It’s Official – Obama Has No Spine
It's gone, surgically removed by specialists from the Republican congressional ranks. Now Obama has lost all chance of ever being able not to roll over on command.Elizabeth Warren is out.…
The Mound of Sound
Exposing the Real Risk of FrackGas
Actor Mark Ruffalo on Olbermann explains why frackgas is so insanely dangerous. "We don't have another 40 years."
Hacking for the Environment – Tar Sands in the Crosshairs
The international hacking group Anonymous has launched Operation Green Rights. Their first target was Monsanto, a company the group called "corrupt, unethical and downright evil." Anonymous claims to have given…
Exxon in Hot Water over Montana Pipeline
Exxon has been using a pipeline to transport Athabasca bitumen without notifying state officials who thought the line was only carrying conventional or "sweet" crude. The presence of bitumen was…
Seriously, Did He Really Say That?
Why does the new US Defense Secretary talk just like Donald Rumsfeld?DefSec Leon Panneta has been making the rounds in Baghdad, begging the Maliki government to ask American troops to…
Rupe, Thou Protesteth Too Much
There's one thing about ritual sacrifice. Do too much of it and you'll look scared, maybe even guilty of something. Rupe Murdoch has been shamelessly abusing the rite of sacrificial…
Another Murdoch Lieutenant Falls
The day began with the announcement that News International CEO Rebekah Moores had resigned. Now she's followed by her predecessor and Rupe Murdoch's handpicked publisher of The Wall Street Journal…
Karzai’s Assassin – The Afghan Conundrum in a Nutshell
The guy who gunned down the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai is almost a metaphor for what's never going to let us 'fix' Afghanistan.Two days ago, Ahmed Karzai was…
SAAB Sob
Venerable Swedish car maker, SAAB, is all but officially kaput. It's all about SAAB's suspensions. First it suspended payments to its suppliers. Then it suspended production. Now it's suspended paycheques…
Ahmadinejad May Be On Way Out
Al Jazeera is speculating that hothead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be about to resign. He has clashed with his country's real power, its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but…
Is the Tea Party America’s Khmer Rouge?
The struggles underway between Congressional GOP leaders and the White House over America's debt ceiling have an eerie, nihilistic air to them.Some attribute it to the struggles Republican House leader…
Typhoon Heading for Fukushima?
A major typhoon is barreling toward Japan. Typhoon Ma-on is expected to make landfall around noon Sunday. It's path, shown above, indicates it will hit Tokyo and, just past that…
Gulp. America’s F-35 Bill Just Skyrockets, Again
Okay, Now I Need To Know How to Flush This ThingAlready America's most-expensive ever military purchase, the F-35 project price tag just went up by three quarters of a billion…
British Columbians Support Carbon Taxes, What’s Holding Up the Rest of You?
A FINE IDEA, BUNGLED - THANKS JACK A solid majority of British Columbians surveyed by the Pembina Institute support their provincial government's carbon taxation. Here are some of the findings:"…
Connie Black Slams Rupe Murdoch
A big h/t to Matthew Steeples of London, apparently Knightsbridge, who brings us a glance behind the paywall of the Financial Times for a look at how the lordly Conrad…
Finally, A Good Rupert Murdoch Cartoon
From The Guardian's Steve Bell:Apparently Rupe has decided to duck this invitation. Not to be outdone, Hugh Grant staged this puppet show featuring Ol' Rupe, David Cameron and Nick Clegg:
The Endless Two-Faced War in Afghanistan Nose Dives
While myopic NewsyDupes like TorStar's Rosie DiManno and that guy whatshisname at NatPo fell over each other gushing that Canada's "mission" to Afghanistan settled the Taliban's hash in Kandahar, events…
Murdoch a No Show, Defies UK Parliament
Rupert Murdoch is plainly feeling the heat. He closed News of the World and dropped (for now) his bid to buy BSkyB cable but, despite previous assurances by News Corp…
Republicans Wage All-Out War On America’s Environment
America's dominant corporatist party, the Republicans, are moving to scrap, block or rollback federal environmental regulations of just about any sort. From McClatchey Newspapers:Republicans in the House of Representatives are…
You Can’t Argue With These Numbers
Stephen Harper may act as though climate change impacts can be ignored but the global insurance industry would tell him he's full of crap.An industry review of catastrophic loss claims…