Oil Status Quo Apologists Spin Weak Arguments
Maclean’s Colin Campbell has produced today an interesting counterpoint to my exuberance over Jeff Rubin’s convenient vindication of my peak oil killing neoliberal globalization thesis. And despite Rubin not knowing me, I fell it’s appropriate to defend him–and my–sense of the near future. My comments are indented. Energy shock and oil myths Will soaring prices crush [...]
Memo to Harper: Bush Doesn’t Have Your Back Anymore
Someone should really tell the prime minister that George w.Caesar doesn’t have his back on angry imperialist rhetoric anymore. It’s one thing for Ignatieff to sit quietly, saying nothing, waiting for the economy to implode Harper’s government, but for Harper to show that he still thinks the Bush Doctrine rules the world means his crash [...]
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The Venezuelan-Russia-USA Dance
We should all be noting a few things about escalating dance between the USA and Venezuela. A few months ago, after 58 years of being a part of the larger US Second Fleet, the USA reconstituted its Fourth Fleet to enhance its presence in its traditional sphere of influence: Latin America, perhaps the most successful [...]
How Many More Wars Do You Want, Anyway?
Pick a number, then vote McCain: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w] Some context: Sarah Palin said two things which can be pegs for an attack ad of this kind: 1. War with Russia could happen over the Georgia conflict 2. Soldiers going to Iraq are fighting the people who killed thousands of Americans on Sept. 11. Share the Love: [...]
The End of Globalization–Can You Smell it Yet?
A few years ago I was sitting in the pub at Simon Fraser University with the usual suspects…a gang of mostly political science graduate and undergraduate students for our weekly 4-hour lunch consisting of political debate and movie reviews. I can’t remember the details but I had just been learning about peak oil. Petrochemicals have [...]
Why Celebrities Should Be Political Reporters
Today I read an interesting commentary on the negative reaction people have against Oprah Winfrey endorsing Barack Obama. People seem to think she shouldn’t be all that partisan. I think that’s an interesting–and ignorant–point of view that undermines democracy. These days in Alberta, teachers are not allowed to run for school board, even in districts [...]
Why I’d Rather Cast a Ballot in Venezuela than Canada or the USA
With Canada’s 19th-century first past the post electoral system and the USA’s rampant electoral fraud and conflicts of interest, voting in Venezuela seems like a tonic. And in Venezuela’s recent referendum on political change that failed by roughly the same infinitesimal vote as Quebec’s referendum failed a decade or so ago, the North American media [...]
USA vs. Iran and Cubazuela
When w.Caesar should be gracefully entering his presidential lame duck status and thinking about who to pardon [whoops, he already got on that with Scooter Libby], he is instead feeding warm, bleeding horse meat to the dogs of war. From today’s Washington Post: In approving far-reaching, new unilateral sanctions against Iran, President Bush signaled yesterday [...]
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