The Disaffected Lib

The World Bank is fingering Bombardier for bribery to win a $339 (US) railway contract with Azerbaijan.  The project was 85 per cent ...

The Leave campaign had its thumb on the scales in the Brexit referendum. Through various devices it was a rigged outcome. Now the nati...

It's not unfair to say that, when the Trudeau government talks about balancing resource development and the environment you can expec...

I watched Lawrence O'Donnell interview a father whose 15-year old daughter was at the Parkdale, Florida high school where 17 people,...

Remember when North America was called the New World? Well, in some ways, it's rather old, very old. The United States boasts of bein...

The sad fact that America's Congress is "bought and paid for" is well known. America has long lost any notion of "gover...

The menacing face of Congressional corruption is being exposed in the Republican's tax reform bill. They can't hide it any longe...

Where Alberta Fossil Fuelers Go to Shop Yes, Christy, this is about you - and the rest. Christy Clark, Canada's   Queen of Cash ...

We've got an election campaign underway out here on the Left Coast and John Horgan's New Democrats are in hot pursuit of Christy Cl...

There's always been a seedy undercurrent to New Orleans - everything from street hustlers to corrupt politicians.  It's part of ...

There's no trace of hyperbole in denouncing Stephen Harper as the Great Corrupter.  He is corrupt and he corrupts whatever he touche...

Of the many dark farces of the Harper government, the best one is that there'll be a full and fair environmental assessment of the No...

Mitt Romney wouldn't be the first really rich man to enter the White House.   But, as Robert Reich points out , he'd certainly be...

Douglas Channel Steve Harper's environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline proposal is an utter sham.   Steve...

Sometimes you know it but you still have to see it to believe it.  That's where the Center for Public Integrity comes in.   It has publi...

According to Transparency International , Canada is right up there with the northern European welfare states when it comes to corruption.   ...

Transparency International reports that 18 of 34 OECD countries get failing grades on enforcement of the Organisation for Economic Cooperati...

Is this what Canadian soldiers are dying to save? The Guardian reports that an Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death for insulting ...

I've written at length as to why we're not going to win in Afghanistan but sometimes it's good to hear from an expert. Michael S...