The Disaffected Lib

The liberated one? She'd be the one in blue. Our leaders can't help themselves. Every time they want to jumpstart enthusiasm for t...

Russia seems to be getting in everybody's face these days. Yesterday came the release of classified documents showing that the US and Br...

Recently the US adjusted its troop deployment in Iraq to bring more forces in to quell violence in Baghdad. We were told that Baghdad was th...

Moscow has decided to stir things up before next week's NATO summit in Riga. Russia has released declassified documents showing that the...

As recently as a year ago, American politicians and military types liked to say of Iraq that it was "still winnable." It's n...

According to a report in the Financial Times, arms will be twisted - hard - at next week's NATO summit in Riga to get the 16-member stat...

Nicaraguan president-elect Daniel Ortega says he wants to work for a unified Central America. In a speech given in Guatemala City, Ortega ...

I know how that sounds, but that's the story coming from the venerable BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6169006.stm

This is how fundamentalists saw liberals a century ago. Nice to know that some things just don't change.

A. What do America's religious right, the Christian fundamentalists, and their Islamic fundamentalist counterparts have in common? B. Wh...

Okay, so invading Iraq hasn't been all that great an idea for the U.S. On the other hand, it was a pretty good deal for al-Qaeda (see ne...

Last Friday I posted a story about an al-Qaeda double agent who spied for the British and the French governments. This fellow, in an inter...

There was less than met the eye to Stephen Harper's bravado with Chinese President Hu over the Celil case, a lot less. Dad McTeague sets...

President Bush hasn't had a good time of it lately but, after the last two days, he must be wondering what's next? First his daught...

For months I've argued that democracy has no natural home in either Afghanistan or Iraq; that we can't simply impose something we ou...

Remember back to what seems so very long ago. Go all the way back to September, 2001. Remember when THIS is what we all wanted?

The Harper government is big on law and order, real big. It regularly tells us about how we need to reinforce the deterrence factor of our...

Stephen Harper can periodically show tactical brilliance. Seizing the moment to promote acknowledgement of Quebec nationhood was one examp...

Little Stevie could hardly wait to puff up his chest and let us in on how he gave Chinese President Hu a piece of his mind, a tongue-lashing...

Rona Ambrose was a national humiliation in her performance before the world in Nairobi. Here's an interesting take on Rona from the onl...