario' International Energy Agency analysis released a few days ago warns we're on…
That seems to be the attitude of the world's political leaders today in the face of warnings that our civilization's last best opportunity to avert devastating climate change is slipping…
By "guys" I'm referring to the 'day late, dollar short' Liberals who seem intent on taking a well-deserved dirt nap.It's a warning. From the International Energy Agency. It couldn't be…
