@ September 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet
By David Cobb It never ceases to amaze me that the United States government, which champions multi-party democracy for countries such as Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan, manages to ignore one-party corporate rule of the U.S. by the Republican-Democratic duopoly. It is time for the U.S. to practice at home what it preaches abroad ? genuine, [...]
@ September 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
If socialism has been, at best, a corrective to the worst excesses of Capitalism then where else can we draw our inspiration from? If the mainstream of socialism (so called state socialism, communism, or social democracy) is solidly interested in the same progressive, economic assimilation as the dominant world then we could look to its [...]
@ September 28, 2004 # 2 Comments
The BC Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform announced on September 12 that proportional representation is one of their top three values in developing a recommendation for any new electoral system. The other two key values are local representation and voter choice. The Assembly plenary session heard presentations from nine people on September 11, among them [...]
@ September 27, 2004 # No Comment Yet
STATEMENT BY H.E. MR. FELIPE PÉREZ ROQUE, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE 59TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. NEW YORK, 24 SEPTEMBER 2004. Mr. President: Every year at the United Nations we go through the same ritual. We attend the general debate knowing beforehand that the clamor [...]
@ September 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet
On November 15th, the five-year appointment of Robert Rabinovitch as President of the CBC will expire. As you may know, Rabinovitch was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. FRIENDS strongly supports the unanimous recommendation of the House of Commons Heritage Committee that “the CBC President should be hired by and be responsible to the Board” [...]
@ September 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Canadian nationalist Mel Hurtig exposes Paul Martin’s secret commitment to George W. Bush’s weaponizing of space. Mel Hurtig has five best-sellers to his credit but this is easily his most important book. Readers will be shocked to learn how both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon’s unprecedented plans [...]
@ September 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Fossil fuel overuse has created environmental problems of such magnitude that even an aggressive transition to renewable energy (RE) may take 50+ years for environmental stabilization. Even given that, a more critical and immediate concern involves security of the global energy supplies and infrastructure. The terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Center in [...]
@ September 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
What’s Censored? The International Herald Tribune reported on September 20th that “the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.” Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke confirmed that a number of Internet service providers worldwide had been blacklisted “to thwart hackers.” Such measures are [...]
@ September 23, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Six months after the abrupt and violence-laced departure of constitutionally elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and over three months after the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping units which were hailed as an instrument for order and stability in this long-troubled Caribbean island, Haiti remains poised on the edge of chaos. Just as nature in the form of [...]
@ September 22, 2004 # No Comment Yet
A Popular Mobilization Against Deportation of Palestinians from Canada On Saturday September 18th more than 1000 people took the streets of downtown Montreal under the banner of “Stateless and Deported” to illustrate the growing popular support for the struggle of Palestinian refugees fighting deportation in Canada, within the context of the Palestinian solidarity movement worldwide. [...]