The Disaffected Lib

I'm not sure this isn't merely a restatement of what has already become standard procedure but Vancouver police patrolling the city...

Joe "The Rat" Ratzinger, better known to the likes of you as Pope Benedict Ex-Vee-Eye, just keeps stepping in it and tracking cra...

Dramatic video today of an underwater volcano erupting just off the coast of Tonga. We're told there's one of these things building...

It's been a long, long time coming but finally an American administration has become serious about giving Afghanistan the army it needs....

The Washington Post reports that Obama has decided to send hundreds of US diplomats and civil staffers to Afghanistan as part of its new ci...

Don't buy the optimistic "end of recession" hype you're getting from Harper says former Bank of Canada governor David Dodg...

Brian Mulroney is looking for a 2-week adjournment of the public inquiry into his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber. Mulroney's lawyer c...

Pope Benny, aka Joe Ratzinger, is at it again. This time the Pope is in Africa where he opined that condoms contribute to the spread of AIDS...

The Conservative government has announced it will put up just over $21-million to assist in training Afghan police and corrections officers....

Our American cousins are getting annoying again. With another 17,000 troops en route to Afghanistan they'll soon have nearly a quarte...

The Republicans decriminalized them, bogus insurance policies called Credit Default Swaps. These scams now total more than the global GDP. ...

I'm no great fan of David Frum but some of his missives during the post-apocalyptic Repug era have been pretty good. Today Frum takes a ...

According to Stephen Harper, understanding the global meltdown is simple - it's all the fault of American consumers and American invest...

It's the same old story. A person holding the money of others in trust. A difficult moment arrives. The guy with the money decides ...

Pakistan is on the verge of yet another coup, one that seems a lot different than Islamabad's normal fare. For one thing, it's bei...

Nick Stern, the economist commissioned by the British government to evaluate the impact of global warming, has returned to castigate politic...

Britain's foreign ministry has decided the G-20 maybe should be reduced to the G-13 and other hangers-on like Canada. After Stephen Ha...

Guardian correspondent George Monbiot is at the cutting edge of global warming reportage. Below is his latest article, reproduced in its ...

Louise Arbour will be heading the International Crisis Group. From ICG's press release: The Co-Chairs of the Board of the Internationa...

This doesn't make any sense. NATO officials announced today that registration for the Afghan national elections is complete. According t...