“Might Afghanistan been made more secure by a limited Marshall-Plan style intervention? It is, of course, possible that the construction of free schools and hospitals, subsidised homes for the poor and the rebuilding of the social infrastructure that was destroyed after the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989 could have stabilised the country … this would have required a strong state and a different world order. Only a slightly crazed utopian could have expected NATO countries, busy privatising and deregulating their own countries, to embark on enlightened social experiments abroad.”

–Demand a public postal service.

–He says things like this but then backs the move to withdraw the CAW’s support for the labour party here in Canada. Unions must be independent, internationalist, united in struggle, and demanding political power towards those ends for all working people. Anything else is regressive.

–Of-course it is a cover for privatisation… it is also a cover for exploitation and the increasing of profits by driving down wages.

–Fisk tells us how it really is. It is really just murder, isn’t it.

–There is little doubt that the War on Terror is making the world a more dangerous and deadly place. It must be stopped.

–A “Stop Brown” candidate would be a great thing for the Labour Party in Britain. Neo-Labour’s days are numbered… hopefully. People need to get back in charge of their government.

–Agreed.

–A rather interesting piece from Eva Golinger about progress on the evironmental front from Venezuela. There is a push to transform the Venezuelan economy and infrastructure towards green energy and public transit alternatives… not to mention a whole lot else. What other countries in the world are doing this? Only Cuba.

–The people of the world deserve better than to be living in an aparthied state. The wall must come down if peace is the goal…

–We must unite to end Islamophobia.

–We should not be sending people who are trained in peacekeeping into combat zones. It is not what people signed up to be reservists for and it is not what the majority of the people in Canada want from their military. Troops out now, end US imperialism.

–A rather good piece by Chris Hedges.

–I think that the answer is clearly YES.

–I like the title…

–The Conservatives in the US are in retrenchment mode. The Left must organise if it is going to stop this kind of regressive and anti-democratic move.

–Brown is no better than Blair. We need a progressive voice in Britain if we are going to get the crazies out of power.

–This should scare everyone. The only reason that this is happening is because the neo-labour crowd seem to continue to push regressive policy. Labour must be taken back or destroyed through a mass movement of organised labour making a new labour party that will actually stand on progressive politics. Enough is enough, demand accountability and democracy now.

–Almost goes without saying, wouldn’t you say?

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Fuelling fear in Canada

>by Jakeet Singh

–Call you MP and make sure that they know your position. End the terror laws.

–We are in their country killing their citizens. Why is it that there are people that think that this is alright? Troops out now. Reconstruction should be supported by us but carried out by the Afghan people.

–Food production in the US will crash if this is not stopped. Most people do not realise that all their plants that produce fruits and grains have to be pollinated by insects for them to produce the parts that we eat. Bees are extremely important in this process. However, most food is pollinated by solitary bees and there is no indication that this article includes those. If it does then we have a very serious problem.

One of the better orators of our day.

–Yet another reason why private colleges can cost the tax-payer more than state funded colleges. Tuition should be free for all those finding training and education and the law should protect citizens from these kinds of institutions that exist now.

–Nice to see NUPGE get on board with opposing Atlantica. See www.stopatlantica.org for more information.

–The problem is that Flaherty is blinded by the idiocy of Conservative style economics. It is much like their method of dealing with democracy and the global warming… they pretend that anything that gets in the way of their policy doesn’t exist.

–Support those trying to form a union. Demand fairness at work, demand the right to unionise.

–The American Dream is not only a myth it works in reverse.

–An analysis of the New York Times and why those that read it and believe what they read become stupider with every new issue.

–That gap between rich and poor is growing at such a speed that people are landing in severe poverty as their wages do not keep up with inflation.

–A rather interesting article on the organisation “Human Rights Watch”.

–An article on why a living wage is so important to working women in North America.

–Ideologues run the US… heck, they run most of the right-wing countries around the world. It should frustrate the majority of the people in the world that the people that have the most power do things based on the interests of the wealthy few or for obscured religious reasons.

–Of interest to those that follow British politics.