–US aid is a tool of imperialism. It has been since it started to flow.

–Unless it has oil or strategic significance, don’t expect the current government to do anything to help.

–Support the Friends of Rockwook Park.

–Expect to see your phone bill increase.

–May has got the point wrong. It is not if the site is contaminated now, it is the fact that the government sprayed the stuff on people without telling them that they were in harms way.

–Ah, the government is using the “we can’t help that we’re stupid” excuse. Seems like it is taking its lead from the US government. When it comes to rights, we do not have the right to be stupid.

–Outrageous. There is no academic freedom when this happens to even one person. The process that Ward Churchill was fired should shock and enrage all academics working around the world.

“Everything is politics, the freshly-graduated doctor told reporters, but if the United States would give young blacks from poor backgrounds the possibility to study in their own country, they wouldn’t have to come to Cuba.”

“The Republican leader in the House, John Boehner, said Democrats should stop playing politics, as no US military base abroad represented an “occupation” but was the product of an agreement with a host nation.”

Of course.

These 2,000 Iraqi’s wouldn’t be coming if their own society hadn’t been reduced to rubble. Perhaps the state of Michigan should talk to Syria, who have been taking in 2,000 Iraqi refugees a day.

–Monsanto against the farmer. The State has sided with the farmer for once.

–A graphical rundown of the anti-imperial actions (for the most part) in South and Central America.

–LaborFest is on its way in San Francisco.

–Some pictures of Iran… very nice to balance with the pictures that are broadcast on the `mainstream’ media. It is something everyone should have a look at when doing analysis of the proposed war.

–There is no way that the working people should pay for all the expense in Toronto. Taxes are the only fair way to maintain public infrastructure and cities cannot survive without public infrastructure. Support Miller’s bid to increase tax revenue.

–We must stand together to save education. It is coming under attack by neo-liberals who are trying to change the way that public post-secondary education continues. Support UofS Labour Studies Program.

–We must use all the tools of the trade, including those that are invented in the meantime. However, Facebook and other networking advances are only tools, they cannot replace the feet on the ground approaches to organising.

–By reading the regular popular press that the French economy is collapsing… just goes to show the reality cannot be found in the `mainstream’.

–Crazy. Just crazy. Who do these people think that they are? This is a call by right-wing nuts to privatize our water systems and to make it too expensive for the poor to actually use water (thus leading to `conservation’). It is outrageous and it deserves a loud and public response by the people and the unions. Stop the privatisation of our water!

–Is there really something wrong with US gun culture?

–Reuters brings us Sarkozy’s foreign relations policies in a nutshell.

–Are we really going to rely on this group to stop the killing in Darfur? There is a problem with the way that we do `aid’ and `development’ that need to be addressed if we are going to be able to help those that are struggling to rebuild and survive in Darfur.