Strauss-Khan Freed Without Bail
The socialist former head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Khan, appeared in a New York court this morning where he was released from house arrest and had his $6-million bail and…
The Mound of Sound
Climate Change Denialist Outed – (along with Exxon)
Willie Soon is a darling of the climate change denialist community. He's a very rare commodity indeed - a genuine scientist with peer-reviewed studies who stoutly disputes the entire theory…
Ex-IMF Head May Have Been Set Up
I detected a smell in the air when the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, was arrested for supposedly sexually assaulting a hotel chamber maid in New…
The Mess We’re In
One of the more common themes in my recent writing is that, when it comes down to the challenges confronting our country and our people, we cannot depend on our…
Let’s Build a Fire Under Layton and Rae
In the course of Western civilization we have a rich history of blundering into emergencies unprepared, a history that teaches us the consequences of neglect are often horrendous. In most…
Canada’s Venture Into America’s Corporate Militarism Cabal, the F-35
In an alternate universe, let's call it Planet Sane, eyes would roll, heads would shake and tongues would wag over how a bloated project, like Lockheed's F-35 joint strike fighter…
Did Harper Suppress DND’s Climate Change Warning?
A study prepared by Canada's Department of National Defence sounds the alarm on climate change. The report concludes that energy shortages coupled with the rapidly spreading freshwater crisis and compounded…
Even Canada’s Military Brass Get It – Finally!
We're on the war path, the actual road to war, and it's damned well time Messrs. Harper, Layton and Rae came to their senses.Canada's Department of National Defence has run…
China Tapped Out – Told to Import Food
Chinese groundwater reserves are in peril and the country must cut domestic food production.Zheng Chunmiao, director of the Water Research Centre at Peking University, said the world's most populous country…
America the Mad
That's it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy.Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder,…
More Rancid Rightwing Ideology
Florida nursing home operators must have a powerful lobby. State Republicans turned down federal grants to help remove patients from nursing homes and provide the same level of care to…
Who Knew? Apparently We Won in Afghanistan.
It was just weeks ago that Steve Harper declared Canada's mission to Afghanistan a "great success." Actually he couched it by saying we had to "consider" our military excursion a…
Sure It’s the Right Thing. But That Doesn’t Matter in Harperland.
Another international disgrace for Canada - thanks to Greasy Steve Harper.The Canadian delegation to a UN conference in Geneva agrees that chrysotile asbestos fully deserves to be labelled as "hazardous"…
What Are The Hackers After Next? Maybe Your Pacemaker.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who are kept alive by pacemakers, heart defibrilators, brain stimulators and implanted drug pumps that may be vulnerable to hacker attacks.The vulnerability comes…
Homeland Security Tests Mind Reading Sensors
According to the magazine Nature, the US Department of Homeland Security is conducting field trials of sensors they hope will be able to spot people thinking about committing terrorist acts.…
Will California Break the Fracking Veil of Secrecy?
With a little luck the world may soon discover just what natural gas frackers have actually been pumping underground, secrets they have fiercely guarded from public scrutiny.California's Environmental Quality Committee…
On Climate Change, Obama No Better Than Bush
To Al Gore, Barack Obama isn't up to the job of tackling climate change. In fact, Gore thinks Obama is no better than Big Oil's favourite pres, George w. Bush.Mr…
If Only They Had Told Us the Truth
Hmm. What if they had said this to us back in 2001, after 9/11?Okay folks, here's the deal. Al Qaeda just crashed jetliners into two office towers and the Pentagon.…
The "Century of Hunger"?
The wealthiest nations are poised to condemn the peoples of the rest of the world to a "Century of Hunger" unless they agree to new rules governing food supply. That…
This is "Eco-Friendly"?
The US Air Force, air demonstration team, The Thunderbirds, is going green, sort of. Last month the squadron introduced biofuel in the form of a 50-50 blend of conventional jet…