An excellent interview at Democracy Now with William Black : As Foreclosures Hit All-Time High, Wall Street on Pace to Hand Out Record $140B...

DER SPIEGEL   has an article by Hans-Ulrich Stoldt and Klaus Wiegrefe, about " East German Jokes Collected by West German Spies". ...

Looking more like Dick all the time, Steve. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has now joined then Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter MacKay and t...

And I thought all the whackos lived in Florida. Look what we've got right here in BC, via CBC News : Home circumcision of 4-year-old e...

THE LA TIMES has an opinion piece worthy of your consideration. Titled " China's class ceiling " by Ian Buruma, it points out...

If you are a clergyman, you can pick and chose the people for whom you are willing to perform wedding ceremonies. If a couple comes to you a...

RossK at The Gazetteer may be on to something here : Starting Wednesday (Oct 14th), B.C. Ferries will reduce the Horseshoe Bay/Departure Bay...

A lawyer for Taser Int. told the Braidwood Inquiry yesterday that medical testimony linking the death of Robert Dziekanski to his being tase...

A four day old story at CBC about Gordo's latest attempt to stifle Owelympic protest has garnered over 900 comments and counting. . Can...

Ya'll got all excited 'bout the prez comin' to the HRC dinner and makin' promises , didn't ya'? Well, since you'...

THERE COULD BE A BLOB in your future. Blob-existance is a perceived problem, according to the National Geographic's report by Christine...

THE NATIONAL is an interesting site out of Abu Dhabi, with a report by Tom Scocca about the "Bites of passage", the progressive w...

Canada's largest media company, Canwest Global Communications, aka AsperMedia, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in a deal that...

Another couple of responsible gun owners killed. I suppose we should be grateful it happened at home and not at one the kids soccer games to...

Are there no depths Goldman Sachs - or as Matt Taibbi refers to them : "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, rele...

My only question about this incident is why it took so long to happen. Teens question authority. It is what they do, its practically hardwi...

My guess would be that, as in most government scandals, the big problem here is not going to be the initial misconduct by some underling, bu...

THE LA TIMES has a marvellous report by Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan on something that maddens the mullahs. Titled, " Gadget to h...