The Senate Scandal and Stephen Harper’s Good Buddy
She's one of Stephen Harper's closest and longest associates, and one of the few people on Parliament Hill who can walk into his office ANYTIME she wants. And now Senator…
Edward Snowden tribute mural in Manchester by artist Sarah Lynn Mayhew
In a tribute to NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, Manchester-based artist, Sarah Lynn Mayhew, has created a mural entitled “Truth is Coming and it Cannot be Stopped.” The artwork appears on…
America’s Southwest Faces Imminent Water Woes
It supports 40-million people and four million acres of farmland production. It’s the Colorado River and it’s drying up. Next year the desert states of Nevada and Arizona could see…
What America’s Rightwing Media are On About This Morning
Hint: it isn’t the shutdown of the federal government. The New Republic takes a look at the curious behaviour of America’s rightwing media the day after the night before: …the…
IKEA to Sell Residential Solar Panel Systems
It’s starting in Britain but IKEA has plans to bring renewable, solar energy to the public worldwide. The company started selling solar panels made by China’s Hanergy in its store…
Monbiot – It’s Time for Scientists to Go Rogue
Britain, Australia and Canada have been singled out in a Guardian op-ed for “crushing academic integrity on behalf of corporate power.“ Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, contends that scientists have a…
Canadian Blogger Ben Klass on Big Telecom’s misleading PR campaign and the need for authentic choice
Canadian blogger Ben Klass talks about the elephant in the room – and no matter how hard Big Telecom executives push out expensive, misleading PR spin to convince us otherwise,…
Thanks For Your Service, Now Get Back In Your Cardboard Box
Canadian veterans’ ombudsman, Guy Parent, says seriously wounded Canadian servicemen are being left to face a life of poverty. “We’re saying it’s an urgent need,” Parent said. “I’m urging the…
Australia Feels the Heat
Australians may have elected a climate change denier, Tony Abbott, as their prime minister but that’s not going to make their climate change problems go away. The Hong Kong and…
A Court Down Under Deals with Climate Change Migration
A New Zealand court will hear a refugee-status claim from a Kiribati man who contends he had to flee not persecution but climate change. Kiribati is a low-lying atoll in…
Water Wars – Coming Soon to The Middle East?
It’s the perfect storm of three factors – scarce groundwater resources, climate change-driven droughts and massive population growth. Put them all together and security analyst Russell Sticklor, writing in the…
An October Update from Brian’s Campaign
Have you been wondering what’s happening on Brian G. Rice’s campaign lately? I thought I’d share this update with you – please feel free to share it with your friends!…
Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday October 1, 2013
Here are your daily news links: I’ll be doing a long-planned “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit today at 1 pm ET (@ggreenwald) Income levels and the high price of telecom…
Hedges’ Quest to Find the Triggers of Revolt
It should come as no surprise that Chris Hedges openly and strongly advocates for outright revolt. He believes that laissez-faire capitalism has run its course, leaving blue and white collar…
Obey law, minister tells New Brunswick fracking protesters
Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) HALIFAX – New Brunswick’s minister of energy is urging people participating in a demonstration against exploration for shale gas fracking to obey…
Harper’s empty boast on job creation
Harper brags his government created 750,000 jobs. But an analysis from the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab shows this focus on total employment is misplaced. Employment rate Most of the…
Oct. 1: What the…..?
The American government has shut down for lack of money – with implications we can only guess at.. Canada’s John Baird gives very strange speech at the UN. An expensive…
The Teaparty Shutdown Of Government Isn’t ‘Crazy’ … It Is An Intentional And Strategic Crippling Of ‘Government’
“If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, stop saying you want a country based on Christian values. You don’t!” President Jimmy Carter The following article is…
Status update
Leaving Newark airport by train to NYC. We have not lost a kid yet. But the day is still young.