President Bush gave a speech today at Monticello, once the home of Thomas Jefferson. As he began speaking, dissenters in the audience became vocal, as is their Constitutional right. Ironically, as the first of them was being dragged away by the Secret Service, the President had the audacity to claim that that was the great thing about America – that Americans have the right to free speech… …and after about 20 or seconds of it they ...More »

On this day, two hundred and thirty two years ago, the representatives of the States that comprised the Continental Congress issued a Declaration of Independence. Despite historical glorifications of the event, not all of the States representatives were for the Declaration. In truth, numerous delegations from various States were opposed to it and eventually signed only after a lengthy process of politicking. As most are aware, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration, though it is believed ...More »

‘Collateral damage’ – a term popularized by the US military during the Vietnam War. In short it is the unintentional damage caused during an intentional military operation. Today in Afghanistan ‘collateral damage’ took the lives of 22 civilians, among them women and children. The civilians were complying with evacuation orders given them by US troops when the trucks transporting them were destroyed by air strikes. As is always the case, the US military conceded that the ...More »

Jean-Pierre Bemba, the ex-Vice President of the DR Congo, has been extradited to The Hague to face war crime charges. While a rebel leader in 2002, forces under Bemba’s command have been accused of committing atrocities, an accusation that Bemba naturally denies. The likes of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and a cast of others will not share Bemba’s fate. The reason? Because the United States opted out of the ICC after 9/11 ...More »

George Bush or children’s television… President George Walker Bush has a great deal in common with children’s television. As we’re all aware, children’s television commonly focuses on the development of the imagination and the employment of rudimentary language and hyperbole. In doing so, it often presents outlandish scenarios that are constructed on the fantastical – such as large yellow birds that are able to speak to invisible elephants. Interestingly, President Bush also presents outlandish scenarios constructed ...More »

Canada’s urban homie squads or the Taliban… When you’re a hard ass urban gangster, fear isn’t an issue. Unless, of course, you’re faced with hardened fanatics actually returning fire rather than peeing their pants when you produce whatever handgun you’ve illegally acquired because your penis is only 2 inches fully erect. Let’s cut the shit – the truth is that you wear bad clothes, have access to 24 hour drive through, listen to horrible music in ...More »

Nature or al-Qaeda… Which, you might be asking yourself, is the greater terrorist threat? Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has taken no direct responsibility for any major terrorist action, not even the London bombings. And while groups in Iraq are allegedly aligned with al-Qaeda, the chances that they’re receiving direct orders from Osama bin Laden - by way of anything up to and including Morse code - is a stretch. Nature, on the other hand, is a completely different ...More »

It’s Canada Day. And while millions of Canadians celebrate across the country, the reality that we are a nation caught up in the most foolish proxy war that this nation has ever been lured into will no doubt go largely overlooked. Fireworks and beer have that affect. Our men and women in uniform, doing their duty, are the ones that will have to endure the reckless policies and military usury that will keep them in Afghanistan ...More »

Seymour Hersh’s latest piece for The New Yorker, Preparing The Battlefield: The Bush Administration Steps Up Its Secret Moves Against Iran, is a must read… “Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his public statements. “Too many people believe you have to be either for or against the Iranians,” he told me. “Let’s get serious. Eighty million ...More »

Fuck God That’s what God would say Prayers like post-its A room full of crow cloaked Grendel’s Rubbing their scaly hands Polished diamonds Silver and gold Little boys and little girls Fuck God That’s what God would say Pummeling Whiskey Pulling on a Camel With his gay friends I ain’t you and you ain’t me That ain’t in the Bible But it should be That’s what God would say Bodies and blood On sheets and on battlefields On your mind and on your hands Maniacs the lot of you Called in sick that seventh ...More »