Annual cross-Canada festival brings together Art and Labour

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue (Keep reading…)

‘Mayday’ March issue

Imagine a world in which labour unions, civil rights and public schools have been banished, where women have been removed from the labour force, where biblical law has replaced the secular code, and where a monistic totalitarian ideology has supplanted democratic pluralism. Imagine a world where being gay is punishable by death, where anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism, and blind obedience to a cult of authority are wedded to a primitive, infantile, dependent individual mentality. Imagine, further, a world in which an unrestrained, rapacious corporatism is inextricably commingled with, and sanctioned by, divine law, and where, finally, a blood-drenched aesthetic of global apocalyptic violence and doom is not merely the national obsession – but the national goal. (Keep reading…)

[http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/author.html] August 24,2007

Ordinary investors and people in general will have to get accustomed to hearing a lot about financial terms they never heard before, such as the subprime mortgage market, aggressive underwriting, asset securitization, repackaged loans, subprime loans, “no-doc” loans, adjustable rate mortgage interest rate adjustment (ARM) loans, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), asset backed securities, mortgage-backed securities, closed-end second-lien loans, subprime second-lien loans, alternative-A (Alt-A) mortgage loans, piggyback loans, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP),…etc. (Keep reading…)

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[http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/author.html] January 14, 2008 (Keep reading…)

From: http://www.sinkswatch.org/Sinkswatch.org. Oct. 7, 2004 http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_durban_declaration.041007.htm (Keep reading…)

From: Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #918, Aug. 2, 2007 http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_commentary_on_fluoride.070801.htm — (Keep reading…)

The Nation, 31 July 2007

The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private soldiers working for Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy and others provide security services against military-level threats, and they regularly engage in combat. (Keep reading…)

The Gazette June 03, 2007

The Philippines is a not a “vibrant, thriving democracy” and the federal government should review Canada’s ties with the Pacific island nation, a group of Montreal observers who witnessed the country’s mid-term elections said yesterday. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail May 11, 2007

In 2001, I spent a chatty weekend in England with British academics and policy wonks. It often felt like a Tony Blair impersonators’ convention. “I know what you mean,” said a British reporter: “Shallow enthusiasm.” (Keep reading…)

MNN Mohawk Nation News MNN. April 14, 2007.

Indigenous people everywhere - watch out! Is this more of Canada’s “might is right” mentality. Or have the military, police, RCMP, secret service and government bureaucrats become “guns for hire” by the multinational corporations? Are they all under the same corruption that is going on in the RCMP? (Keep reading…)