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Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: 10 Reasons Canada’s Tar Sands Suck
Canada’s right-wing Prime Minister is in New York today trying to convince lawmakers that the tar sands are okay, and that the Keystone XL pipeline should go ahead. At the same time, Canada’s environment minister is in London trying to convince politicians there that tar sands crude is the same as regular sweet crude, and [...] -
Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: When We Attack the NRA, Beretta and Smith & Wesson Giggle
I know, I know, it is super-fun to hate the National Rifle Association. They say a lot of stupid things that really tick people off, like saying the answer to school gun violence is armed guards in every school. Then there’s their unofficial leader, the Nuge, who told NRA convention goers last year that he would [...]
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Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: Another Oil Pipeline Spill on the Weekend, Where’s the Media Attention?
While clean up continues on the Exxon oil spill in Arkansas , another oil pipeline burst was detected over the weekend – this time in Houston, Texas. The Shell Oil owned pipeline burst was detected Friday by the US National Response Center and has dumped an estimated 30,000 gallons of oil into a waterway connected to the Gulf [...] -
Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: New Aussie Commission Report Sees Threat from an ‘Energetic Climate’
Record heatwaves, droughts, bushfires, rainfall, coastal erosion can all be expected in Australia in the near-term, reports the country’s Climate Commission. According to this esteemed group of climate scientists , the increased extreme weather events are courtesy of man-made climate change. I must admit what really stood out to me after reading the Climate Commission’s most comprehensive evaluation [...]
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Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: Another Hit to Canada’s Tar Sands, Major Research Study Dropped
The Helmholtz Association of Research Centres , a major German scientific body with more than 30,000 researchers and US$4.4 billion in annual funding , has dropped out of a joint Alberta tar sands project over fears that the project was damaging the institution’s reputation. In April 2011, the Province of Alberta invested $25 million to form the “Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative” that would [...] -
Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: More Controversy Uncovered Today on Keystone Pipeline Environmental Assessment Firm
The climate change site, DeSmogBlog has found that Environmental Resources Management, the consulting firm behind the Keystone XL Pipeline environmental impact assessment , has been at the center of controversial pipeline projects in the past. Activists working against the 2002 planned construction of British Petroleum’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey, singled out Environmental Resources Management (ERM) for what they saw as [...]
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Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: New Study Finds Koch Bros. Tried to Start Tea Party Movement in 2002
Shattering the public perception that the Tea Party is a spontaneous popular citizens movement, a new academic paper provides evidence that an organization founded by David and Charles Koch, attempted to launch the Tea Party movement in 2002. The peer-reviewed study appearing in the academic journal, Tobacco Control and titled, ‘ To quarterback behind the scenes, third party [...] -
Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: How Will Kerry Handle Bilateral Today With Canada’s Oil Obsessed Foreign Minister?
Newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Friday with his Canadian counterpart, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. In any such bilateral meeting, it is paramount that each participant trust the words of his counterpart. After all, when it comes to the world of diplomacy, where wars are settled and treaties are signed, there’s [...] -
Kevin Grandia wrote a new diary post: There’s a Storm Brewing in Canada and It’s Called Idle No More
So here I thought moving back to Canada from Washington, DC, I would get a little break from politics. That isn’t happening and it’s thanks to an amazing citizens movement that is taking the country by storm. The movement is called Idle No More , and it is right now centered around an amazingly strong-willed First Nations woman [...] -
Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
Donald, thank you so much for your time, this is an absolutely fascinating topic and I bet we could have gone on for many more hours. But alas, I have two little girls staring at me in anticipation of going to chop down a tree for the holidays. Take care and thanks again for such a well written book.
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
That would be an amazing day not just for China and Tibet, but I think a testament to the entire human race.
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
Hear! Hear!
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
I cannot talk about China without talking about Tibet. For more than 60 years now Tibet has been under an ironclad rule by the Communist Party. These beautiful people and their amazing culture deserve to freed and given back their country. Is there any hope that the current Dalai Lama will see the day there is aa free and automous Tibetan nation?
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
That is fascinating. And coming back to your book, what is the military strategy you propose?
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
Wow, that seems so short sighted to me.
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
Donald, I have always wondered about this issues of the US trade deficit with China and also all the US debt China owns.
When it some to the “China Hawks” as you call them in your book, isn’t an invasion of China or China invasion of the US a mutually destructive proposition? It seems to me that the economies of the US and China are both pretty tied at the hip and if one falls, they both fall? Is that correct or am I overstating the situation?
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
Do you know something I don’t know?
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
With a decision coming soon on a new US Secretary of State, of the two likely choices being Ambassador Rice and Sen. Kerry, is there one of these two people that stands out on China-US relations?
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
I see what you are getting at, but sorry, Greenpeace is far from being a pawn of the US government – or of any government for that matter.
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Kevin Grandia commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Donald Gross, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China’s Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
How is is condescending. They are in many ways, very much still a developing nation. While they have hosted an Olympics and have wonderful and massive cities, you only need to travel a few hours out into the country to witness extreme poverty, environmental devastation and major corruption.
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