The Disaffected Lib

If your idea of freedom is a 500 kg. bomb, then it is indeed raining freedom in Libya. Without so much as a by your leave from the UN S...

Australian artist, Missy Higgins, was nursing her newborn son when she saw the photograph of Aylan Kurdi's lifeless body being carri...

In case you're not familiar with it, a "freebooter" is a pirate or a lawless adventurer. It's a term that seems fitting to...

Ya wanna be the president of the United States? Ya betta be a Christian. Sorry Bernie. Every president of them United States of America has...

Libya's neighbours are getting prepared for a Western invasion of their failed state next door. A few days ago Canada's defmin,...

San Francisco has changed. The once beautiful, laid back people place has been overrun with the wealthy of Silicon Valley who even have...

They were ready for the raid by Egyptian cops last month. As the police stormed the apartment building in Cairo's Ahman slum they w...

And, when I do, I think of this scene and it makes me smile.  Maybe it would be a better place if we all just said "no" a lot...

The exodus of Syrian refugees has us thinking of migrants as strangers from distant lands with foreign cultures and languages. We don't ...

My American son-in-law is a fierce supporter of Bernie Sanders. Like many young, educated Americans he sees Sanders as a "last chan...

Sometimes it's hard to tell how many wars are being waged in Syria. Some of them seem to blur together and then part again. Sometimes t...

I suppose Syria is just down the road from Armageddon. I guess that'll have to do. Let's see, we've got so many players - Syr...

Last week the United States Supreme Court kicked Obama's emissions reduction policy to the curb. That was one of the final decisions ta...

The voice of the fringe right on the US Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, is dead. Plenty of time for Obama to appoint a replacement.

Is it time to shoot-up Libya? DefMin Harjit Sajjan hints that Canada may be looking for a new shooting war assisting Italian forces to fig...

It's called reality and it's the rarest of commodities when Canada's political leadership addresses the subject of Israel.  M...

It's going to happen and, when it does, it will eclipse anything we experienced in 2015. "It" refers to the first of what is ...

Thank your lucky stars you're not. You're Canadian which is another way of saying very, very fortunate. A new study finds that ...

You don't often come across a vulnerability this huge. The fossil energy companies, virtually the lot of them, have a ginormous proble...

If American students are told much at all about climate change, there's a good chance what they're being told isn't true m...