The Disaffected Lib

The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in.  We're coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor...

Federal FinMin Tiny Jim Flaherty seems to be breaking ranks with his American and European cousins and says that the federal government woul...

Even the Wall Street Journal is starting to toss around the idea that Marx might have been right - capitalism will destroy itself.  Economi...

British Conservative prime minister David Cameron made himself judge, jury and Lord High Executioner this week when he pronounced that anyon...

It's like a geo-political take on one of those slasher movies in a haunted house.  Danger lurks behind every door. The haunted house i...

To Conservative Brit prime minister, David Cameron, the masses of youth who took to Britain's streets this week for four consecutive nig...

Non-believers are really nice people.   In fact, studies are finding that secularists are often better educated, more tolerant and more kno...

How did it all get so scary that it became painful even to write about it?   How did it all go so wrong? We're confronted by a bucketf...

Lately there has been a spate of reports about the rich flocking to high end shops and indulging in the sort of luxuries reminiscent of the ...

It's not just moderates and progressives in the United States who are losing faith in Barack Obama.  So are the Europeans.  Spiegel Onli...

In the wake of two terrorist bombings in Xinjiang province, China wants to hunt down Uyghur militants it claims are being trained in Pakist...

England has sustained its third night of widespread rioting and looting.   What began as an isolated uprising over a police shooting in Tott...

Last year a powerful heat wave triggered massive forest fires in Russia and led to the failure of Russia's wheat crop.   So far this yea...

Oh those crazy foaming fundamentalist rightwingers and their homophobia. On Sunday, Bachmann and her curious husband, attended a church se...

Globalization has always been a scam.   It has always been a trade of something very valuable for a vague and quite unenforceable promise of...

Modern, consumer economies are essentially a confidence game.   When confidence is high, money flows; goods are produced, sold and bought; a...

It's crunch time for America.   China is getting tired of picking up America's bar tab and has put the US on notice that the days of...

America's biggest creditor isn't amused by that country's newly downgraded, AA+ rating.  Now China says the "good old days...

We have to choose - will it be the survival of mankind or will it be whatever wealth we can extract from the Athabasca Tar Sands?  It seems ...

Bush Greeting ALEC, 2007 State legislators from every corner of America are flocking to New Orleans today, summoned to the Big Easy by A...