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Bringing Palestinian Justice to Canadian Courts
Typical activity in Bi’lin, PalestinePalestinian village sues Canadian contractorsBy Zosia Bielski / July 10, 2008 They Want Their Land The Palestinian village of Bil’in in Israel’s Occupied West Bank has launched a lawsuit against two Canadian construction companies accusing them … Continue reading
More Evidence of the Amerikkkan Police State
The FBI’s plan to “profile” MuslimsBy Juan Cole / July 10, 2008 It’s unconstitutional, un-American — and it might hurt, rather than help, the FBI’s effort to stop real acts of terror. The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change … Continue reading
Assurances Economists Gave Made No Sense
A Work Force Betrayed: Watching Greed Murder the EconomyBy Paul Craig Roberts / July 9, 2008 The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for US government, and a million dollar cap on executive pay … Continue reading
Among the Topics That Cannot Be Discussed
It’s the Oil, stupid!By Noam Chomsky / July 8, 2008 The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions … Continue reading
The Biggest NAFTA Problem : the Assumed Commonality of Interests
The New Geography of Trade: North America Doesn’t ExistBy Laura Carlsen / July 8, 2008 About every six months or so, the media provide a fleeting show of North American unity. Whether on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean, the … Continue reading
Don’t Ignore Those Strange, Dissonant Words
Lies, kidnapping and a mysterious laptopBy Johann Hari / July 7, 2008 You have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc thugs Sometimes you hear a stray sentence on the news that makes you realise you have been … Continue reading
The Earth: Love It or Lose It, Part V
Two Potential Components of MicrogenerationBy Paul Spencer / The Rag Blog / July 7, 2008 Microgeneration may or may not present much of a solution for our increasing energy deficit; but it’s still fun, and it’s not counter-productive as a … Continue reading
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The Pork Barrel Thrives in This Administration
CEO of Firm That Signed Controversial Iraq Oil Deal Longtime Bush, Cheney AdviserBy Jason Leopold / July 6, 2008 Ray Hunt, the Texas oil man who landed a controversial oil production deal with Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government, has enjoyed close … Continue reading
Suicide : The Military’s Shameless Cover-Up
Hidden Casualtiesby Eric Ruder / July 5, 2008 A year and a half ago, Scott Eiswert, a specialist in the Tennessee Army National Guard, returned from Iraq, only to face an escalating battle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). When he … Continue reading
Just Another Day in Amman or Baghdad
Cold Shouldersby Kathy Kelly / July 6, 2008 Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I’ve regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out of her native Iraq four years ago by terrifying death … Continue reading
Time to Get Over the American Superiority Complex
Why I’m Not PatrioticBy Matthew Rothschild / July 2, 2008 (In memory of George Carlin.) It’s July 4th again, a day of near-compulsory flag-waving and nation-worshipping. Count me out. Spare me the puerile parades. Don’t play that martial music, white … Continue reading
Ninety-Nine Percent of Iraq’s Budget for Walls
After all, the electricity isn’t that important, right? And we are especially fond of assassination from 10,000 miles away, thus reducing the numbers of US troop deaths and casualties. How humane, how civilised …. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
