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.…
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.…
Actor Mark Ruffalo on Olbermann explains why frackgas is so insanely dangerous. "We don't have another 40 years."
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:"…
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…
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:
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…
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…
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…
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…