Don’t be fooled by the editorial pages and the other scoundrels, the other liars and cowards—we’re not doing politics anymore, we’re preparing for tribal warfare.
China
Apophis, David Bowie, RePOOPulate, Omar Hammami, Piers Morgan, Crown-First Nations, Bailey’s Irish Cream, Saudi Arabia
• Podcast 026 | Week of 13.01.2013 Photo: Daniel Novisedlak Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
Ultraman, Newsweek #lastprintissue, India’s Lost Tribe, Silvio Berlusconi, Sattar Beheshti, Berlin, Marilyn Monroe, Flatulence, 2012 in Review
• Podcast 024 | Week of 30.12.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
One Empty Chair and Many Empty Words
THERE ARE A few rules to which I’ve held myself as a professional speech writer. Do your homework, know and respect your audience and the protocols governing the occasion, and always prefer the plain truth that will not please your… Read More ›
The Conservative Party’s courting of China is shameful
I KNOW FROM experience the most efficient way to start a fist-fight in some circles is to use, without irony, the word evil. As in the phrase Axis of Evil. On this principle, George W. Bush was mocked for years… Read More ›
The Keystone Kops and the Kase for Ethical Oil
I WAS AT the infamous Portage and Main intersection of Winnipeg when I learned yesterday of US President Barack Obama’s disingenuous move to decline the Keystone XL pipeline proposal. Standing in the open air of that corner on a January… Read More ›
As Tibet Burns
I‘LL WAGER that you weren’t informed of it by the media, but it happens that yesterday was the Global Day of Action undertaken by the International Campaign for Tibet. I was on Parliament Hill in Ottawa when a large crowd… Read More ›
John Baird Raises His Red Lantern
It appears (to me at least) that the Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, is learning about the world and its localized histories in public and in real-time. On the first of June, he admitted as much to Canadian Press journalist… Read More ›
An Unwelcome Birthday Gift For Kim Jong Il
It seems to me that Kim Jong Il’s birthday is a good day to reflect upon the fact that the regimes of North Korea and China are this world’s most depraved and dangerous abominations. The former constitutes “the world’s greatest… Read More ›
CSIS: Getting It Right, Through Accident
Some days ago, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Richard Fadden, said in what he presumed to be a sealed audience that “There are several municipal politicians in British Columbia and in at least two provinces there are ministers… Read More ›
June Fourth Thoughts
I confess that on this particular June 4th I’m pleased to see Tony Hayward having quite an unpleasant time of it. If only somehow we could spread the malaise more broadly, across the globe’s Unaccountables. We know too well however,… Read More ›
