–The removal of people and troops by Israel from Gaza does not mean that the people of Gaza will stop being repressed.

–More detail below on the new “plan”. I see no plan. What I see is a bunch of people who own big industry looking towards “clean” technologies that will make them rich. This is not a way to do anything worthwhile.

–The US has its own plan for cutting greenhouse gasses… it is called doing nothing and pretending it is a plan.

–Pictures on the crisis in Niger. It is still a problem and many of us are still ignoring it. More pressure is needed on the government to help out these people.

–You heard it here. Echinacea does not work. Take the sugar instead, it tastes better.

–I especially like this quote:

The report is expected to propose an insurance plan paid for by all taxpayers andassisted by the government.

Paid by taxes and the government? Where else does the government get its money?

These theses were first published in February 1984 in issue 19 of Le Communiste the french language journal of the Internationalist Communist Group.

–This is ridiculous. I did not think that you could get any worse for ambiguous language than “the war on terror” but they have done it. Now the Bush Administration is going to start talking about

“a global struggle against the enemies of freedom”, and of the need to use all “tools of statecraft” to defeat them.”

“At the same time, however, we must bring all of the tools of statecraft, economic influence and private enterprise to bear in this war.

In the veiled attempt to re-organize their imperialism to include attacks on anyone they like they have reduced their specificity of rhetoriceven further. The blatent introduction of private capitalist interests into the imperialist’s rhetoric and the take-up of it by the media is very disturbing.

This combination of religious, economic, and social ideology into the rhetoric of growing the empire and spreading the US elites ideals for life are something that we have to take very seriously. It shows that these elites actually think that they can sell what they are doing as some grand vision of a utopian capitalist world.

–This is funny. If you replace right-wing for leftist and US and UK for Cuba and Venezuela then you might have the quote saying something true. However, as it stands right now there is no truth to the idea that Cuba and Venezuela are trying to install anything in Latin America. This movement left is coming from the people… from the working people of the countries who have had enough of the neo-liberalism that has bankrupted their countries and made their lives worse. Populist and leftist government really do not need to lend a hand, nor should they. Revolution comes from below, not above.

–Some words of dissent from dissidentvoice.org about Haiti and the new push by the people against the imperialism of the elite capitalists.

–A look at some workers struggles in Latin America, the US, and Canada. The struggle for workers’ rights continue.

–More analysis on the state killing of the Brazilian electrician in the UK Jean Charles de Menezes. The media is backing it but the people are upset. We must turn to other news sources if we are to get a real picture of what the state is doing. They are killing innocent people and trying to give excuses. There is no excuse for killing innocent people. None.

–An indepth look into the mis-leadership in the BC NDP. The leadership have lost their way and it is up to the membership to bring them back to working class demands. The NDP lost its support and did not win the election because it failed to push an agenda that the workers could get behind. Instead they decided to go after the same group the Liberals and the Conservatives, and the Greens go after: the so-called Middle Class. You cannot win if you are fighting over the same slice and not paying attention to the rest of the pie.

–Finally the AFL-CIO has taken a stand on the Iraq war. Too bad it will be seen as a move by the leadership to undercut the headline of the union splitting.

–Financial woes in the US. There seems to be some problems on the horrizon for the US economy because of its outlandish spending habits. Just think of what could be done with 700Billion public funds… Healthcare, food, shelter, clothing, social services… the list goes on and on…

–The Doonsebury Strip… the one that was pulled from some news papers in the us… is available here for your viewing pleasure. It is funny.

–A classic management trick of turning uneducated, un-unionizes workers (managers in this case) against the union employees. The union should approach these employees and offer them to become part of the union and demand wange and benefit increases of their own. If they want to work then they should help the unionized workers get a fair deal.

–The leaders of the union at the UPM plant are not doing their jobs informing their workers of the situation. There needs to be clear and correct information about the nature of work. If the unions are at odd something is not right. The New Brunswick Building Construction and Trades Council is not doing it right either if it is going to the police instead of talking to the leaders of the UMP union. It is about solidarity and it has to work both ways.

–Once again Parrish hits the nail on the head. She stated that Hillier’s comments were ” “dangerous” and “testosterone-fuelled” for saying the job of Canadian soldiers is to be able to kill people.” I agree but the criticism must go further and must come from the party that is supposed to be on the left: the NDP. It is not about the soldiers it is about the attitude that our soldiers are just killers, an attitude that our government should not have.

–Pandering to reactionary religious leaders is not what this country should be about. The rights of the individual and of the smaller group must be upheld. The use of the notwithstanding clause in the manner that it is being put forward is a blatent misuse of the measure. The people of Canada (especially Alberta) must oppose this in the same manner that brought the law into effect: persistent struggle for equality under the state law. The NDP have it right: The Tories and Liberals want to legalize discrimination.

–This is a reality that I came to a few years back. There is no hope for corporate news media. It exists in the wrong system to present news to the people. It has no choice but to present a sanitized, hyped, comercial message that people don’t care about but is more exciting than the boring reality that exists 99.99% of the time. The real problems in society do not “break”… because they have existed for years and are systematic. These problems never make it to the news because they are not very interesting to watch on TV. The only solution is to start a new media that is made up of people committed to doing analysis… in-depth analysis and reporting on the ills of the current government. People want to know how the government is messing up not how well it is doing covering up its mistakes.

–This takes the cake. This is not funny… really, it is not funny at all… OK after you have laughed I think it is time to think about real citizen control over the pharmaceutical industry.