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McCain vs Obama on foreign policy
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Israeli Apartheid and “Free Speech”
University of Toronto Department of Acceptable Truths April 1, 2008 To the Members of the University Community: The University’s Department of Acceptable Truths has been asked to consider changes to university policies governing permitted free speech in the light of concerns that have been raised by faculty members, alumni, and wealthy funders. Some of these concerns were expressed in a recent advertisement in the National Post signed by a number of professors, who have noted that they “take offence” at the…
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The unintended consequences of not regulating
I can’t stand how free market ideologues smugly talk about the “unintended consequences” of regulation. Everything has unintended consequences — including the conscious decision not to regulate. Get over it and stop with disingenuous, superior argumentation. This week’s Economist begins with a leader on why fixing the financial system may do more harm than good. In the course of this, they talk about how regulators “are paid less than those they oversee. They know less, they may be less able, they…
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A Memo to John Baird on Carbon Capture and Storage
“It won’t do the job, no one knows if it is safe, and it won’t arrive in time” TO: JOHN BAIRD, Minister of the Environment, Ottawa, Canada courtesy Climate & Capitalism. Dear Mr. Baird: You recently announced that your government will impose tough measures “cut our greenhouse gas emissions an absolute 20% by 2020.” Central to that promise was a proposed regulation requiring that any electrical plants opened after 2012 be designed to use Carbon Capture and Storage, and that CCS…
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Supermarket Cashiers should take stand
Haivens’ “blog from Bologna” posted a “rant about making supermarket cashiers stand.” Here’s an excerpt: Haivens’ posted a picture of supermarket cashier in Europe. As all European cashiers do, they are SITTING. A picture of a supermarket cashier in North America is also posted. She is STANDING. European cashiers, in thousands and thousands of supermarkets, have been sitting for decades. The world as we know it has not ended. The clientele has not vanished. Somehow groceries get bought. Grocery stores and…
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Call to Action: First Nations leaders imprisoned
OCAP Statement in Support of KI and AAFN First Nations. How to write letters to imprisoned indigenous leaders. The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty stands in full support of and in solidarity with the jailed indigenous leaders who have been imprisoned for fighting to protect their lands, and we call for the immediate reversal of the politically motivated sentences recently imposed on the six members of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, as well as Bob Lovelace, co-chief of Ardoch Algonquin First…
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Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence
Courtesy The Real News.
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Caracas contemplates dual currency
In some ways, “21st century socialism” in Venezuela is beginning to follow a trajectory that looks a lot like 20th century socialism. A combination of incompetent macroeconomic policies, as admitted by a Chavez finance ministry official in this report about the contemplated dual currency, and predatory practices by those with market power have led to food shortages, inflation, a swelling underground economy, and other economic ills. To the extent that decentralized, local, participatory democracy is being tried in Venezuela—and it’s a…
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Canadian press gets Basra wrong
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps were declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. last year. Yet it was IRGC Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani who brokered a deal between Badr Organization leader Hadi al-Amiri and Mahadi Army leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, to bring about a cease fire in the Battle of Basra. As Peppe Escobar points out, “the winners are Iran and Muqtada al-Sadr.” Yet the Montreal Gazette ran an article today from the Agence France-Press titled “Iraq PM calls Basra assaults a…
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KI/Ardoch appeals to be heard as one
 Update: This news (below) is wrong. The lawyer for KI and Ardoch has applied for the two cases to be heard as one. The lawyer for the mining companies is probably going to oppose. No dates have yet been set, nor has the court decided on this one way or the other. News, which I am waiting to confirm, that the Ontario Court of Appeals has agreed to hear the appeals in the conviction of Robert Lovelace of Ardoch Algonquin First…
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