A Matter of Morals, Not Morales: Respect Bolivia's Democracy!

 

Yet again, the United States appears to be siding with violent right-wing elements to undermine a Latin American democracy.

A Matter of Morals, Not Morales: Respect Bolivia's Democracy!
Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, AlterNet

This is the U.S. on White Privilege

I've decided to not 'do' internal U.S. issues in this blog but sometimes can not. ...An entertaining rant.

By Tim Wise - Znet Commentary

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

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A Blueprint for Dismantling Public Science

And for those who think that Harper's desire to privatizing government is a fantasy of the paranoids among us, check this out.

On June 6, 2008, the Treasury Board released the long-awaited report of the Independent Panel of Experts studying the transfer of federal government laboratories to academia and/or the private sector. Following up on the government's intentions outlined in the 2007 federal budget, the panel identified five "early candidates" for transfer. The first two will be Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Canadian Cereal Research and Innovation Laboratory in Winnipeg, and Natural Resources Canada's Geosciences Laboratory in Ottawa.

A Blueprint for Dismantling Public Science
Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:29:52 GMT

Worth repeating: An open letter to New Democrats, Greens, and progressive Liberals

 

Lorne Browne's article on proportional representation and strategic voting from our February 2007 issue, reproduced below, is as timely as ever.

 

By Lorne Brown Briarpatch Magazine February 2007 Selective co-operation among parties in several dozen constituencies could deny Stephen Harper control of the country in the next election. Much of what I am about to say would be unnecessary if Canada had a system of proportional representation like most countries claiming to be democracies.

Worth repeating: An open letter to New Democrats, Greens, and progressive Liberals

Noam Chomsky

 

‘Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S media.' Noam Chomsky

What's the matter with Canada?

A take on the upcoming  Canadian election as seen from the south in Slate Magazine.  

Last Sunday, news came that Canada—sensible, quiet, some would even say boring Canada—will hold an election on Oct. 14, its third in four years. Those outside the country may wonder what the problem is; in Canada, after all, health care is free, the dollar is strong, same-sex marriage is legal, and the government had the good sense to stay out of Iraq. You might think of Canada as the un-America, where the only debate ought to be whether to spend the country's growing oil wealth on faster snowmobiles, bigger hockey rinks, or Anne Murray box sets.
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Sarah Palin Stares Down the World

Pepe Escobar analyzes Palin's comments in her famous first interview. Chilling and surreal. So what else is new?

The Republican vice presidential nominee vows not to "blink" in the face of U.S. enemies. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 13, 2008

Sarah Palin Stares Down the World

These Are the New Middle Ages, Not a New Order

 

We are entering -- for those keeping track -- the new new, new new world order. President George Bush Snr's world order of multilateral cooperation was embarrassed by Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Pax Americana, rebranded as globalisation under Bill Clinton, was shattered by 9/11. For the past seven years we've been living under the "war on terror" world order paradigm, creating more cleavages than it has healed.

But this time the conditions are very different. The world has stopped waiting for the US - and its next president -- to declare its roadmap for the future. Instead, the other 96% of the planet has decided to move on… more

Tell The Truth

The Elephant In The Room

Towards a Second Cold War?

Noem Chompsky opines in Counterpunch on the Georgia situation, the ironies therein and the larger context.


George Bush, Condoleezza Rica and other dignitaries solemnly invoked the sanctity of the United Nations, warning that Russia could be excluded from international institutions “by taking actions in Georgia that are inconsistent with” their principles. The sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations must be rigorously honored, they intoned – “all nations,” that is, apart from those that the US chooses to attack: Iraq, Serbia, perhaps Iran, and a list of others too long and familiar to mention.

Noam Chomsky: Towards a Second Cold War?

$490 Billion defense road map rollout, blacked out by media

You would think something like a detailed road map of ‘the modernization of the Canadian forces’, at the big fancy 8th Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA) would elicit some sort discussion or analysis from the Canadian media/ chattering class. At the conference, Peter Mackay began to spin links between the need to respond to ‘natural disasters’ and ‘security of the Olympics’ with armed security. The highlight of the conference was the release of Canada's 20-year, $490 billion “Canada First Defense Strategy,”

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Collider's launch may spell end to U.S. lead in science

With the most significant physics installation in the world now located here on the Swiss-French border, employing 9,000 of the world's top physicists, and with Washington having cancelled or scaled down its funding for many of its largest physics initiatives, it is widely felt that only Europe now has the mass of funding able to attract the best minds in the field.

INVASION - A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE - PART 1

The writer Simon Louvish once told the story of a group of Soviets touring the United States before the age of glasnost. After reading the newspapers and watching TV, they were amazed to find that, on the big issues, all the opinions were the same. "In our country," they said, "to get that result we have a dictatorship, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here you have none of that. So what's your secret? How do you do it?" (Quoted, John Pilger, Tell Me No Lies, Random House, 2004, p.9)
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INVASION - A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE - PART 1

coincidence

25%

-The amount the world's energy the U.S. consumes

-The amount of the world's prisoners in U.S. prisons