“High school girls as young as 16 are being forced to sell sex on the internet by a group of their former fellow students, according to North Vancouver RCMP.”

Analysis on the Lebanese elections earlier this month.

–Health care in Venezuela.

“Th[e] coup high command cannot be negotiated with, they have to be made to resign and other, younger officers who are not committed to the oligarchy should take over the military command, or there will never be a government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’ in Honduras.”

The coup in Honduras will not stand.

A great article tracing the political trajectory of the ousted Honduran president.

‘One might agree with John Ryan who argued that if Washington had left the Marxist Taraki government alone back in 1979, “there would have been no army of mujahideen, no Soviet intervention, no war that destroyed Afghanistan, no Osama bin Laden, and no September 11 tragedy.” But it would be asking too much for Washington to leave unmolested a progressive leftist government that was organizing the social capital around collective public needs rather than private accumulation.’

“The Obama administration is moving forward with plans to fund groups that support Iranian dissidents, records and interviews show, continuing a program that became controversial when it was expanded by President Bush.”

See also: The the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) report which outlines the terms of the funding program.

“A New York Times article has just confirmed that the US Government has been “working for several days” with the coup planners in Honduras to halt the illegal overthrow of President Zelaya.”

“[E]mergency wiretaps remain highly secretive, with no requirements for police to keep records or report on their use.”

“The move runs counter to a demand by Israel’s major ally and backer, the US, that it stop all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land.”

UN, aid agencies call for end to Israel’s two-year blockade of Gaza | United Nations

Also see: Israel outraged at UN remarks urging end to Gaza blockade | Ha’aretz

“To condemn vehemently the coup d’état staged this morning against the constitutionally-established Government of Honduras…”

“Masked soldiers abducted Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas and attacked the ambassadors of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela in the process of executing this arbitrary detention.”

Also see: Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup | New York Times

and Honduras supreme court ‘ordered army coup’ | Telegraph

Also see: ALBA Condemns Unfolding Coup in Honduras | Cuban News Agency

and European Union condemns military coup in Honduras | Xinhua

“Mohammed Al Gharani was the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Now, seven years later, he has returned to Chad, his country of origin, after being freed”

“In short, Iran’s fiscal-conservative candidates are disputing the re-election of a social-conservative president. Which conservatism is worse?”

“Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, has been arrested by soldiers after he vowed to go ahead with a controversial referendum on constitutional changes … The non-binding referendum, which was due to take place on Sunday, would have asked Hondurans whether they approved of holding a poll on constitutional change alongside general elections in November.”

The President was removed in a coup d’etat.

Also see: Troops detain Honduran president | Los Angeles Times

“Cable news now functions as a mechanism that selects from a haze of unverifiable information and amplifies its choices. CNN seems to be the best example. At least they’re upfront about it: an anchor previewed an upcoming story by saying they’d be bringing us reports “true or not.” Jack Cafferty noted that the information from [Iran] was “Alive but Cloudy”. Even their original segment on Green martyr Neda opened with the disclaimer “the facts surrounding her life and death are difficult to confirm.” This didn’t stop them from replaying the garish spectacle so often that it begs comparison with the paltry coverage of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani victims of US aggression.”

–A new leaflet from NUPGE on women in the current economic downturn.

–Support the workers. They are fighting for your public services.

Time to nationalize ‘em, then.

“Bereft of both cash and ideas, like social democrats everywhere, the NDP is in big trouble. Firing some senior staff would be a good start for a party whose relevance is increasingly marginal. Sad times.”