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Robert's Place
by robertjb (centrist)
About The Author
Robert Billyard is an artist and writer living in the bucolic hinterlands of British Columbia Canada. He reads widely on history, politics and social issues, and has at various times been politically active. He is married with children and grandchildren and has a deep concern for the legacy we leave them. About The Column
Commentary on our times
Running on fear as the corporate welfare state collapses
Published: January 29, 2012
How corporate welfarism is ruining our societies
Joe Oliver's Desparate Hour
Published: January 22, 2012
Canadas Minister of Natural Resources is running scared. He knows the truth is out there.
Scandalous Thoughts on F-35s, Aston Martins, and the Military Mall of Horrors
Published: February 11, 2011
The F-35 is as useless as tits on a bull and the Russians aren’t comin’ any time soon.
The Machiavellian Richard Perle
Published: February 5, 2011
Fraudulent claims of serving the greater good, and evils that live on
Social Psychosis: The Legacy of 9/11
Published: January 4, 2011
9/11 was shoddy theatrics, long on audacity and short on credibility. It is time to put aside fear, trauma truths of convenience and insist the truth be told.
Tom Flanagan’s Fascist Pathology
Published: December 4, 2010
The Prime Minister's friend, mentor, advisor and biographer has gone out of bounds big time!-and the silence from the PMO and the media is deafening
Militarism: Killing People and Economies
Published: August 11, 2010
In the face of floundering Western economies governments must finally address obsessive military spending
Harper, Obama and the Impossible Fat Albert
Published: July 19, 2010
To keep Fat Albert really happy and well fed other countries are coerced into buying war toys they don’t need and can’t afford. Thus we have Canada about to buy 65 F-35 fighters at an astounding 140 million dollars each.
The Nitze Doctrine: How to ruin a country and possibly the whole damned world.
Published: February 7, 2010
America’s criminal addiction to militarism is a global pestilence.
Jumping through the hoops for America’s imperialist wars.
Published: January 12, 2010
Next time you’re at the airport…
Torture: The greased pig of our perilous existence
Published: November 23, 2009
Torture:A pervasive and impeccable hypocrisy, once undertaken is very difficult to eradicate
The new entitlement: Canadians and others as de facto Americans
Published: November 2, 2009
An open letter to my American cousins
Political Paralysis American Style
Published: October 19, 2009
Obama must be recast as the Hollywood hero
Nuclear Politics: Western leaders asinine game of brinksmanship
Published: September 28, 2009
To date they failing grades on all counts.
The triumph of ideology over common sense
Published: September 19, 2009
Bill Moyers asks the right question. David Frum gives the wrong answer.
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