Canadian Dimension magazine, November/December 2008 issue

Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism

by Viviane Namaste
Women’s Press, 2005 (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, November/December 2008 issue

Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, November/December 2008 issue

October 7 will grimly mark the eighth anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan. As the death toll mounts daily, reaching unprecedented levels this year, a sober assessment of Canada’s mission of folly is required. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, November/December 2008 issue

Indigenous lifestyles are traditionally more linked to land and water than those of the Canadian population at large. Rural communities, especially in the north and west, still depend on country (wild) foods and forestry for livelihood and medicine. Many depend on the land for spirituality and for socio-cultural reasons. From this perspective, industrial pollution has a larger impact on Aboriginal communities. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, November/December 2008 issue

Does it surprise us that some blogger deliberately distorted a column Lesley Hughes wrote in 2002 in his zealous efforts to embarrass her by proving that she is an anti-Semite? Hardly. Bloggers can lie. Some are desperate to be noticed. And they are unaccountable to any publication or organization. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, November/December 2008 issue

The pundits are very busy these days looking for scapegoats among the swindlers, liars and manipulators who by their greed and excesses have caused the meltdown that led to this mother of all stock market crashes. (Keep reading…)

Truthdig Nov 4, 2008

It’s time to gush! Later for the analysis of all the hard choices faced by our next president, Barack Obama, but for now, let’s just thrill, unabashedly, to the sound of those words. Heck, both he and we deserve a honeymoon, at least for a few paragraphs of this column. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension Nov 1, 2008

Canadian resource companies are under fire in Peru. On October 21, Cesar Zuniga, the president of the Achuar indigenous group FENAP, told a local radio: “We, as indigenous people, reject the Canadian company Talisman. We do not want them working in our territory. We want the Peruvian state to respect us, and the armed forces to stop helping the company.” (Keep reading…)

Financial Times
October 28, 2008

Give credit where credit is due: Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business was right. On February 20 2008, I wrote a column entitled “America’s economy risks the mother of all meltdowns” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d19518c-df0d-11dc-91d4-0000779fd2ac.html , based on his analysis of the 12 steps to disaster. Alas, not only has the US taken those steps, but it has also – with help from others, including the UK – dragged the world behind it. (Keep reading…)

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Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 151 October 30, 2008

Nathan Rao

In these difficult times, those of us on the radical Left have learned to be grateful for tender mercies. And so it goes with the results of the October 14th federal election. A few bits of good news immediately come into view: the hard-Right crew around Stephen Harper was denied a majority government; and the main beneficiaries of the majority rejection of the Conservatives were not the centre-Right Liberals, whose crisis continues unabated, but rather the nominally social-democratic NDP, the sovereignist Bloc Québécois and the vaguely left-liberal Greens. (Keep reading…)