When Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney coaxed us to board the neoliberal train, very few of us realized it would carry us to authoritarianism, inequality and perhaps even fascism. Yet as…
The White House picked their moment, Friday afternoon of the Thanksgiving Day weekend, to release their own government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The Trump White House wanted the report buried,…
You’ve probably seen how the mob will takeover a small but profitable business, bleed it dry and then split, leaving the empty, ruined hulk a dead loss for out-of-pocket creditors.…
Our cousins across the pond, a.k.a. “the Brits”, are planning for climate change. Not 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius but 4 degrees Celsius of warming and what that would…
The oil and gas provinces of Canada – Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. and Newfoundland (okay, okay, “and Labrador”) – are places where politicians dream of easy money. All they need do…
The big surprise in the US government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment is that there are no surprises. Sure the outlook is dire. Bad things are happening to America and much…
Whether the disciples of perpetual exponential growth like it or not, we’re fast heading for a day of reckoning on the global economy. In theory, at least, mankind should be…
Former Trump campaign advisor turned jailbird, George Papadopoulos now contends he was set up by Australia and the UK in a plot to swing the 2016 presidential election to Hillary…
Reading, in these times, can be a dismal, evena torturous task. At any given time I’m likely to have six, eight or even more books on the go. Some I…
Records aplenty are being broken. Unfortunately they’re for atmospheric concentrations of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide. The World Meteorological Organization reports there’s no sign of a reversal of this trend…
There are two faces to the climate change issue. One is science. The other is politics. Rarely does the second comport with the first, especially on the thorny problem of…
Even out here on the Pacific it’s not hard to hear the squeals emanating from Athabasca and the Calgary Petroleum Club. The Tar Sands are in trouble. Actually the Tar…
I make an effort to try to keep up with the river of research papers and studies on climate change that now pour in with increasing frequency. Sometimes I have…
Everyone from psychiatrists to cab drivers have analyzed the Great American Bloat, Donald Trump. It’s a pastime now so shopworn as to become dispiriting. Yet The Week’s Windsor Mann has…
The Saudis have worked overtime to try to insulate Mohammad bin Sultan, their Crown Prince, from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. It doesn’t…
Oh to see ourselves as others see us. Don’t we work hard to make sure that never happens? How does 5 degrees Celsius hit you? A study published today claims…
Okay, they’re not really whales. They’re a large species of dolphin but the Orca, a.k.a. Killer Whales, are one of the most majestic creatures here on the wet coast. Unfortunately,…
It’s perceptible, even palpable. Donald Trump is showing the strain of the mid-term elections. He’s looking worn and acting like an angry child. This, from the Los Angeles Times: For…
I like to think George Monbiot had Justin Trudeau in mind when he wrote: Those to whom we look for solutions trundle on as if nothing has changed. As if…
The signs are inescapable. They still take many of us by surprise. A lot of us can’t or desperately seek to avoid having to connect the dots but that does…
