Politics and its Discontents

This is a clearer and more succinct explication of the rise of dangerous right-wing politics than I think I have ever heard. It might be te...

This is how a politically disgruntled Brit is dealing with his frustration over the Tories. Anyone in Canada up for a little creative p...

The current scandal engulfing the CBC and Amanda Lang has made its way overseas into the cross-hairs of The Guardian's George Monbiot...

As the effects of climate change become more pronounced, adaptive measures will need to be taken alongside of measures ameliorating the rate...

Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, delivers a stark warning and a call to arms in this year’s Sheffield Political Economy Research...

The Mound writes: Hi Lorne. I spotted this article in the ‘comments’ section of The Guardian. It’s been a while since I heard anythin...

Yesterday, inspired by a link sent to me by The Mound of Sound, I wrote a post on some of the dire implications of the surveillance state...

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you. -The Police - Every Breat...

So says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if we are to take action to limit the global average tem...

What was once Canada the cool, the country a 1991 Economist cover story called the "post-modern nation-state", has now devolved...

Yesterday was not a good day for me. First, I awoke to read about the government raid on the Guardian office resulting in the destruction ...

Or, to update the metaphor, computers being destroyed by the govenment: The message is clear: citizens do not have the right to material...

I really questioned whether I should put the following video on my blog, so graphic is it in its depiction of the forced feeding that 40 of...

At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to admit that the profoundly ignorant deeply distress me, especially those who revel in that i...

For those interested, there is a thoughtful article on the implications of the Occupy Wall Street Protest found, not in an American newspape...