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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Carol Miller: We Need Health Care, Not Insurance
A very complex, mandatory private insurance scheme recently passed the U.S. House. The public is being overwhelmed by sound bites on one hand about how great it is, on the other, how terrible. We are hearing few of the details that are actually in the bill. Having read the bill, it is clear now that what started as health reform has emerged from the political process as health "deform," building on ...
Monday, October 12, 2009
Interview: Malalai Joya Talks to London Progressive Journal, by Steven Littlewood
Malalai Joya has been described by the BBC as “the bravest woman in Afghanistan”. A long-term opponent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) presence in her country, Joya first rose to prominence through a heartfelt and controversial speech in 2003 that was an indictment of the powerful positions gifted to Afghan Warlords by the US-led coalition.
Monday, October 5, 2009
The end of Israel? Hannah Mermelstein
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"The day will come when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights. As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished." Ehud Olmert
Friday, October 2, 2009
OPINION: What you don't know about lawful access - Page 1 - Online Retailing and Ecommerce - Enterprise Business Applica
Bill C-46, the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act (IP21C) and Bill C-47, the Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement in the 21st Century Act (TALEA) aim to give Canadian law enforcement, national security agencies and other “authorities” broader powers to acquire digital evidence to support their investigations.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Straight Goods - Beware American fibs about Canadian programs - Right promotes profit over people in health care, pensio
With the American right poised to derail yet another attempt to bring public health care to the United States, Canada has been dragged in for a disturbing cameo role.
By any reasonable measure, our health-care system is stellar compared to theirs, yet ours has been cast as the scary bad guy to serve as a cautionary tale to those who consider it urgent to provide health-care coverage to the 47 million Americans who don't have
Saturday, July 25, 2009
EFF Demands Intelligence Agencies' Reports About Possible Misconduct - EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a half-dozen other federal agencies involved in intelligence gathering, demanding the immediate release of reports about potential misconduct. EFF filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), requesting records of intelligence agencies' reporting of activities since 2001 that might have been unlawful ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
DailyKos bans writer for mocking settlements - Cecelie Surasky
What's up with DailyKos? This isn't the first time they've banned bloggers for writing about Israel and Palestine, but this surely is the dumbest case. Guess that free trip to Israel really went to their heads.
Mondoweiss reports that Jane Stillwater got booted from DailyKos for making fun of, um, settlements.
Seriously. She made fun of illegal, immoral, ridiculously anti-peace, settlements ...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Washington & the Coup in Honduras: Here is the Evidence - Eva Golinger
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No one doubts that the fingerprints of Washington are all over the coup d'etat against President Manuel Zelaya that began last June 28th. Many analysts, writers, activists and even presidents, have denounced this role. Nevertheless, the majority coincide in excusing the Obama Administration from any responsibility in the Honduran coup, blaming instead the lingering remains of the Bush-Cheney era ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
That commenter on your blog may actually be working for the Israeli government - Cecilie Surasky
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Straight out of Avigdor Lieberman's Foreign Ministry: a new Internet Fighting Team! Israeli students and demobilized soldiers get paid to pretend they are just regular folks and leave pro-Israel comments on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites. The effort is meant to fight the "well-oiled machine" of "pro-Palestinian websites, with huge budgets... with content from the Hamas news agency." The approach was test-marketed
Monday, July 6, 2009
McKinney released, returning to United States | ajc.com
Cynthia McKinney's mom said she's learned that her daughter is on the way home.
Leola McKinney said a friend who contacted the U.S. Embassy in Israel reported that the former congresswoman was released from Israeli custody and taken to Ben Gurion International Airport.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
TheStar.com | Opinion | In a crisis, bash the workers
In tough times, diehard free market disciples can be relied on to do two things: revert to divisive hard-right talk and scapegoat. The poor, unionized workers and those on the margins are common targets for attacks that pander to a base of support and baser emotions, rather than seeking solutions that are best for all people. Sid Ryan, national president, CUPE
Thursday, July 2, 2009
McKinney: I'm in Jail in Israel
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Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed in a phone call posted online that she is in an Israeli prison with others who attempted to run a blockade to deliver supplies to Gaza.
McKinney and about 18 other activists in Israeli custody for the past three days will likely be released by Sunday, according to the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Lunch hour protest by London's workers at crackdown in Iran
Workers from across London will be giving up their lunch hour tomorrow (Friday 26 June) to protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Kensington at the Iranian government's harsh treatment of trade unionists during the current crackdown.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Veenezuelan opposition unions have not held elections for over 5 years
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Let it be known that ALL democratically legitimate trade unions in Venezuela are giving their full support to the philosophy of President Chavez' political and economic revolution in out country: Oil workers, utility services, Iron & steel industry workers, aluminum workers, Metro- and Transport workers, school teachers, public administration workers, construction workers, health workers ... the list goes on and on!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
EFF and ACLU Planning to Appeal Dismissal of Dozens of Spying Cases | Electronic Frontier Foundation
San Francisco - A federal judge today dismissed dozens of lawsuits over illegal domestic surveillance of American citizens, ruling that telecommunications companies had immunity from liability under the controversial FISA Amendments Act (FISAAA). The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) California and Illinois affiliates are planning to appeal the decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit C
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Dyer Straight: Afghanistan: changing generals in midstream
Gwyn Dyer, a Canadian independent journalist specialising in military affairs, call Afghanistan "VietNam for slow learners".
Sunday, May 24, 2009
More attempted repression on Guadeloupe
Again the French State, with the complicity of key elected officials from Guadeloupe, has used its repressive apparatus against the youth, workers, and people of Guadeloupe.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Gustavo Coronel continues insisting on the indefensible return to the IV Republic...
VHeadline commentarist Carlos M. Pietri writes: In the article "Ten ways Hugo Chavez hurts the United States of America," written by Gustavo Coronel, who has been both lying and bitter about Venezuela and Chavez for at least the last ten years ... he continues insisting on the indefensible return to the IV Republic...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox: "Hope"less in the "Two" Party System by Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan, who ran last fall against Liar Pelosi, is drawing the correct conclusions from her campaign.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Guadeloupe: The Government prepares to amputate the Bino Agreement
The government is preparing to announce a "limited extension" of the wage agreement reach in Guadeloupe.
The edited agreement would cut the preamble characterizing the economy of Guadeloupe as a "plantation economy" and would cut Article 5 charging employers with the ¤ 200 increase in wages "by the end of the period of state aid (36 months) and local aid(12 months).
* "This would result in many more strikes in Guadeloupe,"
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Colombia liquidates Cali unions < Global Justice | CUPE
Unionists i Colombia are defying the central government and the city of Cali at the risk of their lives. Defend their right to a decent living! Defend your own!
Monday, April 6, 2009
proposed Warfield/Dresser Resolution for Israel/Palestine Peace - The Petition Site
Veterans for Peace petition for supprt of the single-state solution, and to stop shipments of outlawed weapons to Israel.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The general strike on Guadeloupe: Update
Received via the ILC, an update to the events in the French Antilles islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. The French state is dragging its feet, and so far one union official has been killed.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Support Net Neutrality | SaveOurNet.ca
Net Neutrality - our ability to create our own content, at websites like OpEdNews - is still under enormous threat.
Friday, January 30, 2009
How Canada Post Censored Union Vids on YouTube :: Mediacheck :: thetyee.ca
Michael Geist describes how Canada Post used American law to take down a union-created video critical of the Canada Post CEO.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Deportations ordered: Critical time for war resisters in Canada | rabble.ca
The Harper government continues to defy the will of Parliament on te fate of resisters.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thoughts on Gaza, from Dialogue Review
Two anti-Zionist Sabras respond to the siege of Gaza.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
The truth about those Hamas rockets
Five years ago, the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction to dupe us into supporting an illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq.
A few days ago, Israel trotted out only an infinitesimally more credible excuse -- the Hamas rockets case -- as justification for its own murderous shock and awe in Gaza, a long-planned campaign perniciously aimed at ousting a "regime" that came to power via popular, democratic vote.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 | Project Censored
Not really censored-as-in-government, more suppressed by the allegedly leftist media.
Monday, December 22, 2008
An open letter to Tarek Fateh, in Seven Oaks Magazine.
The following letter was sent to Tarek Fatah some ten days ago. The response was so flailing and off topic that we felt it was worthwhile to post the original note to him as an open letter, though we have no illusions of generating a coherent response or a change of course. Mr. Fatah's slide to the Right in his case from the NDP to the Liberals, and from opposing Israeli apartheid to collaborating with authorities ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
From Gaza to the Galilee - Worker-to-Worker Solidarity across the Green Line
On December 3, 2008, Sawt el-Amel's Legal Department filed compensation claims on behalf of 13 workers from Gaza in Israel's labour courts.
Early in 2008, Yussef Abu Kameel, a worker from Gaza, contacted Sawt el-Amel by telephone on behalf of a group of workers from Gaza City. All had worked for the same Israeli employer in two carpentry shops in Ramle (central Israel) and Erez (Israeli industrial zone at Gaza border) ...
Thursday, December 4, 2008
blackagendareport.com - African Americans, Peace and the Plight of Palestinians
The speech Sister McKinney would have made if they'd let her out of the country.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Kettle of Hawks
Scahill points out that Obama's foreign-policy team are a bunch of hawks.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
YouTube - Vote Malik Rahim for Congress Dec. 6th / votemalik.com
Youtube video for the Malik Rahim congressional campaign.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Democracy Now! | Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect Obama's New Economic Team & Stimulus Plan
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Amy Goodman interviews Klein, Kuttner and Hudson on the disappointments of Obama's responses to the economic crisis so far.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Education International Help save the life of Farzad Kamangar!
Help save the life of Farzad Kamangar! Iranian Kurdish teacher, sociali worker and teacher's unionist ssentenced to death on no evidence may be hanged within the next few hours.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Massive riot in northwestern China - Los Angeles Times
The Chinese people don't seem too inclined to go along with the Government's plans ...
Friday, October 3, 2008
Jack Layton wins on debate night in Canada
NDP leader Jack Layton dominates the leaders' debate.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
YouTube - Peter Kormos & dedicted union activists assist HERE 2347
This, brothers and sisters, is the man we need for Ontario NDP leader!
Friday, August 29, 2008
NDP Socialist Caucus says Peter Kormos, MPP, should be next Ontario NDP Leader
Socialist Caucus backs Kormos for leader of Ontario NDP
