Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | British soldiers ‘ordered to give Iraqis a good kicking’
–The abuse trail continues to clime the ladder of authority. It should go to the people that made it policy. We should not stand for people making decisions like these and enforcing them from the top down.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Global poverty targeted as 100,000 gather in Brazil
–The World Social forum actually gets coverage in the mass media, albeit it is the Guardian.

The Citizens Press: About
–The “about” for the Citizen’s Press was ugly yesterday… have a look at it today.

The Citizens Press
–The About and publishing information has been posted by our god-like web guru at the Citizen’s Press. Have a peek, see what you think, and then write something. We are accepting submission… from anyone.

ZNet |Iraq | Iraq Election Analyisis
–The people that know what is going on in Iraq tell about what is going on in Iraq. Why wouldn’t you read this?

ZNet |Mainstream Media | A Demobilized Press in a Global Free-Fire Zone
–Where is my press? Engelhardt write on the desert that is the corporate media right now.

RIM: We’re Canadian, so bug off
–We should say this a lot more to American patents.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: The Varied Leftisms of South America
–The different “lefts” in South America.

POLITICS-U.S.: Bush’s Delicate Dilemma on Darfur
–Jim Lobe on war crimes in Darfur. The truth about how the world deals with these problems has got to come out. The people think their governments are helping, but they are not.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush ‘to ask for more war funds’
–More war funds? Bush is destroying the US economy… along with the world.

Education: Oxford aims to compete with US rivals by cutting British students
–Ever think that the people who pay the taxes should get the schooling over other rich nations? Let the poor in, bring in people to educate from countries that do not have good systems in, but do not make room for more people from other rich countries with their own school system…

News
–The DPRK has cut its already small food rations… to facilitate a growing capitalist micro-economy. Lose/lose for the people.

News: Mass suicide bid at Guantanamo
–The situation is so dire at Guantanamo that the inmates were going to try a mass suicide. This cannot continue. This will be as big an embarrassment as the Japanese Internment during the second world war.

News: US and UK ‘ignore torture by Iraqi police’
–The torture continues in Iraq but now it is mostly carried out by the new “Iraqi police force”.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Squatters sit tight as land revolution is put to the test in Venezuela
–Redistrobution of land to the farmers in Venezuela. No wonder the US is upset at them. Sounds good to me. Why should farmers have to rent common land from private business?

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Straw emollient on Iran rift after US talks
–Straw can play down the rift between Europe and the US all he wants but people know there is a problem. These are the people who brought us Iraq. We should not be listening to them agian.

Stanford Center for Internet and Society
–For those of you interested in copyright law: Have a look at this case over “doodles”. Anything that is “doodled”, it says, should be copyrighted for 95 years… I bet they are not talking about small business doodles.

US-Cda-Missile-Defence
–Oh, this is classic. This article amounts to “some person said that is probably not what Bush meant when he said that”. When is news going to demand more from sources? Is this what journalism has come to: taking quotes from un-named sources who do not know anything? We do not care if the anti-democracy forces in Washington think “we look stupid” because we think about things. It is contradictory.

CBC News: Calls for investigation into allegations Saskatchewan money misappropriated
–Taking money from the poor. Not really the best way to leave your mark on the world.

CBC News: New U.S. legislation aims to keep border closed to Canadian cattle
–Non-Tarif barriers to trade. It is too bad that poor countries cannot play this game. Canada needs to look to other markets.

CBC News: Bush pressured Martin over missile plan: report
–Do we live in a democracy or not? Who does our PM answer to: the people of the US or the people of Canada?

video of police attack on york university protest : Thunderbay IMC
–Check out the police violence against protesters at York University in this movie. Why isn’t this in the news. Extreme use of force? I think so.