BBC NEWS | Europe | Nationwide strike cripples Italy
–The Unions are out in a nation wide strike in Italy. This is the way things are changed.

Yahoo! News - Canada to boost defence and security commitments during Bush visit
–Canadians do not want to be part of the US empire. We should be helping peace and pushing for global responses for problems. This means working within the UN and not backing US unilateralism. COME OUT AND PROTEST

ZNet |Electoral Politics | 2004 Elections
–A few words from Noam Chomsky on the elections in the US, what it means, and where we are going from here. Come out and protest US Hegemony.

rabble columns
–Canada should be at the peace table, not helping Bush destroy the world. Linda McQuaig from Rabble.ca.

Polaris Institute - Public Service Project
–The Polaris Project (my kind of defence thinktank) is condemning the way big business is pushing for large defence projects. Come out and protest missile defence and let your voice be heard.

rabble news - everyone’s a critic
–Bush is the most isolated person in the world. It is not democracy when the leaders of the country will not acknowledge protests.

BCGEU: Latest government records privatization deal a …..
–We are exposed to the US in this latest privatization. We should not allow such things to happen.

POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Cons Hop On Extreme Right’s Anti-UN Drive
–Anti-UN drive in the US. Jim Lobe tells us all about the neo-cons and what they have planned for the world. Canada wants to be paired with this? Come out and protest.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Alabama clings to segregationist past
–Segregation is still part of Alabama, through voting. Do the people in this state realize what that means? Who are the people that get away with pushing such a crazy thing? The right-wing in the US is insane.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Ukraine’s leaders in poll climbdown
–More from the Ukrainian elections.

CBC News: Bush visit spurs questions over Canadian involvement in missile defence
–Questions over missile defence? There is no question that we should oppose it. Come out and protest our involvement today at noon.

CBC News: Tommy Douglas crowned ‘Greatest Canadian’
–The most left leaning person in the group just won the greatest Canadian on CBC. It is a silly competition but I would be foolish not to push the point the day that Bush comes to town.

CBC News: Security, trade on agenda for Bush visit
–Details of some of the disruptions that the arival of Bush is causing.
Bush is coming. Do you have your placard ready?

Stop Star Wars
–Sign the petition and pass it on. Stop the War, stop missile defence.

Why I’ll be on the streets of Ottawa
–Come and join us on the streets of Fredericton on Tuesday at noon, down by City Hall. It will be an information gathering to tell politicians how we feel about missile defence and the war in Iraq.

ZNet |Iraq | BBC and Fallujah
–Coverage of Fallujah on the BBC and how people can have an effect on the way news in reported.

ZNet |Europe | How the US and Britain are intervening in Ukraine’s elections
–The US and the UK (and Canada is bouncing on this cart as well) is interfering in the Ukraine elections. Have a read of how.

Pro-Bush Think-Tank Claims Climate Change May Be Good
–Only in the US can a thinktank like this one get any good news coverage at all. The Observer takes a look at a nutty right-wing “think” tank saying that Climate Change is a good thing (but that it is not happening anyway). Who are these people?

rabble columns
–Welcome to Canada, Mr. President by Rick Salutin of Rabble.ca.

rabble columns
–Naomi Klein on: Smoking while Iraq burns. A good read, as always.

rabble news
–How to greet the guy next door: Heather Mallick from Rabble.ca. We shall be in the streets on Tuesday at noon.

CBC News: Canada Post says possible strike won’t stop holiday mail
–News from Canada Post and the strike that is about to start.

U.S: Crop Testing Rules Menace Food Supply, Say Critics
–A look at public opinion about GE crops. The people have spoken, but no one seems to be listening.

TRADE: US to Face Severe WTO Sanctions
–The US is going to hit a sanctions wall at the WTO. Isn’t it funny how Neo-Liberal rules enacted by the US can now come back and bite them.

POLITICS: U.S. Has Zero Credibility Among Muslims - Pentagon Panel
–Jim Lobe looks at the credibility gap the US is falling into.

News
–There are too many children in jail in Britain say the UN.

News: Bhopal 20 years on
–The world has failed the people in Bhopal (BBC headline). I tend to agree.

News:Tories need to copy the Republicans, says Duncan Smith
–This is scary. The Tories in Britain think that they should copy the Republicans and “return” to conservative “values”. Explain how the Tories are not conservative? If they mean that they are more tollerant of others than the Repulican masses then a shift right socially for the Tories is a worry.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock
–Of all the things that happen in the west bank it is the picture of Israeli Police making a Palestinian play his violin that has finally sparked outrage.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Swiss voters back stem cell research
–The Swiss have backed stem-cell research.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Peace gives hope in land of cattle and guns
–A little look at life in the Sudan.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sarkozy promises truth and glory
–A little look at the rise of the new centre-left candidate in France.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Threat to split Ukraine in two as crisis grows
–The Ukraine my split along that provincial divide that separates the workers from the liberals.

CBC News: Dipping oil may contain dangerous bacteria
–A warning to those who have Citrus Infusion Dipping Oil. It is being recalled. I do not even know what this is, but the warning was put out by the CBC.