Shameless in Iraq
–Naomi Klein: A must read.

A Pitiful Occasion for the People
–Robert Fisk: always a good read.

CBC News:Layton renews call for electoral reform
–Election reform. It should be the first words out of Layton’s mouth… and it will be.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US recalls ex-soldiers for duty
–It has begun. The calling back of the poor to fight the rich’s battles. The BBC is not helping with this propaganda piece.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Court orders changes to West Bank wall
–The court is the only protection of a lot of things these days. If only the governments of the world would listen to the people who are suffering. This is a small victory for the Palestinians but the fact that the wall is continuing is a loss. We need to stand up to this new apartheid.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Vatican birth control policy spurned
–The Catholic Church needs to get on side with this. There are still too many people who look to the church for advice on health matters and if they are not preaching what is known in science then a lot of people are going to be harmed.

HEALTH-AFRICA: Pregnant Women Beware
–Many women still dying from child birth in Africa.

CUPE determined to resist concessions and defend free collective bargaining
–The right to strike is in the balance. There needs to be public understanding about why this is important. Without it there is no way to protect the workers for the uncaring hand of the market.

Trade treaty ‘chill’: New Brunswick abandons public auto insurance in face of trade treaty threats
–This is bad news for NB. The Lord government has spent months looking for any reason to not implement Public Insurance and now it has found one. It is still not a very good one. Have a read. CCPA.

AxisofLogic/ World News
–The US has spent a lot of Iraqi money on the war. It seems it might be a little more from Iraq. How bad is it that the wealth that should belong to the Iraqi people keep funding their own destruction.

AxisofLogic/ World News
–Scientists enraged with Bush’s anti-science stance. This needs to happen in more countries than just the US. Scientists are workers too.

Venezuela Journalists, Priest, and Chavez Supporters Attacked by Opposition
–More violence against Chavez supporters in Venezuela. Chavez better win this confidence vote.

Shameless in Iraq
–Naomi Klein

A Pitiful Occasion for the People
–Robert Fisk

Yahoo! News - Layton could play his desired “central role” in minority Liberal government
–Don’t move the party right to satisfy the Liberals, Jack. We need to keep a progressive voice and we need to be loud about it. The public has spoken.

Yahoo! News - Harper puts brave face on Tory defeat, vows to fight for accountability
–Enough of this slitting the country language… the west, Quebec… we need a pan-Canadian party… and we have found it in the NDP. The only pary to gain seats across the board … we just need some support in Quebec…. but some of the Left is taken up by Bloc members.

rabble news
–The right comes crumbling down. Harper will not see the light, as they say.

RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: AIDS Orphans Turn to Streets for Survival
–Cambodian AIDS orphan have moved to the streets. This is disasterous.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Left celebrates after Berlusconi’s coalition defeated in stronghold
–The Left is on the move even in Italy. Get out of the way Burlusconi!

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Supreme court blow for Bush on Guant�namo
–Rights finally arrive for Guantanamo prisoners. Took long enough. I just hope that this means that the other prison sites around the world will get the same.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Angry Chirac puts Bush in his place
–I love the French. Chirac has put Bush in his place following a few words of support for Turkey. This is great stuff.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Turkish hostages freed in Iraq
–The pseudogovernment has taken control of Saddam… and Iraq.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Tanks raid Gaza after fresh salvo
–Rockets are htting Israel so the tanks have rolled back into Gaza.

CBC News:Martin ready for minority ‘challenge’
–Minority government… the NDP should have done better than 19 seats with 15% of the vote… but there is always next time.

CBC News: Popular vote numbers tell the tale
–It is called a shift left. Even with the strategic vote taking votes away from the NDP, they still gained in numbers over the last election. Do people see that Martin is not as left as he should be…. or is it the protest vote went left? I think that it is a combination of both. People hav seen what the Liberals have failed to do, what the Conservatives have promised to do, and they have answered by voting NDP.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US hands over power in Iraq
–The US administration have appointed a new government early in Iraq. It just goes to show who has the say in what goes on. in a real democracy it takes a long time to change governments… however, if someone else it pulling the strings and it doesn’t matter what the “government” does then it is quite easy to shuffle things around. Iraq will have “full sovereignty” to do what ever the US tells it to do.

Yahoo! News - Families, tourists, activists join to celebrate gay pride parade in Toronto
–Gay Pride in Toronto. The pary continued through the afternoon and evening to end pride week.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Close call in Canadian elections
–Canada hits the world news. This election is going to be interesting. Get out and vote.

CBC News:Union protest slows Canada-U.S. border traffic
–If you give people an increase in things to do and dangers on their job then a pay raise is supposed to accompany that increase. These are the people protecting our borders, we need to treat them fairly.

News
–Pro-weastern president elected in Serbia. Keep a close eye on the changes and happenings in this country over the next year.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Chirac leads resistance as Bush courts Nato allies
–France has put its foot down again abou the use of NATO troops in Iraq. i just hope that it stays down. There is no sense in extending NATO beyond what it is already. The UN should be in Iraq not the “peace makers”.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Scientists say watching TV hastens puberty
–Light and radiation accelerates puberty…. again, one wonders about the science in these articles, but it is interesting to consider. Something has to be driving the trend we are seeing in the young these days.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Mobiles cut sperm count, says report
–Yet another reason to not use cell phones. i am not sure how much stock I put in this but it is rather interesting to concider.

OneWorld.ca - Ahead of UN Meeting, Group Highlights Contemporary Slavery
–Anti-slavery group highlights that the practice of using people to do forced labour still goes on.

rabble news
–Rabble.ca has come out in support for the NDP. Not really shocking.