Socialist Review: Noam Chomsky speaks to Ian Rappel about resisting the G8
–The ubiquitous Noam Chomsky has some things to say about the G8. It is all about giving money to the rich and letting the poor and the future pay for it.

Vancouver Sun: Council rejects Wal-Mart
–Wal Mart has been rejected by a local government. What are the chances that something like this would catch on?

Socialist Voice: Time for Labour to Act in Defense of Medical Care: Supreme Court Decision Opens the Door to Deeper Attacks
–An editorial from the people of the Socialist Voice about the current state of HealthCare in Canada. Worth a read.

No To Health Privatisation – Keep The NHS Public
–You could re word this article and make it about the Canadian Healthcare system. The same measures are being followed by the Liberal government.

Corporations Grope for Increasing Portion of Public Water Supply
–Corporations are getting giddy over the prospects of owning our water supply. I really do not like the idea of small or large corporations running our water.

Panel Rejects Nuclear Industry Claim, Affirms Radiation Link to Cancer
–New study finds that radiation is linked to cancer! Wow, this changes everything. No more plutonium baths for me! Can you believe that this might actually have an effect on the way that the governments of the world handle radioactive material? What are they not doing now that we should know about?

Great Lakes diversion limits water down Canada’s rights, critics say – Yahoo! News
–Canada’s rights over its own water supply were flushed yesterday.

Summit of Caribbean Nations Launch Petrocaribe in Venezuela
–The launch of a new hydrocarbon treaty with the CARICOM nations. Chavez is, once again, at the front of what looks to be a rather good deal.

Venezuela Rejects CIA, But Opens Doors to FBI & DEA
–A quick look at the history of the attacks waged on Cuba by the US from inside Venezuela.

rabble columns: The U.S. – a world leader in hypocrisy: by Jerry West
–Jerry West takes a look at the US’ torture policy for the world and relates it to the US’ torture policy for itself. Can you guess if they are the same?

in their own words: Canada needs a national strategy for the future
–Duncan Cameron takes a look at the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and their constant attack on the public services in Canada. This group wants to take away the Canadian welfare state and remove all barrier to integration with the US. Not exactly my idea of good reform.

DIRELAND: THE MAN WHO WOULD DESTROY PBS
–The continued destruction of public broadcasting in the US.

ModBlog – Dear Kitty: USA: Women’s health suffers under welfare reform
–Dear Kitty has a colection of reports that point out the damage the current welfare reforms (read: attacks on the welfare system) are having on women in the US. This is the wrong way for welfare to go.

WOMEN: 12 Colombian Nobel Peace Nominees All Too Familiar with War
–Columibian peace activists are amoung nearly 1000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Spanish MPs approve gay marriages
–Social reform is on the march around the world. It is great to see countries upholding their own rules in spite of religious conservatism.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | WHO says Aids drug target unlikely to be hit
–Once again it is pointed out that the patents on drugs upheld by the US and the rest of the Western countries is causing the deaths of millions of people.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | One in six countries facing food shortage
–The effects of our climate changing is that even more people are going to be without food than before. The answer to this is not “development” in the way that the neo-liberals mean development. The solution is to focus on the causes of climate change and to focus the economy and services on the people that are in need.

CBC New Brunswick – Soldiers not deliberately sprayed: Graham
–Bill Graham is a fool. Of-course they were not sprayed deliberately but that is hardly the point. The point is that they deliberately did not protect those that might be sprayed by accident.

CBC New Brunswick – NB Power sees wind in its future
–The government wants more private industry to invest in “green” energy in NB. The question is why not the province?

CBC News: Edmonton police investigate attacks on gay men
–Alberta is fast becoming the most intolerant place in Canada. It is leading the way towards violence against minorities.

A glance at history reveals that Buddhist organizations have not been free of the violent pursuits so characteristic of religious groups. In Tibet, from the early seventeenth century well into the eighteenth, competing Buddhist sects engaged in armed hostilities and summary executions. In the twentieth century, in Thailand, Burma, Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, Buddhists clashed with each other and with nonBuddhists. In Sri Lanka, armed battles in the name of Buddhism are part of Sinhalese history.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Canada approves gay marriage
–It has finally gone through. Same Sex partnerships are no longer second class relationships. The right of choice is a beautiful thing.