Winnipeg Sun July 6, 2008

GENEVA — The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail July 4, 2008

This year, July 1 was Order of Canada Day. What a racket. Louder than fireworks. It can’t go to anyone controversial, some howled. Or it ought to be a symbol of unity. And what does this say about Canadian democracy? (Keep reading…)

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The Independent June 2, 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-so-alqaidas-defeated-eh-go-tell-it-to-the-marines-837843.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-so-alqaidas-defeated-eh-go-tell-it-to-the-marines-837843.html (Keep reading…)

June 26, 2008

Tomgram: Nation Institure

Introduction

For those who didn’t happen to notice, perhaps because it wasn’t exactly front-page news in most of the country, NASA’s James Hansen, the man who first alerted Congress to the dangers of global warming 20 years ago, returned to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this week. This time around, he was essentially offering a final warning on the subject. Unless the U.S. begins to act soon, he pointed out, “it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control.” (Keep reading…)

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FrontPageMagazine.com June 18, 2008

I speak of a recent article in Time that explains why eating bugs is good for the environment. (Keep reading…)

17/06/08 “ICH http://www.informationclearinghouse.info “

THIS WEEK, the Prime Minister of Canada made a dramatic statement in Parliament: he apologized to the indigenous peoples of his country for the injustices done to them for generations by successive Canadian governments. (Keep reading…)

June 14, 2008 The Nation

Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare, on CNBC, “Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market.” (Keep reading…)

International Viewpoint June 2008

The current credit crisis is throwing into question the whole of the neoliberal, free market, order that when the post-war boom went into crisis in the mid-1970s, it was eventually resolved in the mid-1980s by a new economic order, neoliberalism. The current crisis has put that order in question, as its main pillars – low inflation, low commodity prices and stability in the international financial markets – are breaking up. (Keep reading…)