Scotland Yard claims Murdoch's News International is undermining the investigation into police corruption by Murdoch's own journalists.NI has orchestrated a "deliberate campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged payments by…
There is no way around this sort of completely turning our backs on it. Climate change is consuming lives and it's becoming voracious. At the moment, Somalia is taking a…
The Republican clown car just never runs out of gas. The latest RepubliJester is Scientology-backed Riverside County supervisor and lawn cutter Jeff Stone who wants southern California to secede from…
Is there anything, anything at all too low for a Republican? It sure doesn't sound like it.The latest Christofascist Republican gambit requires presidential nomination candidates, like brainstorm Michelle Bachmann, to…
Until now, the EuroUnion states teetering on insolvency were sometimes referred to as PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. Now it appears that Italy, the EU's third largest economy, may…
Those Japanese are just so damned smart!Taking a page out of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, Japanese authorities have decided that other reactors must pass a tsunami test before reopening.…
This is what the Corrupter Incarnate looks like and it's not pretty. Anything he touches, including the Wall Street Journal, turns to slime. Anything he creates, like FOX News, is…
"We have more visibility perhaps on what we can see coming our way than you guys can, and look I can only, I'm tied because of the criminal investigation in…
Did Canadian soldiers win in Afghanistan? No. Did Canadian soldiers lose in Afghanistan? No. How can you lose something you were never sent to win? Our military mission to Kandahar…
How's that solar farm coming? How are you doing with mothballing those coal plants? 2015 is just four years away after all. How are you in the East doing about…
Scaly Aussie media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is shutting down his London rag, News of the World. In what is seen as a desperate bid to protect his News Corporation empire…
The bastion of today's far right is unquestionably the United States. Neo-conservatism has insinuated itself into every aspect of the American corporate state and has entrenched itself in American society.…
Climate models, those vast computer simulations, seem to prompt inevitable criticism from climate change skeptics and the fossil fuel industry and its paid political pals. It's easy to attack these…
Britain's climate secretary, Chris Huhne, will deliver a blunt message in his next meeting with his country's defence experts - climate change could reverse the advances in democracy and prosperity…
Oh, great! Another report on how science is on the brink of delivering human immortality. If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see…
There are signs that 9/11 fever may have run its course with our southern cousins. A '4th of July' poll conducted by Time Magazine and the Aspen Institute reportedly concludes…
‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing.’There has been no shortage of supposedly progressive bloggers who were more than ready to assume Dominique…
It's so much more than just Fukushima.America may have dodged a couple of nuke bullets recently. Wildfires still blaze around the nuke weapons lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico where…
This past week we were treated to punchdrunk praises of our success in Afghanistan by NewsyDupe scribes from NatPo and TorStar's own Rosie DiManno. According to them we had the…
You can't say we haven't been warned - again and again and again. Forces of instability are setting in around the world. You name it. Everything from deforestation; desertification; air/land/water…
