–The elite continue in the system that benefits only them.

–Stop Atlantica (and TILMA). We must stand united against these furthering of “agreements” that hurt the people of Canada.

“Privacy International placed Google at the bottom of its ranking because of the sheer amount of data it gathers about users and their activities; because its privacy policies are incomplete and for its poor record of responding to complaints.”

Another soon to be failed strategy.

–A discussion of art and radical politics. An interesting read.

–CUPE outlines the whole thing for us.

–I like the title.

–More on the Security and Prosperity Partnerships and the extension of NAFTA type agreements.

–Some more insight into the news reports that Chavez has highlighted a group from the Albert Einstein Institution as part of the efforts to mount a “soft coup” against the government.

–Some more analysis of the current conflicts between the ultra rich and the rest of the people in Venezuela.

–An alternative to the current liberal trade regimes that dominate the world.

–Negotiations are still on the table in South Africa. Support the workers.

–Some environmental disasters seem to be creeping up on the US.

–Bad to worse.

Also see: Fisk: Fear and loathing on an American campus

“[W]hat is happening at DePaul University is a very serious matter in the anodyne, frightened academic world that now exists in the US.”

One can only wonder whether there will be more than one candidate on the ballot this time.

“He says American prisoners most likely would prefer Guantanamo to incarceration in Arkansas.”

“The left has been swept along, entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent, naïvely conceiving of global warming as a crisis that will force radical social changes on capitalism by the weight of the global emergency.”

O’Keefe responds to Noble and Rancourt

–For those looking for information on the South African public sector strike I would suggest LabourStart.org. Here is one of the stories they link to that outlines the political dimensions.

–For those that are interested in union politics and it relation to the the Canadian State.

–Some decoding of the comments made by leaders in the G8 leaders in Germany courtesy of the Independent of London.