From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 1 11:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] 25-day Strike at World's Largest Privately-owned Copper Mine Ends Message-ID: <20060901181710.26352.qmail@resist.ca> LabourStart headline - Source: BBC Union members at Chile's Escondida mine accepted new contracts, so ending a 25-day dispute, but it will take up to a week for full production to resume. Workers voted more than 13 to one to accept a new 40-month contract, with a 5% wage rise and a $17,000 bonus. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9869 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9869 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 1 14:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Rupert Murdoch's Victims: The Life and Crimes of a Global Goebbels Message-ID: <20060901211711.14584.qmail@resist.ca> In the editorial pages of Murdoch's antipodean flagship, The Australian, the bombing of Beirut is presented as "Israel doing Lebanon a favour" and restive Arabs are described as "Nazis". None of this should be surprising, as Murdoch revealed to the Hollywood Reporter that his media ventures are "not as important to me as spreading my personal political beliefs"...And these beliefs are dangerous. Murdoch's influential Weekly Standard advocates the pursuit of "regime change in Syria and a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9884 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9884 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 1 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] How the Amazon's Indigenous People are Holding Back the 'Arc of Destruction' Message-ID: <20060902001704.12048.qmail@resist.ca> By Daniel Howden | 11 August 2006 The uruku red lines painted on her cheeks change shape as she draws a sharp breath. Arms outstretched, she blows into the palms of her hands and lifts an invisible weight into the night sky. Katia Luisa Yawanawa is standing on an open ship's deck, thousands of miles upstream on the Amazon, where the great river divides into the black water of the Rio Negro and white water of the Solimoes. Katia is offering a prayer called a Shuanka. It involves singing to the Yawanawans' ancestors for guidance and protection. Although only 26, Katia is among the most important members of her tribe. She is a wise woman, a xinaya, and the Yawanawan tribe's first female shaman. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9885 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9885 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 1 21:40:18 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] US Oil and Defense Industry Chiefs Cash In Message-ID: <20060902044019.16189.qmail@resist.ca> By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON - US oil and defense industry executives are raking in record personal profits, cashing in on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and record oil price increases. [A UFE report] found that the top 34 CEOs combined have earned almost $1 billion since the September 11 attacks. This would have been enough money to employ and support more than 1 million Iraqis for a year to rebuild their country. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9896 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9896 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 1 23:17:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Hurtling Towards the Next Intifada: An Interview with Jonathan Cook Message-ID: <20060902061713.12828.qmail@resist.ca> The nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is irreconcilable as long as Israel sees itself as a ?Jewish and democratic? state. This is the premise of my book. The Jewish and democratic myth keeps Israelis both from examining the essentially undemocratic nature of their state...and from finding a peaceful solution to their conflict with the Palestinians. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9898 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9898 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 03:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The High Cost of Being Poor Message-ID: <20060902101706.11965.qmail@resist.ca> (L)et's have a little less talk about how the poor should learn to manage their money, and a little more attention to all the ways that money is being systematically siphoned off...If you're rich, you might want to stay that way. It's a whole lot cheaper than being poor. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9899 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9899 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Thousands Killed in Post-Aristide Haiti, Study Finds Message-ID: <20060902171705.24459.qmail@resist.ca> Ouster of leader led to violence: journal Jeff Heinrich | The Montreal Gazette | September 01, 2006 A study in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet suggests that, despite the presence of a Canadian-led United Nations police and peacekeeping force, 8,000 people have been killed and 35,000 women and girls have been raped since the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9883 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9883 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 11:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The Economics of War In Lebanon Message-ID: <20060902181710.17191.qmail@resist.ca> War Is The Health of the State. And in this case the State of Israel could afford to attack Lebanon. It also had too attack its major Port competitor, whose production and economy was begining to boom, threatening competition with Israels export market. Hezbollah was the pretext for a bit of good old fashioned capitalist punishment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9910 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9910 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 11:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Drug Users go to Court to keep Safe Injection Site Open Message-ID: <20060902181711.17192.qmail@resist.ca> September 1, 2006 | Pivot Newswire Vancouver ? On August 30, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) filed a Supreme Court action against the Attorney General and the Minister of Health seeking a court ordered exemption to enable Insite, North America?s first safe injection site, to continue to operate in the absence of a permit from the federal government. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9914 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9914 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 15:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic" Message-ID: <20060902224010.27802.qmail@resist.ca> Responding to a report by Human Rights Watch charging Israel with war crimes in its conduct of the war in Lebanon that was written by its director Kenneth Roth, Rabbi Avi Shafran of Agudath Israel has called Roth "loathsome." An editorial in the New York Sun accused Roth of "de-legitimization of Judaism" because his group condemned Israel's strategy as "an eye for an eye." Rabbi Aryeh Spero in Human Events Online referred to Roth as a "human rights impostor," and likened him to "Nazis and Communists"...The fact that Kenneth Roth is Jewish and his father fled Nazi Germany makes no difference to the Ultras. If you do not support Israel 110% you are a Jew-hater, a renegade, a self-hater, and a holocaust denier. Get it? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9919 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9919 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 15:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight Message-ID: <20060902224010.27808.qmail@resist.ca> In Lebanon, a little-honored truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries in a cycle that, as if inevitably, returns to warfare, carnage and human misery. Let's describe the current crisis for what it is: a US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon, with only a cynical pretense to legitimacy. Amid all the charges and counter-charges, the most immediate factor behind the assault is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9920 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9920 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 2 18:17:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] More Provincial Police Patrolling Streets of Caledonia on Long Weekend Message-ID: <20060903011714.2807.qmail@resist.ca> There will be extra police on the streets this weekend in Caledonia, Ont., where concerns linger about violence erupting between residents and Six Nations protesters who continue to occupy a local housing development on disputed land. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9921 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9921 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 3 15:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Colombia Eliminates Public Postal Service Message-ID: <20060903221708.6288.qmail@resist.ca> At 6.30 p.m. on August 25, 2006, the President of Colombia, ?lvaro Uribe V?lez, hit hard again on the Colombian trade union movement. At that exact time, through an executive order, he made public that he will wind up the Administraci?n Postal Nacional (National Postal Administration - Adpostal), a public service institution created over a century ago. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9941 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9941 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 3 22:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Olympic Cities Punish Poor Message-ID: <20060904051714.16475.qmail@resist.ca> A University of Toronto sociologist claimed in an academic paper that poor people suffer greater housing shortages and lose their civil liberties in cities that host the Olympics...Recently, Vancouver business officials have been clamouring for more measures to address ?aggressive? panhandling, even though this is already outlawed under the provincial Safe Streets Act. ?Big business stands to gain the most from the Olympics, and the most disadvantaged members of the community stand to lose the most..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9954 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9954 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 3 22:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Tips Street Performers Remember Message-ID: <20060904054008.2110.qmail@resist.ca> The trinkets and photos you tip a street performer with today, may end up as some of their most treasured family possessions 5 generations from now. You never know. Things with zero monetary value, to speak of, end up as some of buskers? most prized tips. It will be interesting to see where that tip the Saw Lady received, the coin with the crown and clown on it, ends up, in the grand scheme of history. Will some archaeologist dig it up someday and claim it an ancient money they never knew of prior?! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9953 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9953 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 3 22:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Genocide in Gaza Message-ID: <20060904054008.2112.qmail@resist.ca> A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred. An average of eight Palestinians die daily in the Israeli attacks on the Strip. Most of them are children. Hundreds are maimed, wounded and paralyzed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9955 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9955 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 3 23:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City Message-ID: <20060904061704.9238.qmail@resist.ca> (Neo-Liberal) conditions still affect most Mexicans, they're not getting better, and there's a growing discontent and anger because of them. It's leading to acts of resistance and rebellion against a system of governance that's enriched a small minority of the country's elite (a handful of them to obscene levels of wealth) at the expense of the majority poor sinking deeper into poverty and the misery from it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10007 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10007 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 4 11:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Major Legal Victory for Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation Message-ID: <20060904184014.29405.qmail@resist.ca> [A recent] Ontario Superior Court [...] decision requires the publicly traded Ontario mining exploration company Platinex Incorporated to cease drilling operations in the territory claimed by Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake) First Nation (KIFN) in northwestern Ontario. The ruling obviates the $10-billion damage suit Platinex filed against KIFN for opposing drilling on territory that K [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10008 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10008 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 4 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Summerhill: An Education Option Message-ID: <20060904191708.4375.qmail@resist.ca> There is a good background article in the Scotsman this weekend on Scotlands own libertarian educator; A.S. Neil and his Summerhill school. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9912 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9912 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 4 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] In Consideration of Property Damage as a Tool for Social Change Message-ID: <20060904191709.4378.qmail@resist.ca> This is an article from the New People, a progressive newspaper in Pittsburgh, writen in response to outcry from the more liberal elements of the local activist community to an emergency protest against the massacre in Haditha. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10011 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10011 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 4 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] US War On Capitalism In Iran Message-ID: <20060904191709.4377.qmail@resist.ca> The use of the chimera of WMD is an excuse to continue the American led sanctions on Irans development as a major capitalist state in the region. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9911 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9911 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 4 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] USA: No Celebration for Workers this Labor Day Message-ID: <20060904191709.4379.qmail@resist.ca> According to the Bush administration, this is the best of times for the American worker. According to the labor movement, this is the worst of times. What's up? Ever since May 1, which used to be the day to honor workers, was dumped (deemed by business to be too akin to the celebration of communism and thus likely to provoke violent rallies), the first Monday in September has been Labor Day. It [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10014 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10014 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 5 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Urgent Appeal from OCAP Message-ID: <20060905171705.6895.qmail@resist.ca> OCAP If you agree with OCAP's work of building resistance and support the notion of fighting, instead of adapting to, the agenda of social abandonment, please send us a donation to help us overcome the present, acute funding crisis we find ourselves in. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10031 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10031 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 5 10:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Only Christians Are REAL Women Message-ID: <20060905174011.25917.qmail@resist.ca> The misappropriately titled REAL Women of Canada is a self avowed group of Christian women, fundamentalist Christians to be exact. White Whing Conservative Christian women to be more exact. They have launched a campaign to end funding for the Status of Women. As usual, it's an annual event for this small vocal minority. It's an old war, as Marriane Faithful would say, between those who advocate for women's rights, and those who advocate for Christian rites. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/9913 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9913 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 5 16:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Tamil "Terrorism" Not So Simple Message-ID: <20060905231711.23697.qmail@resist.ca> The Tigers, shorthand for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have been fighting for an independent state since the riots in 1981, when thousands of Tamils were massacred. They've sometimes used brutal tactics, including suicide bombers...But roots and complexities of the conflict (are) glaringly absent from (media) coverage. Instead, stories zeroed in on the possibility of terrorists in our midst. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10037 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10037 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 5 16:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: The War is Lost Message-ID: <20060905231711.23698.qmail@resist.ca> "The Pentagon?s latest quarterly 'progress' report to Congress on Iraq is a grim tale of a lost war. The Pentagon told Congress what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and propaganda organs such as Fox 'News' never tell the American public...Everything this moronic regime promised about a 'cakewalk' war and the ease of pacifying Iraq and turning it into an American puppet democracy has turned to ashes in President Bush?s mouth." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10038 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10038 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 5 20:40:26 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:40:26 -0000 Subject: [news] Foreign Workers Often Treated Badly Message-ID: <20060906034027.1882.qmail@resist.ca> ?What motivates the Canadian government to recruit temporary workers is that migrant workers are essentially indentured servants bound to specific employers and do not have minimum-wage and work-condition protections, cannot effectively unionize, and cannot access most social programs.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10039 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10039 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 5 21:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Airline Passenger Forced to Cover Up Shirt with Arabic Script Message-ID: <20060906041705.7497.qmail@resist.ca> An Arab human rights activist was prevented from boarding a plane at Kennedy Airport (New York) while wearing a T-shirt that read "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10041 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10041 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 6 12:17:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food? Message-ID: <20060906191712.5722.qmail@resist.ca> By Jason Mark, AlterNet. Posted August 31, 2006. For farmers [...], today's challenges may be tomorrow's crises. The problems of coping with high oil prices reveal how utterly dependent our food production system is on nonrenewable fuels. As long as oil is plentiful, that dependence isn't a concern. But in some circles fears are growing that if global petroleum production begins a steady decline, our entire food system will be strained, [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10073 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10073 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 6 12:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Books security threat: Concordia University Message-ID: <20060906194008.25207.qmail@resist.ca> CANADIAN 9/11 AUTHOR DEFIES BAN AND CHALLENGES "RISK ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE" SECRECY University Says Risk Assessment Committee Membership Must Remain Secret for "Security Reasons" The latest developments in my Kafkaesque saga, as always, can be viewed on my publisher's web site: [www.cumuluspress.com][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://www.cumuluspress.com (www.cumuluspress.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10074 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10074 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 6 15:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadians Give GOP Re-election Campaign $450M Boost Message-ID: <20060906221709.23481.qmail@resist.ca> Elliott Feldman joins the "Friday Morning After" on CKUT Radio to discuss Bush's $450 Million Slush Fund from the softwood lumber deal. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10075 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10075 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 6 16:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] FDA Approves Viral Adulteration of our Food Supply Message-ID: <20060906231717.1997.qmail@resist.ca> By Byron J. Richards, CCN | August 24, 2006 | News With Views On Friday, August 18, 2006, the FDA approved a viral cocktail to be sprayed on foods we eat. This is the first time viruses have been approved for use as food additives. The FDA wants you to believe it will be safe to consume these viruses every day for the rest of your life with no adverse health effects. This is a monumental announcement by the FDA, indicating they are throwing all caution to the wind regarding the safety of our food supply. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10077 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10077 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 6 22:17:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave Off Looming Global Meltdown Message-ID: <20060907051715.10703.qmail@resist.ca> by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Dissident Voice | September 1, 2006 In a little-noted article printed in early August in the Armed Forces Journal, a monthly magazine for officers and leaders in the United States military community, early retired Major Ralph Peters sets out the latest ideas in current US strategic thinking. And they are extremely disturbing. Ethnically Cleansing the Entire Middle [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10076 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10076 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 7 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Adios to The Fox! Death of the Mexican Presidency Message-ID: <20060907071704.14500.qmail@resist.ca> In the six years (outgoing President Vicente) Fox had occupied the throne of Mexico, the rich had grown exponentially richer and the poor were just as poor as ever...4,000,000 of Vicente Fox's fellow citizens had been forced to abandon the country for El Norte because of zero job growth and the depletion of the agricultural sector. The President's much hoopla'd...integral immigration reform had been flushed down Bush's toilet...Hundreds of women had been slaughtered in Ciudad Juarez and the narco gangs were beheading their rivals in broad daylight on the streets of provincial cities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10089 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10089 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 7 04:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Outing a Stephen Harper Reactionary OR Terry Glavin, Canadian Journalist Goes South Message-ID: <20060907111705.21078.qmail@resist.ca> In quiet conversation he calls himself a socialist...Terry Glavin?s record is pretty good. He?s an expert on fish and fishing policy, a sensitive friend and reporter of First Nation's legitimacy, and a strong writer against ecological destruction...But? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10090 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10090 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 7 08:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] World Bank Publication Promotes Elimination of Worker Protection Message-ID: <20060907154013.17595.qmail@resist.ca> LabourStart headline - Source: ICFTU The 2007 edition of Doing Business, prepared by the Bank?s private sector development department, has declared the Marshall Islands to be the world?s ?Best Performer? for its almost total absence of labour regulation, displacing last year?s champion, Palau. Both Marshall Islands and Palau have in common that they are tiny Pacific island nations tha [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10054 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10054 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 7 13:17:19 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: Campaign Against Taliban 'Causes Misery and Hunger' Message-ID: <20060907201719.3958.qmail@resist.ca> Two international think-tanks published reports yesterday highlighting failures of US and UK policy in Afghanistan, and warned the security situation in the country was deteriorating...The Senlis Council claimed that the campaign by British forces against the Taliban had inflicted lawlessness, misery and starvation on the Afghan people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10102 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10102 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 7 13:40:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:40:20 -0000 Subject: [news] How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon Message-ID: <20060907204020.9036.qmail@resist.ca> The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others...Unfortunately, one of the best -- Human Rights Watch -- has failed that test during the war in Lebanon this summer. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10103 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10103 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Head of Palestinian Presidential Security Taken Prisoner by Israel Message-ID: <20060908171707.26753.qmail@resist.ca> IMEMC & Agencies - 06 September 2006, 01:01 The head of a Palestinian Presidential Security force, 'Force 17', was taken prisoner by Israeli forces Tuesday at an Israeli checkpoint outside the city of Nablus in the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported. General Mahmoud Damra, taken by the Israeli forces to an unknown location, was apparently appointed to the security force in May. Accordin [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10061 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10061 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Oaxaca's Popular Assembly "Expels" the State Government Message-ID: <20060908171708.26754.qmail@resist.ca> **Events Announced to Build a "National Movement from Below" ** By Nancy Davies | Commentary from Oaxaca| September 7, 2006 In an eight-and-a-half-hour-long meeting of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) on September 3, the 193 delegates from different organizations which constitute the APPO declared the governor Ulises Ruiz Ort?z (URO) "proscrito" ? banned, exiled, unwelcome ? in the state of Oaxaca. The ex-governor will be replaced by a "proclamation of good government for the city of Oaxaca, a proclamation for the 570 municipalities, and a manifesto to the nation, declaring the banishment of URO from the government, and that the government will continue to be exercised from the historic center of the city of Oaxaca". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10126 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10126 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Welfare Rates in Canada the Lowest in Decades Message-ID: <20060908171708.26756.qmail@resist.ca> The amount of money Canadians on welfare received in 2005 wasis at its lowest point in 19 years, according to a report released by the National Council of Welfare in August. The two worste provinces are were New Brunswick and Canada's richest province, Alberta, reports the Globe and Mail. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10108 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10108 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] New Report Suggests Violence has Become Much Worse in Haiti Since Canadian Intervention Message-ID: <20060908171708.26760.qmail@resist.ca> An estimated 8 000 individuals were murdered in the 22 months following the US- and Canada-backed overthrow of the government led by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a new report suggests. The study, based on randomized interviews with Port-au-Prince residents conducted by The Lancet, a prestigious UK-based medical journal, also estimated that 35,000 women were victims of sexual assault during the same per [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10109 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10109 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 11:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Arab Racism, Islam, and the Left Message-ID: <20060908181708.22770.qmail@resist.ca> Exposing and ending anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism needs to be a priority in the anti-war movement and the left in general. Doing so will not only bring more Arabs and Muslims into the movement, but also undercut the racist basis of support for the war. It will also alleviate the sense of isolation and powerlessness that so many Arabs and Muslims feel as a result of being the targets of war and racism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10129 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10129 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 19:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] No One is Illegal Opposes Armed Border Guards Message-ID: <20060909021710.9950.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver, September 8 2006 - The immigrant and refugee rights group No One is Illegal - Vancouver is gravely concerned at Prime Minister Stephen Harpers?s announcement to arm Canada?s border guards of the Canadian Border Services Agency over the next ten years, beginning in September 2007. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10148 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10148 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 19:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Gaza is Dying Message-ID: <20060909024009.13008.qmail@resist.ca> Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation...A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade...Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10149 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10149 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 20:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Disaster Capitalism: How to Make Money out of Misery Message-ID: <20060909031717.18812.qmail@resist.ca> The privatisation of aid after Katrina offers a glimpse of a terrifying future in which only the wealthy are saved Naomi Klein | August 30, 2006 | The Guardian [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10150 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10150 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 20:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] What We Need to Know About the Corporate Takeover of the "Organic" Food Market Message-ID: <20060909034015.5098.qmail@resist.ca> The Northeast Organic Farming Association, the regional organization representing organic growers in the northeast, urges us to choose locally grown food which is not certified organic over organic food which is corporately marketed and travels long distances. Why? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10151 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10151 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 8 20:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Admits to Secret Prisons Message-ID: <20060909034015.5099.qmail@resist.ca> WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush admitted for the first time that the CIA has been operating clandestine prisons as he announced plans to try 14 high-profile terrorist suspects -- including the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks -- who have been held at the secret jails. ALAN FREEMAN [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10152 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10152 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 9 10:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Sit-in Continues after Band Members Vote Against Chief Message-ID: <20060909171712.25095.qmail@resist.ca> September 7, 2006 - by Joseph Quesnel Aboriginal protesters opposed to a private commercial development on their reserve land near Winnipeg are vowing to continue their occupation of the site after being notified that a majority of band members have voted against plans by their chief to privately develop the property. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10161 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10161 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 9 19:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Gaza is dying Message-ID: <20060910021703.21977.qmail@resist.ca> **'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'** PATRICK COCKBURN | Independent | 8 September 2006 Gaza -- Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has been diverte [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10144 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10144 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 9 19:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia: Feminist Criticism and Praise for Morales Message-ID: <20060910021703.21976.qmail@resist.ca> Written by Mar?a Galindo, Translated by April Howard, From UpsideDownWorld.org In Bolivia there are hundreds of thousands of Evos, in each public high school, on each neighborhood soccer team, in each little workers union, from the taxi drivers to the ice cream vendors. There are intuitive Evos, with beautifully dark complexions, casual and unorthodox in terms of cultural identity. They are [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10178 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10178 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 9 19:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ralph Klein's Real Legacy Message-ID: <20060910021703.21978.qmail@resist.ca> [W]hat is Ralph Klein's legacy? Nothing less than a total transformation of how Albertans are governed. Since November 22, 2004, when his government was re-elected handily in spite of a desultory campaign, Klein has consolidated the unwritten constitutional framework for a workable one-party state, now so deeply entrenched in Alberta's economy and political culture that it may never be dislodge [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10143 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10143 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 9 19:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Oregon ELF Indictments Hinge on Wiretap Decision Message-ID: <20060910021703.21979.qmail@resist.ca> EUGENE, Ore. - A federal judge has given prosecutors until Sept. 26 to say if they used warrantless wiretaps against 13 defendants facing arson charges in cases believed linked to the radical Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. The defendants are variously charged in a number of major arson cases across the West including fires at tree farms, an SUV dealership, a meatpacking pla [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10154 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10154 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 9 19:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Safe Injection Site Saving Lives but has Room for Improvement Message-ID: <20060910021703.21982.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver Area Drug Users director Ann Livingston credits Insite, North America's only safe injection clinic for drug users, with reducing harm. But she would like to see the facility open up an inhalation room for crack smokers and do something about the problem of assisted injections. Many older users have badly scarred veins or injured limbs, and have a great deal of trouble injecting themselve [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10142 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10142 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 10 17:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] "I'm a Leftist, But ... ": The Liberals' War on Lebanon Message-ID: <20060911001705.18889.qmail@resist.ca> It seems that we have a whole community of "leftists-but", who propose the annihilation of entire Lebanese villages, the turning of Lebanon into a heap of ruins, the destruction over the heads of its inhabitants of any building where Hassan Nasrallah may (or may not) be staying. And, while we are at it, also to wipe Gaza from the face of the earth...Encountering such sentences on TV, on the radio and in the papers, I am sometimes tempted to pray: Dear God, give me honest to goodness fascists instead of these leftists-but. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10246 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10246 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 10 18:17:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] "Quiet Transfer" in East Jerusalem Nears Completion Message-ID: <20060911011712.28869.qmail@resist.ca> Israel is close to implementing a long-term plan to transform the demographic structure of annexed East Jerusalem. Policies to revoke the residency permits of Palestinian Jerusalemites and to Judaise the city have been described as ethnic cleansing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10250 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10250 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 10 22:40:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] RCMP Officer Won't be Charged after Man Shot in Head in B.C. Jail Message-ID: <20060911054017.22229.qmail@resist.ca> [![Ian Bush: shot by cop in back of head. Image from opinion250.com][1]][2]**Ian Bush: shot by cop in back of head.**from opinion250.comAn RCMP officer won't be charged in the death of a man who was shot in the back of the head at a rural B.C. police detachment after he was arrested for drinking beer outside the local hockey arena. The Criminal Justice Branch has concluded the "available evidence" doesn't support charging the officer involved in Ian Geoffrey Bush's death. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/ian+bush.thumbnail.jpg (Ian Bush: shot by cop in back of head.: Image from opinion250.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10252 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10252 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 11 00:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Testament of the Death Squads: Good Christ, Bad Christ Message-ID: <20060911071704.4097.qmail@resist.ca> (A)s a direct result of US policy (in the 1980's), more than three hundred thousand Central Americans, many of them devout Christians, would be killed and tortured, and over a million driven into exile. In a way, the New Right?s crusade in Central America was a preview of the tormented Jesus that premiered two decades later in The Passion of the Christ -- and, despite (Mel) Gibson?s drunken dissent, is today on world tour in...Abu Ghraib and the killing fields of Iraq and now Lebanon. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10253 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10253 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 11 10:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Coca-Cola Moves in on Kabul Message-ID: <20060911171710.11520.qmail@resist.ca> Coca-Cola has opened a $25m bottling plant in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in one of the first major new businesses to open in the country since the fall of the Taliban government. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10269 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10269 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 00:40:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts: How They Let the Guilty Parties of 9/11 Off the Hook Message-ID: <20060912074017.17940.qmail@resist.ca> The (9/11 conspiracy) nuts disdain the real world because, like much of the left and liberal sectors, they have promoted Bush, Cheney and the Neo-Cons to an elevated status as the Arch Demons of American history, instead of being just one more team running the American empire, a team of more than usual stupidity and incompetence... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10281 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10281 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 01:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Apocalypse Now Message-ID: <20060912081707.22989.qmail@resist.ca> (9/11) was intended as a strike against the heart of imperialism. But had any rational person contemplated the possible consequences, he would never have brought himself to do it. This is not just because of the immense destructive power unleashed as the planes hit the buildings, but also because it gave the US opportunity to divide the world as it saw fit, turning sophisticated imperialist theories into self-fulfilling prophecies regarding the confrontation of civilisations. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10282 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10282 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 09:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?Q2FuYWRhwpJz?= Drift on Israel Message-ID: <20060912161706.22148.qmail@resist.ca> ![justin_allan_fp.jpg][1]**Justin Pordur** traces the shift of Canada's foreign policy in the Middle East. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/justin_allan_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10280 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10280 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 09:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Fox Government Arrests Indigenous Farmers in Chiapas for Planting Radishes and Flowers Message-ID: <20060912164012.26053.qmail@resist.ca> By Al Giordano | The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chiapas | September 9, 2006 On Friday, Juan Jim?nez, 33, and Pedro Jim?nez G?mez, 18, armed with gardening rakes, walked out to work the field where they cultivate radishes, cucumbers, carrots and flowers to sell in the markets of San Crist?bal, Chiapas. Agents of the federal attorney general?s office (PGR, in its Spanish initials) seized their rakes and placed the two men under arrest. As of Saturday morning they were still imprisoned in the PGR offices of San Crist?bal de Las Casas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10239 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10239 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 09:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli PR creates course for 1, 400 public schools in New York Message-ID: <20060912164013.26058.qmail@resist.ca> **New Yorkers to study about Israel** YANIV HALILI[_Yediot Aharanoth_][1], 8 September 2006NEW YORK - The New York City Council's education committee approved a curriculum on Israel initiated by the public relations department of the Israeli Consulate in New York.The curriculum will be integrated into the training program for educators teaching in 1,400 public high schools in New York City. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3301443,00.html [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10277 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10277 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 10:17:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:17:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Tahltan Great-grandmother Arrested for Joining Mining Blockade Message-ID: <20060912171730.1451.qmail@resist.ca> Ethan Baron | The Province | September 11, 2006 BCMetals Corp. believes the Red Chris mine in northern B.C. contains almost a million tonnes of copper and 1.2 million ounces of gold. But Tahltan elder Lillian Moyer, 67, who was arrested Saturday, says the proposed open-pit operation south of Dease Lake would violate sacred ground, threaten traditional hunting land and ruin fisheries. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10296 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10296 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 12 16:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] National Post Accuses Family of Lebanese-Canadians Killed by Israel of Supporting Terrorism Message-ID: <20060912234012.4238.qmail@resist.ca> Sunday July 16 was the darkest day of my life. I lost 12 members of my family...Their lives were cut short by the Israeli shelling of their hideout from the bombs...What I did not realize at the time...was that in the midst of my dealing with the calamity, National Post writer Barbara Kay published an article three days after the killing of my family about the subject...In it, she had spared no effort to insult the memory of my loved ones who perished in the attack and to accuse me and the surviving remainder of my family of supporting terrorism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10309 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10309 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 13 01:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] War Criminal Celebrates Toronto Birthday Bash While Humanitarian Activist Jailed 22 Years Message-ID: <20060913081704.14271.qmail@resist.ca> It is truly remarkable how liberal types conveniently forget that William Jefferson Clinton has the blood of well over 1 million Iraqis on his hands, a majority of them children under the age of 5. They were killed slowly and painfully through the most devastating economic sanctions in the history of humankind. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10315 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10315 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 13 10:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Air Force chief: Test Weapons on Testy U.S. Mobs Message-ID: <20060913174012.6508.qmail@resist.ca> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday. The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne. "If we're n [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10317 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10317 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 13 10:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Josh Wolf Loses Appeal on Keeping Footage from Grand Jury Message-ID: <20060913174012.6505.qmail@resist.ca> A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by a freelance journalist and activist who was jailed for a month for refusing to provide a grand jury with outtakes of footage he shot at a violent San Francisco protest in July 2005. Josh Wolf, who is now free on bail, will not immediately be sent back to federal prison after the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, one of his attorneys said Monday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10304 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10304 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 13 10:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Three SHAC Activists Sentenced Message-ID: <20060913174013.6514.qmail@resist.ca> Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday. They were also ordered to pay a total of $1 million in restitution to the company and people they terrorized. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10307 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10307 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 14 00:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Republicans Organize "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" on Campus Message-ID: <20060914071709.25706.qmail@resist.ca> "It is disturbing that any group would promote such a divisive and racist event," said (Council on American-Islamic Relations - Michigan) Executive Director, Dawud Walid. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10337 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10337 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 14 01:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Moral Bankruptcy of Israel's Founding Idea: The Coming Collapse of Zionism Message-ID: <20060914081704.16364.qmail@resist.ca> Racism has always been the lifeblood of Israel. Zionism rests on the fundamental belief that Jews have superior national, human, and natural rights in the land, an inherently racist foundation that excludes any possibility of true democracy or equality of peoples. Israel's destructive rampage in Lebanon and Gaza is merely the natural next step in the evolution of such a founding ideology. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10298 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10298 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 14 10:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's plan. Message-ID: <20060914171710.25714.qmail@resist.ca> [![Bush's plan.][1]][2] Bush's roadmap for the Middle East and beyond. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/bushs+roadmap.thumbnail.jpg (Bush's plan.) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10354 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10354 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 14 11:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] South Korea Riot Police Clear U.S. Base Expansion Protesters Message-ID: <20060914184012.22895.qmail@resist.ca> More than 10,000 South Korean riot policemen with shields and batons dislodged about 50 residents and activists from homes on Wednesday during a protest over the expansion of a U.S. military base. The protesters painted "NO USA" on buildings and stood on rooftops in a brief attempt to stop construction crews from tearing down about 90 homes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10340 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10340 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 14 11:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Zimbabwe: Riot Police use Force to Block ZCTU Protests Message-ID: <20060914184012.22901.qmail@resist.ca> SW Radio On Wednesday many labour leaders and opposition officials were arrested and some brutally assaulted by riot police, as people around the country attempted to gather for demonstrations organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10351 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10351 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 15 01:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: "Taliban Taking Over" Message-ID: <20060915081704.9273.qmail@resist.ca> The Taliban have regained control over the southern half of Afghanistan and their frontline is advancing daily, a group closely monitoring the Afghan situation said in a report Tuesday...The report...says also that "a humanitarian crisis of starvation and poverty has gripped the south of the country." The report blames "the U.S. and UK-led failed counter-narcotics and military policies" for this situation... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10370 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10370 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 15 08:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] BOLIVIA: Right-wing Push against Morales Message-ID: <20060915154010.4163.qmail@resist.ca> Federico Fuentes | Green Left Weekly | September 13, 2006. A growing conspiracy to destabilise the government of Bolivia?s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to be reaching a climax. On September 1 right-wing opposition deputies withdrew from the country?s constituent assembly, returning to their traditional trenches in the east, in order to move from a war of words to one of actions. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10379 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10379 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 15 08:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Life Is A Video Game - The Dawson College Shooter Message-ID: <20060915154010.4161.qmail@resist.ca> "Meet The Dawson College Shooter" "Life is a video game, you've got to die sometime." That sums it up...we are all becoming victims of Doom and other first person shooter games. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10371 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10371 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 15 16:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] A Vaccine Against Narcotics Message-ID: <20060915231705.6514.qmail@resist.ca> We're close to a controversial tool against addiction and overdose. September 15, 2006 TheTyee.ca Someday, along with jabs against mumps and measles, kids could get vaccinated against nicotine, cocaine and heroin. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10378 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10378 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 15 16:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why I Hate America Message-ID: <20060915231705.6515.qmail@resist.ca> I hate America for its unconditional support for Israel. I hate its bogus two-party system, its one-size-fits-all culture, and its income gap. I could go on for pages but I'll sum up with this: I hate America for being a hypocritical white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10381 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10381 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 16 15:17:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] The American Military's Cult of Cruelty Message-ID: <20060916221723.15023.qmail@resist.ca> In the week that George Bush took to fantasising that his blood-soaked "war on terror" would lead the 21st century into a "shining age of human liberty" I went through my mail bag to find a frightening letter addressed to me by an American veteran...Put simply, my American friend believes the change of military creed under the Bush administration...is encouraging American troops to commit atrocities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10409 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10409 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 16 16:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Imperialism 101: The U.S. Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness (Part I) Message-ID: <20060916231716.25500.qmail@resist.ca> The way (the US) now engages throughout the world isn't much different than what it's done close to home and worldwide since inception. Only the venues chosen, the scope of our aims, and the extent of our power have changed. This article in two parts gives some historical perspective and then concentrates on the imperial grand strategy of the Bush administration under which regime change is a central element. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10397 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10397 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 16 18:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian "Human Rights" Group Champions Cause of Haiti's Elite Message-ID: <20060917011708.26484.qmail@resist.ca> Whose rights? What sort of democracy?...These are the questions that must be asked of ?Rights & Democracy,? a Montreal-based political group funded almost entirely by the Canadian government...This week Rights and Democracy has taken part in a smear campaign against a study released in the Lancet medical journal detailing the terrible human rights situation in the 22 months after Haiti?s elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide?s ouster. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10426 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10426 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 16 20:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Diebold Voting-Machine Hack Message-ID: <20060917034009.10940.qmail@resist.ca> Warm John writes to mention a short article on Doctor Dobbs Journal about the Hack that couldn't be done. "Hacking a Diebold voting machine was the focus of Cigital's Gary McGraw's keynote at SD Best Practices. He discussed 'Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine,' a paper released by Edward Felten, Ari Feldman, and Alex Halderman of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10423 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10423 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 16 20:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping Message-ID: <20060917034009.10943.qmail@resist.ca> LividBlivet writes, "The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that not only authorizes, but extends, US warrentless wiretapping. No accountability. No oversight. No definition of 'terrorist.' No record of who voted for what. Great way to devolve a democratic republic into a fascist theocracy. Me worried? Yea." Here is the text of SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (PDF). Confusin [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10420 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10420 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 17 12:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] More News Feeds Added to Mostly Water Message-ID: <20060917191706.30483.qmail@resist.ca> Mostly Water has updated the selection of news feeds that you can read through our site. You can see an updated list of all the feeds [here][1]. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/aggregator2/sources [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10592 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10592 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 17 16:17:54 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:17:54 -0000 Subject: [news] South Africa: African National Congress Cannot Keep its Promises of Social Justice Message-ID: <20060917231754.7718.qmail@resist.ca> The African National Congress is losing the support of its communist and trade union allies in South Africa after 12 years in power. The growth rate there is rising impressively but economic divisions within society are deep and rapidly worsening..."Society has been restructured,"..."Where once it was rigidly divided along racial lines, it is now split just as clearly into social classes." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10594 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10594 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 17 16:17:54 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:17:54 -0000 Subject: [news] Blind Man Assaulted by Skypigs Still Waiting for Outcome of Complaint Message-ID: <20060917231754.7719.qmail@resist.ca> (William) Conway, who has been blind since he was eight, said nothing could have prepared him for the alleged February 22 assault following a night- time exchange of words with two SkyTrain constables at Joyce Station who questioned whether his German shepherd was a certified guide dog...?They tried to break my wrist. They tried to choke me out of consciousness,? said Conway... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10595 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10595 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 17 22:17:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Echoes of War from Beirut to Montreal. Message-ID: <20060918051715.15946.qmail@resist.ca> This edition of Radio Tadamon! features sounds from Beirut recorded during the height of the Israeli assault on Lebanon & voices from the streets of Montreal recorded during multiple solidarity demonstrations with the Lebanese people. Featuring multiple voices & interviews from Beirut which provide a picture of the first days of the Israeli 2006 attack, the present-day impacts of the war on the people of Lebanon, voices of international solidarity from the streets of Montreal & interviews providing important historical context / political background to the 2006 Israeli assault on Lebanon. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10623 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10623 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 18 08:40:39 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:40:39 -0000 Subject: [news] First Nations B.C.'s First Urban Treaty Heads for Vote Message-ID: <20060918154039.13829.qmail@resist.ca> By Tom Fletcher | Black Press | Sep 10 2006 VICTORIA ? The public should get a look at the proposed text of the province?s first-ever urban treaty within a month, B.C.?s new minister for aboriginal relations said Thursday. Mike de Jong took over the portfolio in last month?s cabinet shuffle, just as federal, provincial and Tsawwassen First Nation negotiators were wrapping up years of treaty talks over land and cash settlement to the community of 270 people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10627 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10627 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 18 18:40:31 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:40:31 -0000 Subject: [news] War is Not a Solution for Terrorism (War IS Terrorism) Message-ID: <20060919014031.1753.qmail@resist.ca> (I)f an action will inevitably kill innocent people, it is as immoral as a deliberate attack on civilians. And when you consider that the number of innocent people dying inevitably in "accidental" events has been far, far greater than all the deaths deliberately caused by terrorists, one must reject war as a solution for terrorism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10656 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10656 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 18 19:17:21 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] The Crusade of Pope Rat: Defender of the West, Scourge of Islam Message-ID: <20060919021721.9679.qmail@resist.ca> One increasingly expects historical distortion and hypocrisy in the speeches of Bush administration officials. The effort to depict the Terror War as a war on "Islamofascism" shows their desperation. They must be delighted to hear the Pope conflate Christianity, the west, and Reason explicitly while implicitly linking Islam, violence, and irrational intolerance. How sweet that His Holiness's erudition should elliptically reference Iran, while the Bush administration prepares to attack it! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10658 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10658 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 11:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Carbon Trading Scheme a Sop to King Coal Message-ID: <20060919181711.22092.qmail@resist.ca> On August 16, NSW Premier Morris Iemma, South Australian Premier Mike Rann and Victorian deputy premier John Thwaites launched a discussion paper on the possibility of establishing a national CO2 emissions trading scheme that would aim to cut Australia's CO2 emissions by 60% by mid-century. While the scheme is an attempt to differentiate these Labor state governments from the federal Coalition government's inaction on climate change, it is based on a fundamentally flawed approach which purportedly relies on ?the market? to solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions but which, in fact, continues in the Liberal-Labor tradition of government support for coal-fired electricity generation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10494 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10494 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 11:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights: Something is not Quite Rght, on another Canadian Campus Message-ID: <20060919181711.22094.qmail@resist.ca> Tarek Lubani interviewed by Justin Podur | September 17, 2006 | ZNet The University of Western Ontario is a medium-sized University campus at which typical campus activism takes place. Like many North American campuses, activism on Israel/Palestine is a feature of campus life. Also like many North American campuses, suppressing such activism seems to be a priority for the establishment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10723 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10723 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 11:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Non-violent Protests in Palestine have become Testing Ground for Experimental Weapons Message-ID: <20060919181712.22098.qmail@resist.ca> Every Friday for the [past two years][1], the people in a number of Palestinian villages have engaged in [weekly non-violent protests against the Israeli Wall][2] being built on their land. The Israeli military response has always been disproportionate, but in recent weeks has taken on a frightening new aspect: each week, the protesters gather at the site of Wall construction chanting slogans and holding Palestinian flags, wondering what new [experimental 'non-lethal' weaponry][3] or [brutal new tactic][4] will be tried on them this week. [read more][5] [1]: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8568 [2]: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer240/blecher.html [3]: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/01/experimental-weapons/ [4]: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/02/lymor-update/ [5]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10717 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10717 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 11:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Oaxaca=E2=80=99s?= Cry for Independence Message-ID: <20060919181711.22096.qmail@resist.ca> More Than Ever, it Is the People Who Govern this State By Nancy Davies | Commentary from Oaxaca | September 18, 2006 "OK, I?ll just offer an observation, which is that Oaxaca state is now governed by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials), not the PRI." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10646 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10646 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 11:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] =?iso-8859-1?q?UK=3A_=C2=A3600=2C000_for_Shop_Stewards_Fi?= =?iso-8859-1?q?red_over_Gate_Gourmet_Strike?= Message-ID: <20060919181711.22093.qmail@resist.ca> Guardian Two former shop stewards who brought British Airways operations from Heathrow to a halt for two days last summer in a wildcat strike are to receive secret "hush money" payments worth ?600,000 from the Transport & General Workers' Union and the airline. The shop stewards, Pat Breslin and Mark Fisher, were alleged to be following union orders by organising the illegal action as part [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10635 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10635 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 11:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] What's Really Propping Up The Economy Message-ID: <20060919181712.22099.qmail@resist.ca> If you really want to understand what makes the U.S. economy tick these days, don't go to Silicon Valley, Wall Street, or Washington. Just take a short trip to your local hospital. Park where you don't block the ambulances, and watch the unending flow of doctors, nurses, technicians, and support personnel. You'll have a front-row seat at the health-care economy. Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10675 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10675 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 19 13:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages Message-ID: <20060919201710.29985.qmail@resist.ca> An anonymous reader writes, "The UK Guardian is running an excerpt from the new book "Heat" by George Monbiot (to be published later this month) spelling out the network of funding opposing global action against global warming -- specifically, limits on human carbon dioxide generation. The excerpt outlines a web of fake citizens' groups and bogus (but authoritative sounding) research institutes designed to convince laypeople that human causation of global warming is scientifically controversial. Not surprisingly, the article notes funding by ExxonMobil. More interesting is the role played big tobacco, tying their attack on the health risks of second-hand smoke to global warming skepticism." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10753 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10753 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 20 01:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Asian Women Face 'Model Minority' Pressures Message-ID: <20060920084012.9263.qmail@resist.ca> Historically...Asian American women face conflicting sexual stereotypes that force many to juggle their identities between a seductive and treacherous dragon lady and the soft, lotus blossom character made famous by the century-old "Madame Butterfly" story, in which a submissive Japanese woman falls for a white man and commits suicide when she loses her love. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10802 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10802 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 20 09:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Federal NDP Convention Message-ID: <20060920161704.21336.qmail@resist.ca> Corvin Russell provides an overview of the recent convention, from the attempt to build a personality cult around the Leader to the motion calling for Canadian troops to leave Afghanistan. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10800 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10800 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 20 09:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] HP and Apple's toxic laptops exposed Message-ID: <20060920161704.21337.qmail@resist.ca> Some of the best-known laptops are contaminated with some of the worst toxic chemicals. Of the five top brands we tested Hewlett-Packard and Apple laptops showed the worst contamination levels. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10794 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10794 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 20 10:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II Message-ID: <20060920174013.23898.qmail@resist.ca> Part II on extended article on US imperialism focusing on the war in Iraq. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10804 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10804 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 20 10:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Russia to Open World Nuke Co-op Message-ID: <20060920174013.23900.qmail@resist.ca> [Putin has taken a page from the book of Hugo Chavez and plans a regional cooperative that will enrich uranium for newly nuclear nations. An interesting idea, which might go a long way toward blunting the USA's hysterical accusations against any nation it doesn't like that wants to have nuclear energy. -NY Transfer] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10809 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10809 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 09:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous Resurgence! Message-ID: <20060921161711.29404.qmail@resist.ca> The September-October issue of New Socialist is a special issue guest-edited by Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard and Deborah Simmons. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10799 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10799 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 09:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Riot Case Papuans "Beaten by Police" Message-ID: <20060921161711.29403.qmail@resist.ca> INDONESIAN police have been driven by revenge and their own personal interests in a series of show trials over the deaths of four police and an air force sergeant in May riots, a new report claims. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10845 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10845 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 09:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] The Tale of the Little Wisp of a Cloud Message-ID: <20060921161711.29405.qmail@resist.ca> ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a cloud who was very tiny and very lonely and used to stray far from the big clouds. She was very little, barely a wisp of a cloud. And whenever the big clouds made themselves rain so as to paint the mountains green, the little cloud would come flying to offer her services. But they scorned her because she was so small. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10848 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10848 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 09:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada "Heading Toward Disaster" in Afghanistan Message-ID: <20060921161712.29406.qmail@resist.ca> ![joya1_fp.jpg][1]Prominent Afghan MP says Canada "needs to prove it is a friend of Afghan people" by ending support for fundamentalist warlords. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/joya1_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10841 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10841 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 22:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Threatened to Bomb Pakistan Message-ID: <20060922054009.18742.qmail@resist.ca> The United States threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, (Pakistan's) President Pervez Musharraf says..."(Pakistan's) intelligence director told me that (State Department official Richard) Armitage said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age'," (said Musharraf)...The US envoy also insisted that Pakistan suppress domestic expression of support for attacks on the United States, he said. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10878 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10878 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 23:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Months in Jail for Dumpster Diving Message-ID: <20060922061707.25964.qmail@resist.ca> Two foraging dumpster divers were recently sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and were hit with a fine for 'stealing' food that had been thrown out by a fruit shop in Colorado. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10879 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10879 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 21 23:40:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:40:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Sales of Chomsky Book Spike After Chavez Book Review at U.N. Message-ID: <20060922064007.29534.qmail@resist.ca> Author Noam Chomsky got an unexpected boost in sales after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cited one of his books in a speech to the UN General Assembly...At the start of his talk Wednesday, Chavez held up a book by Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, and recommended it to everyone in the General Assembly, as well as to the American people. [Chavez' speech to the United Nations General Assembly follows]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10880 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10880 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 22 10:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Buys Another Military Upgrade, Just In Case Message-ID: <20060922171705.26760.qmail@resist.ca> Sometimes, it's hard to tell if Chavez is scared, insane or one of the boldest strategists to ever lead a nation. The day after [calling Bush the "Devil"][1], he has confirmed that "that the Venezuelan government was currently negotiating the purchase of Russian military hardware including planes and helicopters [...] in addition to the $3 billion worth of equipment agreed with Russia in July." [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10880 [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10905 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10905 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 22 13:40:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] I'm here because of Lillian, I fight because Lillian fought Message-ID: <20060922204016.4453.qmail@resist.ca> ![Lillian Robinso][1]**** It is with sadness that I write to you all that a dear friend and comrade, Lillian Robinson, died Wednesday morning of ovarian cancer. I feel compelled to write because I feel that where I am at this particular point in my life is very much the result of Lillian, and for that I am grateful. [read more][2] [1]: http://aaron.resist.ca/sites/aaron.resist.ca/files/images//photo.robinson.jpg (Lillian Robinso) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10891 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10891 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 22 15:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Paraguay: Bulwark of U.S. Imperialism? Message-ID: <20060922221706.8411.qmail@resist.ca> No official honors were paid to (former Paraguayan dictator) Alfredo Stroessner upon his death in exile in Brasilia on Aug.16. But Paraguay today is still essentially the country he created -- its economy, poverty and corruption all containing particular Stroessner-era traits. And once again it has become a symbolic bulwark against America's foreign enemies...As militarization advances memories of Stroessner's brutal anti-guerrila campaigns have resurfaced. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10919 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10919 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 22 15:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Homelessness on the Rise in Vancouver Message-ID: <20060922224009.13296.qmail@resist.ca> A new report by the Pivot Legal Society suggests there could be more than 3,000 people living on the streets by the time the Winter Olympics begin. The numbers are based on projections that 1,600 units of low-income housing will be lost in the next four years. [PIVOT Press Release follows news report]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10920 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10920 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 23 11:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Arar Report: What's Missing? Message-ID: <20060923181704.25775.qmail@resist.ca> Dozens of 'omissions' conceal what kind and how much info was denied the public. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10900 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10900 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 23 11:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Clinton to Start $1 Billion Renewable Energy Fund Message-ID: <20060923181704.25776.qmail@resist.ca> antifoidulus writes "ABC news is reporting that former President Bill Clinton has announced the creation of a $1 Billion investment fund devoted to renewable energy. This will be an investment fund as opposed to charity, and Clinton has said that 'The Green Fund would focus on reducing dependence on fossil fuels, creating jobs, lessening pollution and helping to reduce global warming, all while making a profit.' Former World Bank President James D. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10943 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10943 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 23 14:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] From the New "Anti-Semitism" to Nuclear Holocaust: How Israel is Engineering the "Clash of Civilizations" Message-ID: <20060923214012.26622.qmail@resist.ca> What distinguished the new anti-Semitism from traditional anti-Jewish racism was that this time it embraced the progressive left rather than the far right....An ever-present but largely latent Western anti-Semitism was being stoked into frenzy by the growing political and intellectual influence of extremist Muslim immigrants. The implication was that an unholy alliance had been spawned between the left and militant Islam. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10951 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10951 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 24 11:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Pressures Mount on Bush to Bomb Iran Message-ID: <20060924184008.19140.qmail@resist.ca> President George W Bush is coming under enormous pressure from Israel - and from Israel's neoconservative friends inside and outside the US administration - to harden still further his stance toward Iran. They want the American president to commit himself to bombing Iran if it does not give up its program of uranium enrichment... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11030 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11030 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 24 12:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Novella Causing Stir with Smurfs Message-ID: <20060924191703.25226.qmail@resist.ca> The publication of a Canadian novella has attracted mail from angry Jehovah's Witnesses, who claim that they are no longer afraid of Smurfs, and that the book portrays them as cartoon-fearing radicals. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11029 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11029 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 24 12:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada in Haiti: Torture, Murder and Complicity Message-ID: <20060924191704.25227.qmail@resist.ca> Does the Canadian-promoted "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine include murder, rape, and threats of violence?...That's the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical journal released at the end of August revealed there were 8,000 murders, 35,000 rapes and thousands of incidents of armed threats in the 22 months after the overthrow of the elected government in Haiti. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11033 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11033 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 25 12:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Done Deal Undone: GVRD Takes Strong Stand Against Freeway Expansion. Message-ID: <20060925194011.25446.qmail@resist.ca> In a surprise move, the (Greater Vancouver Regional District) has taken a strong stand against the expansion of Highway 1 and the twinning of the Port Mann Bridge. Additionally, the call for study and development of smarter, cleaner solutions demonstrates a dedication to the Livable Region Strategic Plan. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11044 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11044 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 24 12:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] De-recruiter Wins Long Haul Prize Message-ID: <20060924194012.11663.qmail@resist.ca> De-recruiter Wins Long Haul Prize The director of the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County counts at least 400 people she's "de-recruited" from the military, a statistic that helped her win this year's Long Haul Prize given to the most active activist in politically active Northern California. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11035 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11035 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 24 13:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Those That Don't Share "Australian Values" Should "Clear Off:" Australian Government Steps Up Attacks on Muslims Message-ID: <20060924204009.22030.qmail@resist.ca> Australian Prime Minister John Howard has used the Pope's association of Islam with violence as another opportunity to target Muslims, criticising them for overreacting. This fits into a pattern. Since July 2005, his conservative Coalition Government has been explicitly generating hostility to Muslims in Australia. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11038 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11038 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 25 01:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Cops Taser Teen Message-ID: <20060925081705.2901.qmail@resist.ca> Amnesty International is questioning the repeated use of a Taser gun on a 17-year-old boy by police officers at a house party in Hampton, N.B...Amnesty spokesman Andy Buxton says nobody should be hit with the weapon, which can deliver up to 50,000 volts of electricity in one shot, especially vulnerable groups like children, teenagers and the elderly. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11059 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11059 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 25 12:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuelan Foreign Minister Illegally Detained at JFK Airport and Strip-Searched Message-ID: <20060925194011.25463.qmail@resist.ca> (E)arly Saturday evening...Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Madura was prevented by airport officials from departing the US from JFK airport on a commercial flight on Saturday following the UN General Assembly meeting. He said officials demanded he surrender his ticket and boarding pass claiming his name was on a so-called "red list." He was then illegally detained, taken to a small room and strip-searched despite his strong protests after having clearly identified who he was. He explained once he did, his treatment only got worse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11074 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11074 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 25 18:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds Message-ID: <20060926014009.32309.qmail@resist.ca> Thundgelmir writes "Yahoo news has an article about how pirate radio is taking on the FCC. It describes the growing trend of low-power FM stations, and their crusade to be heard across the country and around the internet." From the article: "Over four days, a dozen men and women shyly bumped shoulders as they studied schematics and tinkered with romex connectors, resistors, microphone cords, meters, sockets and capacitors -- the stuff of illegal radio stations. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11062 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11062 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 01:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Human Rights Watch on Lebanon: Still Missing the Point Message-ID: <20060926081706.21388.qmail@resist.ca> In a(n)...article criticising Human Rights Watch for singling out Hizbullah rather than Israel for harsher condemnation of its military actions during the Lebanon war, I made sure to quote the organisation fairly and accurately before seeking to refute its arguments. Unfortunately, in her recent response (re-printed below) HRW's Middle East policy director, Sarah Leah Whitson, did not return the favour. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11100 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11100 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 10:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] A Massacre is Police Response to Gang Violence Message-ID: <20060926174008.27038.qmail@resist.ca> Police in the Brazilian state of S?o Paulo summarily executed scores, possibly hundreds, of people in May of this year as part of their response to a wave of attacks by a criminal network against the state. [A] commission will say the evidence shows many of these deaths were summary killings of people with no link to organised crime, apparently selected because they had previous police records or because they were residents of neighbourhoods long subjected to police violence. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11115 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11115 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 10:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Brit Soldiers Sold Guns for Coke and Cash Message-ID: <20060926174008.27030.qmail@resist.ca> BRITISH soldiers have been caught smuggling stolen guns out of Iraq and allegedly exchanging them for cocaine and cash on the black market. Their alleged involvement with organised crime is a fresh blow to the British Army after a week in which a corporal from the Duke of Lancaster?s Regiment admitted he had committed a war crime against an Iraqi civilian. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11114 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11114 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 11:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Mayans Occupy Canadian-Owned Mine Message-ID: <20060926181704.2013.qmail@resist.ca> Hundreds of families of Mayan Indians have occupied part of a large nickel mine owned by a Canadian company in Guatemala and demanded they be given land for subsistence farms. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11086 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11086 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 11:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's Own Church Calls to Withdraw Troops from Iraq Message-ID: <20060926181705.2014.qmail@resist.ca> September 25, 2006 [![Jesus Bush Christ: Who would Jesus bomb? Some have considered this guy to make a good first target.][1]][2]**Jesus Bush Christ: **Who would Jesus bomb? Some have considered this guy to make a good first target. United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace in the capital, urging President Bush to pull US troops out of the country. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/jesus+bush+christ.jpg (Jesus Bush Christ: Who would Jesus bomb? Some have considered this guy to make a good first target.) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11117 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11117 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 11:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Secret Meeting of US-Canada-Mexico Corps & Military Revealed Message-ID: <20060926181705.2015.qmail@resist.ca> Mexico, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) Two weeks ago advisors of Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon participated in a secret meeting in Canada, where representatives of huge corporations and the US military stratum sought to strengthen North American integration, La Jornada daily disclosed. According to the paper, the encounter, held September 12-14, proposed creating a stable zone to supply oil to Washington. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11118 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11118 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 26 11:40:28 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:40:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchists Kidnap Attendee during Communist Speech Message-ID: <20060926184029.7520.qmail@resist.ca> On Friday, September 22nd, two people wearing camo fatigues, combat boots, and black ski masks rushed into the Internationalist Bookstore of Chapel Hill, NC and kidnapped [a planted] audience member during the beginning of a presentation by members of the Marxist-Leninist Freedom Road Socialist Organization. The presentation was primarily directed at encouraging support and loyalty to the FARC-EP, [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11072 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11072 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 27 13:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Was U.S. Labor Involved in the 2002 Coup Attempt in Venezuela? Message-ID: <20060927204012.13699.qmail@resist.ca> This article addresses the question of possible (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) involvement in the (Venezuela) coup attempt...To do this, the paper proceeds in the following directions: (A) it discusses the AFL-CIO's foreign policy program and its history of foreign interventions; (B) it considers evidence of the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center staff activities in Venezuela prior to the coup attempt, and the coup attempt itself; (C) reports AFL-CIO statements as well as others' concerning the coup attempt that followed, and subsequent analyses of the coup and US involvement; and (D) it answers the question as to whether the AFL-CIO...was involved in the 2002 coup attempt. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11173 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11173 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 07:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Philippines: Wal-Mart Factory Workers Assaulted, Fired for Striking Message-ID: <20060928144009.15820.qmail@resist.ca> Maquila Solidarity Network This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully picketing outside the factory gates as the police escorted scab replacement workers into the factory. According the Philippine Workers? Assistance Centre (WAC), 22 union members were injured in the attack. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11183 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11183 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 07:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Somali Community Takes on Security Goons! Message-ID: <20060928144010.15829.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1] _Photo: RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR >From left, Faduma Mohamed, Haimil Hirsi and Ismail Mohamed are among residents who are under siege by security guards._ **Interview with Amina Ali of OCAP Women of Etobicoke** On Friday, September 22, hundreds of people at Dixon and Kipling in Etobicoke turned out to confront the Intelligarde security guards that have a long and ugly history of harassing, hurting and intimidating the residents of poor communities they are imposed on. Amina Ali is one of the main OCAP organizers in Etobicoke and played a key role in the recent mobilization. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.ocap.ca/files/star_picture_harassment.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11190 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11190 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 07:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] IDF Takes $1.5M in Palestinian Bank Heists Message-ID: <20060928144009.15821.qmail@resist.ca> ALI DARAGHMEH Associated Press, 20 September 2006 Nablus -- Israeli troops raided the homes and offices of 14 money changers in the West Bank early Wednesday, confiscating nearly $1.5 million (euro1.2 million) the army said came mostly from Iran and was earmarked for terrorism.At least eight currency exchange offices and a small bank were destroyed in the raids in Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem and Ramallah. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/10937 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/10937 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 07:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Fewer Doctor Visits Approved for Rural, Isolated Towns Message-ID: <20060928144010.15837.qmail@resist.ca> A lot of small towns in B.C. rely on the care of visiting family doctors and specialists. It's the only alternative to flying or busing people miles to medical centres. But this year the B.C. government has lowered the number of approved doctor visits to rural and isolated communities, according to a Health Ministry report obtained by The Tyee. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11159 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11159 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 07:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Soldier Describes Why He Abandoned Military Over Afghan Mission Message-ID: <20060928144010.15833.qmail@resist.ca> ZNet | by Alexander Panetta; September 26, 2006 QUEBEC (CP) - Francisco Juarez bristles at being labelled Canada's first Afghanistan war resister. But the 35-year-old former army reserve member is proud to have turned his back on the military because he doesn't believe in the Afghan mission. During a training session earlier this year at Gagetown, N.B., he refused to walk onto an obstacle course and told his commanding officer: I no longer wish to participate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11153 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11153 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 19:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Two Different Models of Development: Venezuela & South Africa Message-ID: <20060929021704.10912.qmail@resist.ca> Traveling to both Venezuela and South Africa this past summer...I was able to observe firsthand two radically different approaches to "third world" development: a "redistributive approach" in Venezuela, and a set of basically neo-liberal economic policies in South Africa...(T)he comparison begged for comment, as the differences were extremely obvious...In Venezuela, I saw hope among the poor; in South Africa, dejection and dissatisfaction. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11238 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11238 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 28 23:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadians Should Pay NOT to be Poisoned: New Democratic Party Message-ID: <20060929064010.16150.qmail@resist.ca> So what is Jack?s plan to remove trans fats from the food supply? Some legislation banning its use? Some big black warning labels on food products? Maybe encourage a lawsuit on behalf of the many Canadians sickened by company greed? No, that would be bad for business. Jack?s plan is much better. Corporate handouts. That is right, Jack wants [you to pay][1] these billion dollar companies to stop poisoning you. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200609/20060925_NDP_Trans_Fat.htm [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11249 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11249 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 29 00:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Republic of Fear Message-ID: <20060929071704.22088.qmail@resist.ca> The republic of fear is born again. The state of terror now gripping Iraq is as bad as it was under Saddam Hussein...The bodies in Baghdad's morgue "often bear signs of severe torture including acid-induced injuries and burns caused by chemical substances, missing skin, broken bones (back, hands and legs), missing eyes and wounds caused by power drills or nails"...Those not killed by these abuses are shot in the head. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11251 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11251 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 29 00:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Giving Terrorism a Reason to Exist Message-ID: <20060929074008.7545.qmail@resist.ca> According to a report by 16 U.S. Spy agencies leaked to The New York Times, the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped create more global terrorism and energize jihadist ideology throughout the world since the 9/11 attacks...The report...also supports what critics of the war, especially dissenting U.S. veterans, have been saying all along, that the war in Iraq is actually creating more terrorism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11254 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11254 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 29 10:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: The Other Lost War Message-ID: <20060929174011.18316.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman How the US Plundered Afghanistan in the Name of Liberation [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11256 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11256 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 29 11:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Did Israel Blow Up Gaza's Power Station? Message-ID: <20060929181708.25646.qmail@resist.ca> Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine By JONATHAN COOK | CounterPunch The problem with the "revenge" theory is that, however much a rebuke it is, it presupposes a degree of good faith on the part of the vengeance-seeker. You steal my toy in the playground, and I lash out and hit you. [...] There is [...] the implication that, though my action was unwarranted, my fury was justified. But why should we think Israel is acting in good faith, even if in bad temper, in destroying Gaza's power station? Why should we assume it was a hot-headed over-reaction rather than a coldly calculated deed? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11266 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11266 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 29 22:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] UN-Justice in Canada Message-ID: <20060930054009.8471.qmail@resist.ca> ![swear2large_fp.jpg][1]**Kim Petersen** investigates Canada's opposition to the United Nations Draft Declaration of Indigenous Rights. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/swear2large_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11286 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11286 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 29 22:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] CIDA spending in Afghanistan is private Information Message-ID: <20060930054009.8481.qmail@resist.ca> Canadians curious to know how development money is being spent in Afghanistan are out of luck, according to the CBC. Amir Attaran, a professor at the University of Ottawa, filed an access to information request as part of his research on the Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) spending in Afghanistan. CIDA has spent almost $300 million in the country. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11287 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11287 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 30 00:17:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Flying Saucers and the Decline of the Left Message-ID: <20060930071712.22909.qmail@resist.ca> The world is in tumult, but here in the heart of Empire the level of creative political energy runs flat along the bottom of the graph...It's as dismal a political landscape as I can remember in thirty years. Yet some discover a silver lining. They find it in the 9/11 conspiracy cult...(I)t seems to demobilize people from useful political activity. I think the nuttishness stems from despair and political infantilism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11294 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11294 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 30 00:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Lebanese Montrealer Speaks Out on Family Killed in Israeli Air Strike Message-ID: <20060930074014.8716.qmail@resist.ca> Twelve members of Hassan El-Akhras's family were killed on July 16, when an Israeli bomb landed on their home in Aytaroun in southern Lebanon...The (McGill) Daily sat down with El-Akhras to talk about his family, the bombing, and what to do next. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11297 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11297 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 30 15:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Family Values & the Socially Conservative Male Message-ID: <20060930221704.8962.qmail@resist.ca> My subject is the so-called conservative male, by which I mean the social conservative...The depravity of the conservative male is in exact counter-proportion to the degree of righteousness towards which that conservative pretends. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11311 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11311