By RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW, Campaign for America’s Future Selling the Middle Class Sell-Outhttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/53450699/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list
Withdrawal? We didn’t mean full withdrawal.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces additional funding for aid in Afghanistan, 26 February 2007, Ottawa, ON: …Afghanistan is a long way from home, but the issues we are addressing here – building […]
"Mystified by the lack of indignation"
During the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s—a scandal whose dimensions, by today’s standards, seem almost quaint—the banker Charles Keating was asked by a congressional committee whether the $1.5 million he had spread […]
Money machine crashed, taxpayers injured
ProPublica reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their stories on how some Wall Street bankers, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of […]
Is justice only available to the rich and powerful?
You can help. Follow this link and lend support. From Laila Yuile: Wonderful and stunning news that I wholeheartedly support!! I would very much like to host a fundraiser for residents of […]
Fracking and drilling benign?
http://embed.5min.com/516997856/ Mud Volcano in Sidoarjo Indonesia
Faces of Canadian history
Harper says, “mass arrests all worth it” Toronto Canada 2010 C.W.A.C. 1944 – They served so we could be free. Lance Cpl John Babcock, C.E.F. 1916-18
“I don’t understand why I just can’t go home,”
Ron Winter on the Vancouver Island Granny Snatching story: By way of an update I am about to tell you how badly things there have gone since media attention focused on Broadmead and […]
From Gerry Hummel, master of the editorial cartoon
See this and more of Hummel’s work at The Common Sense Canadian. Gerry Hummell is a brilliant throw-back to BC’s great editorial cartoonists Len Norris and Roy Peterson. .
Twisted irony: right winger proves government spending wasteful
Accountability officers of Parliament have a fairly decent record of improving spending practices, government efficiency and integrity. The effectiveness though of an Auditor, Ombudsman, Electoral commissioner or other officer is dependent on […]
G20: Will police ever be held accountable?
To Serve and Protect
PHD: Piled Higher and Deeper
April 5, the Vancouver Sun brought us a “Special to the Sun” by Patrick Moore PHD, titled Fukushima is nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl. “Stephanie Goodwin’s letter comparing the incident at […]
My MLA: Jane Thornthwaite, Liberal – UPDATED
Ah, the Special Prosecutor system worked again, for the BC Liberals. Today, Kash Heed applauded the work of Jane Thornthwaite‘s Special Prosecutor Mark Jette and issued this statement. At least, it was attributed to […]
Dangerous journalist
Dr. Michael Byers is an academic with a broad vision of the world and what it should be. He has expertise in international law and a particular interest in the Arctic. Byers holds […]
A view back, a view ahead
The American style right wing agenda begins in Canada soon, if a majority Harper Government is returned by electors. If you like what BC Liberals achieved, you will love a Tory majority. […]
More reasons to question
Whether Gas is Cleaner than Coal, Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica: In January, a ProPublica investigation found that large amounts of “fugitive” emissions were left out of common comparisons between coal and gas and […]
Shale gas ‘worse than coal’ for climate
By Richard Black, Environment Correspondent, BBC News “Drawn from rock through a controversial “fracking” process, some hail the gas as a “stepping stone” to a low-carbon future and a route to energy […]
USA gas industry trying to catch BC’s gas industry in self-regulation
From the Center for American Progress: The oil and natural gas lobby is working hard to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from establishing safeguards to protect the public from chemicals used to […]
Would you buy a used car from this man?
Aubrey Kerr (*) McLendon is CEO of natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy, founder of American Clean Skies Foundation and moneyman for the now defunct Swift Vets and POWs for Truth: “You don’t want […]
Question posed, response offered
This small piece was first posted in March 24 and a comment added April 11. It suggests a little research is in order. I have not verified this but would like to […]
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It speaks ill of how the world has been reduced to internet memes, likes and followers as the Trump crime…