Revisiting Posterity
In a post yesterday I drew upon the words of the patron saint of conservatism, Edmund Burke, and the powerful progressive voice of Theodore Roosevelt in 1910. Without expressly using…
The Mound of Sound
"Wag the Dog" Time? Is America Planning to Send Troops Into Venezuela?
A gaggle of Trump aides showed up for a rare White House press conference Monday. Among them was John Bolton, note pad in hand. Bolton caused a stir when cameras…
The Grifter-in-Chief Does It Again.
US Treasury Secretary, Sideshow-Steve Mnuchin is again looking to borrow a trillion dollars to cover government deficit and Trump’s latest tax cuts. Axios sums it up: Treasury borrowing surpassed $1…
First, We Throw Out the Monsters
It was hard not to be impressed when a 16-year old Swedish school girl, Greta Thunberg showed up to read the Riot Act to the delegates at, first, the Katowice…
And They Wonder Why Trump Skipped Dinner?
Washington’s elite Alfalfa Club annual dinner was held tonight. Trump shuns the event but attendees were surprised when Pence and his wife along with Jared and Ivanka failed to take…
McCallum Axed
Canada’s ambassador to China, John McCallum, is out. Justin Trudeau asked for and received McCallum’s resignation last night. The Liberal stalwart succumbed to a bout of foot in mouth disease…
Will This Be the Final Nail in Trump’s Coffin?
Donald Trump rode one signature phrase straight into the White House – “Make America Great Again.” The TV show hustler convinced the Gullibillies, his base, that he was an unparalleled…
Can We Not Stop Ourselves?
It’s called AGW or anthropogenic global warming. It’s warming that is anthropogenic, i.e. man-made, and it’s global, just as humans now populate just about every corner of the Earth. Nobody…
Memo to the Oil-Heads
The Petro-Pimps of Parliament Hill, pose as stewards of the environment but they sure like to tell a lot of lies. Trudeau says he’s fighting climate change but then sweeps…
Focus on the Barents, Pt. 2
Yesterday it was reported that global warming is transforming the Barents Sea from an Arctic sea into an Atlantic sea. Now a paper published by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment…
Yes, Roger, It’s "Politically Motivated"
After making bail, longtime Trump confidante, Roger Stone, dismissed the charges against him as “politically motivated.” Hard to argue with that. The crimes for which he now stands charged were…
The Next Front in the New Cold War? Canada’s Back Yard.
Vlad Putin is shrewd when it comes to exploiting weakness or carelessness in others. When he looks to the Arctic, that’s exactly what he sees. The climate crisis is intensifying…
The Barents Flipping Point
It’s not so much a tipping point as a flipping point. The Barents Sea, a component of the Arctic Ocean much like the Beaufort Sea or the Chukchi Sea, is…
Be Careful What You Wish For, Rachel
With an election looming and Jason Kenney breathing down her neck, Rachel Notley is spending millions of dollars, 23 million, her government doesn’t have to demonize British Columbia as the…
The Meritocracy Myth
A new report from the London School of Economics shows how the Right has fostered the myth of meritocracy to render the have-nots complacent to inequality. The report, “Divided societies…
Michael Harris Surfaces – in The Tyee
He’s one of Canada’s best progressive pundits and, after a long run at iPolitics, he seemed to disappear. Only he didn’t. Michael Harris is back. In The Tyee he writes…
Rule # 1
The first rule – don’t entrust the vulnerable and helpless to the unsupervised care of guys who look like this: He’s practical nurse, Nathan Sutherland, now under arrest for raping…
Witness Tampering, Mr. Trump?
Michael Cohen has postponed his scheduled appearance to testify before Congress. The reason? His attorney, Lanny Davis, puts it down to “ongoing threats against his family from President Trump.” That…
Nothing Makes a Petro-State Cringe More Than the Truth
Canada is a petro-state. The US is a petro-state. So too are Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Iraq and many of the Gulf States. If there’s one thing the petro-states can’t…
It Might Matter, To a Democracy
Inside Climate News reports on a new survey showing that Americans are coming to understand that climate change is real and that it’s here now. The article goes on to…