Archive for July, 2008
No Marx for Winnipeg Mural
Chris Webb, Thursday, July 31st, 2008, 3 Comments »
Canada Needs to Abandon Failed Model of World Trade Talks
Chris Webb, Thursday, July 31st, 2008, 1 Comment »
Press Release from Council of Canadians
Palestinian Villages Launch Lawsuit Against Canadian Companies
Chris Webb, Thursday, July 31st, 2008, 9 Comments »
Letter from Bil’in’s Popular Committee
Dear friends,
As you may already know, the village of Bil’in recently announced the launch of an unprecedented legal action against two Canadian companies, Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc., charging them with war crimes. The case has been filed in the Quebec Superior Court in Montreal, Canada.
Haaretz Editor Refuses to Retract Israel Apartheid Statements
Chris Webb, Thursday, July 31st, 2008, 5 Comments »
Haaretz editor and board member Danny Rubinstein does not retract his categorization of Israel as an “apartheid state” before the UN. He claims many at Haaretz agree.
Mohawks say OPP Commissioner used mob tactics
Chris Webb, Wednesday, July 30th, 2008, 2 Comments »
MNN. July 20, 2008.
The death penalty has been abolished in Canada. Julian Fantino has been trying to do an end run around this. Last June 29th 2007 Fantino pronounced an extra judicial death sentence on Mohawk Shawn Brant of Tyendinaga. He has used the police forces to threaten Indigenous people. He is trying to provoke us to commit violent acts in self-defense
to give him the excuse he wants to kill us.
A People’s History of Sports
Chris Webb, Tuesday, July 29th, 2008, No Comments »
It’s hard to find sports commentary, or any sporting event, that isn’t soaked in a pseudo patriotism and patriarchal violence. We all know that the game is largely financed by big-business who care more about their logo glaring at us from the field than the goals scored or shots taken. So when you listen to radical sports commentator Dave Zirin speak, try and appreciate what he’s up against in a sports industry that is the synthesis of big-business, machismo, and reactionary politics.
If Socialism Fails: The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism
Ian Angus, Monday, July 28th, 2008, No Comments »
From the first day it appeared online, the masthead of Climate and Capitalism has carried the slogan “Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way.”
Canada to increase troops in Afghanistan
Canadian Dimension, Sunday, July 27th, 2008, 1 Comment »
The China View news service reports that Canadian Foreign Minister David Emerson made his first visit to Afghanistan on Saturday, declaring that “Canada has had 2,500 troops here in Afghanistan. It could expand to 2,700.” He did not say when the new 200 troops would be deployed to Afghanistan, but other sources suggest the troops will arrive in conjunction with the modified Griffon helicopters. Ottawa Citizen defence columnist David Pugliese writes that 64 CH-146 Griffon helicopters will be fitted with infrared systems and door-mounted mini-guns at a cost of $25.9 million. The first Griffon’s are scheduled to arrive in November, so one can expect the 200 new troops to arrive before or with them.
Wal-Mart in pay deals with Chinese unions
Canadian Dimension, Saturday, July 26th, 2008, No Comments »
(By Tom Mitchell for the Financial Times, July 24). Wal-Mart, the US retail giant known for fending off organised labour in its home market, has completed collective bargaining agreements with unions in two Chinese cities.
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Vincent Navarro
Canadian Dimension, Friday, July 25th, 2008, No Comments »
(Source: Progressive Summer University of Catalonia) Reading Chomsky is perhaps one of the most refreshing and revitalizing activities I can think of. I am interested to hear what he will have to say on Obama’s Afghanistan policy. Here is Noam Chomsky interviewed by Vincent Navarro. at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 13, 2008. Vincent Navarro is Professor of Public Policy at the Pompeu Fabra University, and The Johns Hopkins University.
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