Biological Warfare

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters When it comes to cable news punditry, there are apparently no consequences for being spectacularly and horrifically wrong. Look no further than Judith Miller. As the United States and Iran seem to be on a collision course following Pr…

Key point: Deterrence has been key to the North's survival. Would the Trump administration actually consider invading North Korea? First of all, it goes without saying I hope this never happens. However, history tells us we must plan for the worst.  So wha…

NEW YORK—The man stumbled into the police precinct in Hell’s Kitchen late one night, staggering toward a tall reception desk painted black and blue. Before the desk officer could ask the man his business, he collapsed on a bench, dripping blood. When officer…

I think this whole anti-CAA/NCR protest-thingie is a Machiavellian diversion engineered by the tukde-tukde gang to distract us from the real revolution that is quietly, aromatically, unfolding right under our noses. In fact, despite our naive nostrils getting…

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life. from The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon When you think about it, after 9/11, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush did Americans a fav…

One of the persistent themes of western political leaders is that they support the notion of the rule of law. By this they generally mean the system of law as developed by western nations, and in the international context the formulation over the past 120 yea…

In my former life as a pediatric nurse, I thought I was an expert on kids and sickness. I was even a little smug about it, with my fancy degree and seen it all mindset. Even after my first child, who sailed through her first year with nary an ear…

Whether its the Moon landing, the JFK assassination or the 9/11 attacks, conspiracy theories have an enduring appeal. The rise of the internet and social media throughout this decade has created a favourable climate for conjecture, both wild and entirely plau…

The man stumbled into the police precinct in Hell's Kitchen late one night, staggering toward a tall reception desk painted black and blue. Before the desk officer could ask the man his business, he collapsed on a bench, dripping blood. When officers pulled…

Over the last few days there has been a significant amount of online debate about alien abductions, mind-altering technologies, and the possibility that some alien abductions may have been the work of the CIA and not of extraterrestrials. In his December 19, …