CBC News: Toxins from Goose Bay airbase may be spreading, DND warns
–Bases need to be monitored more closely if there are any suspicians that toxins are reaching the surrounding ecology. There is no reason that these military bases should not be following the most restrictive evironmental policies.

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | Republican star turns target waverers
–The theater that is the US election process. I think the people need to demand more from the federal parties in the US than just hand waving and flashing lights.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Corpse that points the finger of guilt
–There still looks to be colaboration between the Sudanese government army and the Janjaweed and the results are continuing to be more murders. There needs to be more focus on this region. The people who are organizing this need to be stopped.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | ‘Cleansers’ blamed for murders of Sao Paulo homeless
–The murder of the homeless is a vile act and the people of Brazil need to stand united against these attackers and to help protect the most vulnerable of people. The social far-right need to be confronted through education and social programmes or this kind of act will spread.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Schr�der finds reform no walk in the park
–The reforms Schroder is bringing in are going to hurt the people of the country and the pain is going to be felt the closer you are to bottom of the income brackets. He should listen to the people if he is going to pretend that Germany is a democracy and the people are telling him to find another way.

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Adventure playground
–George Monbiot on why Britian is one of the first places the people across Africa look when there seems to be external forces at work against governments.

Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Courting women of influence
—-Why we need gender equality in the court system. Really it is the same reason that we need gender equality everywhere but I think that this example is an important one as it is easier for people to see the concequences if we do not make sure it happens.

AlterNet: Election 2004: Not a Chip off the Old Bloc
–In a continuing effort to examine the other side of what is being said as the RNC I will be posting articles from the Nation Magazine all week. Here is the first one looking at the way the Republicans are modeling themselves and why we should look past the shiny exterior.

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Return to Ground Zero (part 1)
–Some words from the ground in NY from Tom Engelhardt. A good read.

Maritime Union of Australia: General: PNG Strike to disrupt tuna production - 31 August 2004
–Tuna fisheries are on a slowdown as Filipino fisher-people raise awareness over their bad working conditions.

CBC - New Brunswick
–Nurses are preparing for a walkout in NB. Have a look at the reasons why here by down loading and looking at the PDF on this site. They need as much support from the public as we can give them.

ZNet |2004 Election | Anti-Bush Posters
–A look at what some anti-war posters said on the weekend in NY.

BBC NEWS | Health | Britons attack US cloning ban bid
–UK scientists are angry about the US trying to ban cloning world wide. This is a continuation of the US administration trying to put caps on science because of their religous/ideological beliefs.

rabble.ca - in his own words
–More on the Anarchists that are targeted and lied about in the corporate press.

Daily Times - Site Edition
–It seems that some Muslim groups oppose the introduction of Sharia Law in Ontario.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | India tests missile before talks
–No matter who wins the elections there is always the same move to build big weapons to blow things up. It must stop or it will continue to cause conflict.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Chechens vote in ‘farcical’ election
–You have to question the electoral process in Chechnya when the country overwhelmingly wants out of Russia but the person who is going to win the election is the puppet of the Kremlin.

Now for a word from our sponsors | csmonitor.com
–We now have producers of film being ranked at the same level as people who study history for a living in talking about history. The corporate media doesn’t know what reality it belongs in.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Killing of Italian journalist condemned as ‘barbaric’
–Journalists should not be the target no matter what side of the Iraqi conflict you are on. This should be condemned by both sides. The Italians along with everyone else should pull out. The arguement that the US forces need to “finish” the job they started is not one that has any rationality to it.

The Village Voice: CityState: Coming to a Convention Near You: Scary Anarchist II by Sarah Ferguson
–The bad label Anarchists get from the corporate media is unjustified and unwarranted… so why does it continue?

Alternatives : Crisis in Sudan
–Is oil to blame for the crisis in Sudan or is it to blame for the international interest in the crisis in Sudan? Maybe both.

Yahoo! News - IWA, Steelworkers vote to merge, creating largest private-sector union
–Wood and Steel Unions have merged to form the largest Union. We will see if they use their size to effectively fight for better working conditions for the workers.

Massive anti-Bush march greets Republicans on the eve of convention
–The huge rally in NY and the clear message the was shouted by the over 250 thousand protesters. Get Bush Out and Stop the Wars.

ZNet |2004 Election | Hundreds Protest Starbucks Union-Busting Efforts; Organizers Arrested
–Starbucks is in trouble over Union busting. Now there is another reason to avoid the bad coffee at Starbucks. The coffee drinkers should demand that the coffee they get is fair and the people that are making it for them are fairly treated.

maisonneuve :: eclectic curiosity
–Media Scout makes the best point about Parrish and points to the Globe for doing a very poor job covering the issue. If any one read the Globe’s article on why we need missile defence then you should know that it is not worth the paper it is written on.

CANADA: Bird Flu Defeated - At High Cost
–This article raises the question of whether it was factory farming that lead to the dangers from bird flu and not the actual flu itself. If we were not using factory farming would the bird flu even had the potential to destroy the industry and would it be as much of a concern for public safety? We have not seen the right questions being raised in the corporate media over the issue of factory farming.

POLITICS: U.N. Rejects Private Peacekeepers
–It is a no brainer that the UN would reject private peacekeepers. There is no oversight to private for-profit armies. There is no excuse for people making money off war.

IMF - News article
–This is the International Meatalworkers’ Federation. In Brazil companies have just passed a pact that they will not allow slave or forced labour within the country. This is a major move forward for the industry.

Economist.com | The Buttonwood column
–A look at teh American Economy and why it is not doing as well as some people think it is. This view is from the economic right so at the end it says that it is OK that the economy is not doing well because when you have faith in the market you are always thinking of the better times ahead…. However, the better times are never for the poor, labour, or the student population, but for the investor. Have a read.

Yahoo! News - Green Party leader defeats challengers who say he’s too conservative
–This is rich. Harris has won a within parry vote to stay leader of the Greens in Canada. The message is that the people who are supporting the Green Party in Canada should be people from the right not the Left and that the people who were in the Greens that care about Labour and care about the environment need to join the NDP. The NDP has a much better and much more sound approach to the environment than the Greens.

Yahoo! News - Labour union finds Canadians worried about what they’ll live on in retirement
–People are worried about how they are going to make it through retirement without some action by the government on pension plans.

rabble news
–Naomi Klein for the weekend. Protests are going to be big for the RNC.

ZNet |Haiti | Engineering the Overthrow of Democracy
–This is a must read if you are at all interested in what is going on in Haiti and the Canadian involvement in the latest coup.

The Dominion: Canada’s Grassroots National Newspaper
–The new Dominion is out. Download it, print it, read it, and leave it lying around so others can read it. It is part of the effort of Canadians to get the story of the people to the people.

CBC News: Parrish sticks by ‘idiot’ comment
–Good for Parrish. She has hit it on the head. We do not elect our MPs to sit quiet, we elect them to shout for us. Other MPs should be joining in! The missle shield is not something that can be discussed in a civilized way because the plan is to wage war against civilization. We need to express our outrage and back up Parrish. She is not the only one who thinks this plan is idiotic!