Category: Military Spending

Desperate Pakistan Still Buying Fighter-Jets!

  The new edition of The Monitor (CCPA) has some very good stuff. In particular see the excellent articles on money-saving pharmacare and Bruce Campbell’s on neo-con economics. *     *     *     *     * Print journalists don’t seem to understand how much trouble Canada is in because of our steadily deteriorating current account balance which has [...]

Thursday October 14th, 2010 in Deficit, Health Care, Income Disparity, Military Spending, Potash, Poverty | 1 Comment »

Health Care, Our Branch-Plant Economy, Permanent War and More…

  With the addition of Gwyn Morgan, the Globe has another right-wing columnist.  His latest about health care made me look twice to make sure it wasn’t written by a Tea Party member.  What the paper needs, instead, is more thoughtful and knowledgeable writers like Lawrence Martin. *     *    *     *     * If you know [...]

Tuesday September 14th, 2010 in Foreign Investment, Health Care, Military Spending, Productivity, US Politics | 2 Comments »

Only in Canada! Doesn’t It Make You Ill?

  Phew!  What a relief!  Now we can all sleep easier.  The experts in our Senate have “studied” the matter and now tell us not to worry about drilling for oil in the deep Atlantic where new wells will be twice as deep as in the Gulf of Mexico, and not in the Arctic either [...]

Friday August 20th, 2010 in Arctic, Conrad Black, Conservative Party, Foreign Aid, Foreign Takeovers, Military Spending, Offshore Drilling, Oil | Comments Off

Military Spending/Keep Conrad Black Out/We Need Statistics

Rick Salutin points out that the U.S. military budget is now 43% of what the entire rest of the world spends on their total military spending.  Also, that in 1972, U.S. prisons held some 300,000 inmates. By 2008 there were 7.3 million Americans in jail, on probation or on parole. *     *     *     *     * [...]

Monday July 26th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Census, Conrad Black, Military Spending, Statistics Canada, US Politics | Comments Off