Yahoo! News – Klein derided as mean-spirited for comments about handicapped
–It is official. Premier Klein is completely insensitive and ignorant about the people that are suffering in his province. This should not be much of a surprise… people should be outraged.

The Oil for Food Scandal (ZNet Blog)
–Comsky on the Oil for Food nuttiness that was happening before the war in Iraq. 100,000 dead since the end of the war… how many before the war were we responsible for?

Myth of the Liberal Media (ZNet Blog)
–Oh, look an article from Chomsky on the Myth of the Liberal Bias in the Media.

ZNet |Mideast | THE FORGOTTEN DICTATORSHIP: TUNISIA
–Any one heard Tunisia in the corporate press lately. They just “elected” a dictator. You would think there would be outrage in our “liberal biased press”. You would be wrong.

ZNet |Africa | Darfur Crisis
–A little ZNet styled analysis on the Darfur crisis.

rabble columns
–Some words on the up coming election from Scott Piatkowski.

Sierra Club of Canada News Release
–Does Canada move its toxic waste to developing countries? Yes it does. Should we stop? Can we make a convincing argument that sending our waste anywhere else is OK? I do not think so.

SPECIAL REPORT-MEDIA: Alternative and Influential?
–A look at the influence of the alternative media in the US and else where.

SPECIAL REPORT-MEDIA: Alternative and Influential?
–A look at the influence of the popular media.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Aristide ‘wants free elections’
–The deception continues. The news agencies continue to reiterate the official line coming from the whitehouse and is missing the point. Last time Haiti had free elections Aristide won. He would probably win again. The powers that be will not allow this to happen because Aristide is a true populist president and that is bad for business.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | EU leaders sign new constitution
–Kings and queens would be proud at this extravagance. Politics should be of the people. My hope is that the consitiution will have some semblance of democracy.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | French intellectuals assail fashionable author as ‘hollow’
–It is about time that someone said this about Levy.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Pope steps in for his friend Buttiglione
–Get religion out of politics. The fact that the Pope has poked his nose into this should give the Left and the liberals in the Eu enough to say that Buttiglione has an agenda.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study
–Is this much death worth it? Who can say that 100,000 people dead is worth the type of system Iraqis have now? When it is going to lead to people demanding a change?

CBC News: NDP wins provincial byelection in B.C.
–The NDP has won another provincial seat in a byelection in BC. This is a start, now they have to energize the rest of the province. The NDP also have to have a mandate that works that they are going to stick to. The left needs to hold them to account. The people need to know that the politics of the Liberals in their province is not liberal but conservative. This should be fairly straight forward to do. Just cite their record.

Florida’s Computers Have Already Counted Thousands of Votes for George W. Bush
–More from Greg Palast on the vote fraud that is going on in the US.

BBC NEWS | Business | UK report says Linux is ‘viable’
–I had to post this. The UK government has looked at Linux and open source software and said it is a viable alternative to proprietary software. Where is Canada and Canadian Universities on this? Our tax dollars are being wasted propping-up companies like M$ that could be used for more constructive ventures.

Naomi Klein speaks tonight in Fredericton at STU: 7:30 in the George Martin Hall. Come early if you want seats!

Follow the money, or risk squandering billions of public dollars on for-private health care–report
–Policy Alternatives, my favorite policy group, has released a report examining the way the government is wasting our money on private healthcare. There needs to some major effort on the left to include the public in these decisions. For-profit healthcare will lead to wasted public money. It is inevitable.

US Gave Date of War to Britain in Advance, Court Papers Reveal
–If anyone is still in doubt about whether the US was going into Iraq no matter what then here is yet another story on new information. The US gave Britain 5 months warning.

ZNet |Iraq | Adventure Capitalism
–Greg Palast talks about Capitalism and the US economy… kind of.

ZNet |Argentina | The Take
–Naomi Klein talks about her new movie: The Take.