The Disaffected Lib

In 2011, globalization depressed wages for non-college educated American workers 5.5% , or roughly $1,800 per annum.   That's bad but it...

The media is swamped with articles about the 10th anniversary of the Anglo-American conquest of Iraq.   To those of us in the "I Tol...

Nobel laureate economist, Joe Stiglitz, has an op-ed piece in today's New York Times in which he looks at how Singapore's efforts t...

Harper, to the extent he thinks at all, thinks regular inspection of bitumen supertankers and a bit more aerial surveillance should put...

The Harper government, or someone on its behalf, will show up in Vancouver today to announce that Ottawa has heard our concerns and has pr...

In the thug gallery that passes for a federal government today this shouldn't surprise anyone, least of all parliamentary budget o...

The Cypriot people are discovering how austerity politics plays out these days.   Like the Irish people before them, and the American pub...

Kids, don't try this at home.

The source of wind-turbine illness has been tracked down.   The source is anti-wind farm campaigners who make people think those windmill...

When the photos began coming in of Sarah Palin's appearance at this year's CPAC conference, something seemed amiss. Sure five...

Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.   That is all you need to accept to realize that our growth-based economics are invalid...

For the first time since its founding in 1947, Pakistan has seen a civilian government complete a full term in office . Since Pakistan was...

One of Shanghai's main sources of drinking water, the Huang Pu river, has had thousand of dead pigs removed from its waters.  Recent r...

By the time you're in your 60s you've developed a sense of a certain cadence to life, something like a master Circadien rhythm th...

It was 1968.  Richard Nixon was squaring off against the Democrat chosen to succeed Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey. Johnson, meanwhile, h...

You might as well write off the grandkids right now because every day our political leadership is telling you that they already have. That...

Sure, we all want rid of the Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub himself, Sideshow Steve Harper.   Fair enough, we're all agreed on that. ...

Pope Frankie the Humble caught the media's attention when, after winning the biggest contest in Christendom, he went back to his hotel,...

In the fiscally dodgy Athabasca Tar Sands it was really only a matter of time before the call would come to bring in cheap Chinese labour....

The Fossil Fuelers' nightmares lie not so much with environmentalists and regulators as with shareholders and investors.   The energy co...