The Disaffected Lib

Israel has never been reluctant to spy on its global benefactor, the United States. Now Washington is accusing Israel of having spied on A...

Florida governor Rick Scott continues to deny that his office has forbidden state staff to use the term "climate change."  Really,...

When it's completely boiled down what are robotics except the process of capital owning labour?  What are the implications of that i...

I was lucky enough to be around when Trudeau (the real one, not Junior) inspired us all with his vision of a "Just Society" for ...

An older friend recently showed up for his annual visit.  As we had dinner on Friday evening he mentioned that he'd had a computer p...

After half a century of persistent fudging the Pentagon has officially admitted the undeniable - Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons...

When Alan Rusbridger retires this summer as editor in chief of The Guardian , Katherine Viner will fill his shoes and, as the first fem...

For all the wholly deserved criticism of the F-35 light attack bomber, there are some things that Lockheed and its partners got right.  ...

Most of us just don't want to know.  Most of the rest are coming to feel the same way a lot of the time. Interesting op-ed by Quinc...

The key to understanding the dilemma is to realize that Tar Sand, bitumen, is just a part of Alberta's oil history.  The province ha...

Not dead yet.  The venerable Boston Globe  has published an editorial urging a certain American to run for the presidency of the United S...

I first voted in the 1968 elections when Pierre Trudeau and Trudeaumania led the liberals to a massive majority and I've watched Ca...

David Mulroney served as a deputy minister in charge of Canada's Afghanistan task force.  It seems he learned a thing or two from t...

It's reported that the Saudis have given Israel a green light to overfly Saudi Arabia should Netanyahu decide to launch an attack o...

A Warmonger and a Fearmonger Angela Merkel thinks that Germany (and the rest of the West) is being conned by NATO and the U.S. inflating...

Barack Obama has been musing about the benefits of Australian-style, compulsory voting.  Nothing would scare Republicans more than that sort...

Maybe some day Benjamin Netanyahu will be known as the founder of the state of Palestine.  Strange things are happening.  From the Sydne...

For some, maybe, but apparently not for us.  Here's what EnviroCan says is in store for us on the wet coast: Rain, at times heavy, con...

In today's New York Times  Tom Friedman writes; The biggest losers in all of this, besides all the Israelis who did not vote for N...

The fuel of the authoritarian state is always the same.  It's fear.  Distorted, wildly inflated, even irrational, fear is the cheap ...