From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 1 00:18:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:18:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Arabs Despair of US Even More Message-ID: <20080801071810.6788.qmail@resist.ca> CAIRO - For decades, the U.S. has jealously guarded its role of sole arbiter of the Arab-Israeli dispute. In light of recent shows of support for Israel by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, however, many Arabs fear that Zionist influence on the U.S. body politic ? across the political spectrum ? has made the notion of ?U.S. even-handedness? a contradiction in terms. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/arabs_despair_us_even_more URL: http://mostlywater.org/arabs_despair_us_even_more From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 1 13:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kink, BDSM and Anarchism Message-ID: <20080801201704.22110.qmail@resist.ca> >From Subversivesub It always makes me a little irritated when I see BDSM misrepresented in the mainstream media. It makes me sad to see feminists critiquing other women for their kinky sexual orientations/practices. But it breaks my fucking heart when I see anarchists doing it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bdsm_and_anarchism URL: http://mostlywater.org/bdsm_and_anarchism From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 1 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "Quiet Ethnic Cleansing": Palestinians Face Home Demolitions Spree by Israel Message-ID: <20080801201704.22111.qmail@resist.ca> By JONATHAN COOK - August 1, 2008 "Illegal building is simply a pretext for destroying Palestinian families' homes and lives"..."The demolitions are part of a policy to stop the natural expansion of Palestinian communities in and around Jerusalem, freeing up the maximum amount of land for use by Israeli settlers"..."The demolitions increase the pressure on Palestinians to move into the West Bank, so that they will lose their residency rights in the city." --**Jeff Halper**, head of the _Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions_ (ICAHD) [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/quiet_ethnic_cleansing_palestinians_face_home_demolitions_spree_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/quiet_ethnic_cleansing_palestinians_face_home_demolitions_spree_israel From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 1 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] WTO: After almost 8 Years, Doha is Dead Message-ID: <20080801201704.22113.qmail@resist.ca> Asia Times | By Gustavo Capdevila Conceived in the Qatari capital in November 2001 with the aim of sending a message of solidarity to a world shaken by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the Doha Round of talks is failing against a backdrop of threats of new crises involving food and oil prices and climate change. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/wto_after_almost_8_years_doha_dead URL: http://mostlywater.org/wto_after_almost_8_years_doha_dead From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 1 14:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Peguis First Nation Ignores INAC to Bring Back Banishing as Punishment Message-ID: <20080801211705.3817.qmail@resist.ca> Ahni In recent years, the Peguis First Nation, a community of 7,200 in northern Manitoba, has been faced with a drug abuse epidemic. Last fall, [...t]he northern community opted to enact a bylaw that stipulates banishment as a penalty for anyone caught dealing drugs, and that requires all band members to pass a drug-screening test. Northern and Indian Affairs Canada (INAC) is not impressed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/peguis_first_nation_has_right_idea%E2%80%A6_ignore_inac URL: http://mostlywater.org/peguis_first_nation_has_right_idea%E2%80%A6_ignore_inac From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 1 17:18:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:18:04 -0000 Subject: [news] When Torture Was Practiced on U.S. Soil Message-ID: <20080802001805.13328.qmail@resist.ca> By Howard Lisnoff - July 26, 2008 When cases of torture were reported at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp...I was not surprised. When detainees there were originally denied Constitutional rights and rights under the Geneva Conventions, I was not shocked, knowing just how far the government and military could go in inflicting punishment at bases in the U.S. and around the world. The military had inflicted abuse on its own soldiers during the Vietnam War, targeting those who did not fit the mold of military discipline...[W]hen reports of torture and abuse by the military at Abu Ghraib prison...were reported, once again I knew that none of this was new and had been practiced on U.S. soil. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/when_torture_was_practiced_us_soil URL: http://mostlywater.org/when_torture_was_practiced_us_soil From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 2 13:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US Agents Can Seize =?utf-8?b?VHJhdmVsZXJz4oCZ?= Laptops Message-ID: <20080802201706.7550.qmail@resist.ca> by Ellen Nakashima | Washington Post WASHINGTON - Federal agents may take a traveler?s laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed. Also, officials may share copies of the laptop?s contents with other agencies and private entities... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_agents_can_seize_travelers%E2%80%99_laptops_reporttravelers%E2%80%99_laptops_may_be_detained_at_borderno_suspicion_required_under_dhs_policie URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_agents_can_seize_travelers%E2%80%99_laptops_reporttravelers%E2%80%99_laptops_may_be_detained_at_borderno_suspicion_required_under_dhs_policie From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 2 14:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Youth and Supporters of Indigenous: Beware of Cops in Sheep's Clothing Message-ID: <20080802211704.21126.qmail@resist.ca> by katenies - Mohawk Nation News MNN. July 20, 2008. Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino?s fascistic actions against Indigenous people are not new. His illegal dirty tricks to trap Mohawks and Shawn Brant in particular have been developed and practiced in cop training school. He?s following an old pattern. Really old. Cops are basically well-paid thugs. We?ve seen some of the police training videos. Police are trained to instigate violence. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/youth_and_supporters_indigenous_beware_cops_sheeps_clothing_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/youth_and_supporters_indigenous_beware_cops_sheeps_clothing_0 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 2 21:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Partners for Imperium: =?utf-8?b?QuKAmW5haQ==?= Brith Canada and the Christian Right Message-ID: <20080803041705.3480.qmail@resist.ca> By Stephen Scheinberg - Outlook: Canada?s Progressive Jewish Magazine When a recording was produced of [Rev. John] Hagee stating that God had sent Adolph Hitler to help the Jews reach the Promised Land, this proved too much for [Republican Presidential candidate John] McCain to stomach. Yet here in Canada, **B?nai Brith**, led by **Frank Dimant**, carries on an active association with Hagee?s close Canadian associates, who are cut from the same clerical cloth. Their alliance is based on a common outlook of what they believe is good for Israel and to a lesser extent, on a common social conservative political agenda linking them to the Conservative Party. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/partners_imperium_b%E2%80%99nai_brith_canada_and_christian_right URL: http://mostlywater.org/partners_imperium_b%E2%80%99nai_brith_canada_and_christian_right From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 3 00:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: Poised to Explode Message-ID: <20080803071704.19011.qmail@resist.ca> By Robert Dreyfuss - Znet Despite the [o]ptimism of the Neocons, which has pushed mainstream media coverage to be increasingly flowery about Iraq's political progress, in fact the country is poised to explode...Depending on its choosing, between now and November Iran can help stabilize the war in Iraq ? mostly by urging the Iraqi Shiites to behave themselves ? or it can make things a lot more violent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_poised_explode URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_poised_explode From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 3 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The "Suicide Solution" to America's Debt Crisis Message-ID: <20080803191704.4859.qmail@resist.ca> By Barbara Ehrenreich - July, 31 2008 Suicide is becoming an increasingly popular response to debt...Death is an effective remedy for debt, along with anything else that may be bothering you...And try to think of it too from a lofty, corner-office, perspective: If you can't pay your debts or afford to play your role as a consumer, and if, in addition -- like an ever-rising number of Americans -- you're no longer needed at the workplace, then there's no further point to your existence...The **alternative** is to value yourself more than any amount of money and turn the guns...in the other direction. It wasn't God, or some abstract economic climate change, that caused the credit crisis. Actual humans...did that... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_suicide_solution_americas_debt_crisis URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_suicide_solution_americas_debt_crisis From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 3 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Haaretz Editor Refuses to Retract Israel Apartheid Statements Message-ID: <20080803191705.4861.qmail@resist.ca> by Ezra Halevi - 03 August 08 _Haaretz_ editor and board member **Danny Rubinstein** does not retract his categorization of Israel as an ?apartheid state? before the UN. He claims many at Haaretz agree...Rubinstein had addressed the UN?s Palestinian Rights Conference in Brussels on his way to a World Zionist Organization-sponsored speaking tour in Britain last week. His speaking engagement before the local Zionist Federation was cancelled due to the outcry over his statements, but a local Conservative synagogue hosted the lecture... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/haaretz_editor_refuses_retract_israel_apartheid_statements URL: http://mostlywater.org/haaretz_editor_refuses_retract_israel_apartheid_statements From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 3 19:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: Encouraging Steps Forward for Union Movement Message-ID: <20080804021704.24743.qmail@resist.ca> By Federico Fuentes - July 21, 2008 "As a product of four weeks of meetings between the different currents in the National Union of Workers (UNT), together with important union federations, we have democratically decided, in consultation with the grassroots, that [on September 19-21] we will hold a national congress..."By no later than February next year, we will go towards a transparent, democratic process of internal elections"...These announcements mark an important step forward in forging working class unity and come at a time of an upturn in struggle as well as further steps towards union democratisation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_encouraging_steps_forward_union_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_encouraging_steps_forward_union_movement From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 4 10:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] What is the Free Market? Message-ID: <20080804171706.12932.qmail@resist.ca> [Translated lecture by Peter Decker from Contradictio: Ruthless Criticism] 1. Free-market economy - a false name for the thing [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/what_free_market_translated_lecture_peter_decker_contradictio URL: http://mostlywater.org/what_free_market_translated_lecture_peter_decker_contradictio From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 4 10:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Gaza Under Siege Message-ID: <20080804171706.12933.qmail@resist.ca> One of the world's greatest crimes continues. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/gaza_under_siege URL: http://mostlywater.org/gaza_under_siege From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 4 13:17:49 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:17:49 -0000 Subject: [news] Obama Joins the Club Message-ID: <20080804201750.19117.qmail@resist.ca> By Ramzy Baroud - August 04, 2008 [Barack] Obama insists on disregarding the US official blind spot that has continued to destabilise the Middle East for generations. If he is indeed interested in straightening the distorted course of his country's foreign policy in this region, then he is certainly viewing it from an Israeli looking glass, the same as that used by the Bush neoconservative clique that led America into an unrivalled downfall in Mesopotamia. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/obama_joins_club URL: http://mostlywater.org/obama_joins_club From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 4 19:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Neocon Flap Highlights Jewish Divide Message-ID: <20080805021705.20853.qmail@resist.ca> by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe - July 30, 2008 A mushrooming media controversy pitting neoconservatives against a prominent Jewish-American political commentator could mark a new stage in the growing battle over who speaks for the U.S. Jewish community on foreign policy issues, particularly regarding the Middle East...TIME columnist **Joe Klein's** accusations that Jewish neoconservatives, who played a particularly visible role in the drive to war in Iraq and have since pushed for military confrontation in Iran, sacrificed "U.S. lives and money...to make the world safe for Israel" have spurred angry charges of anti-Semitism and personal attacks from [neoconservative] critics... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/neocon_flap_highlights_jewish_divide URL: http://mostlywater.org/neocon_flap_highlights_jewish_divide From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 4 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why We're Protesting at the Democratic Convention (And Why You Should Join Us) Message-ID: <20080805061703.32717.qmail@resist.ca> By CHRISTIAN WRIGHT - August 4, 2008 I remember in 1999 after the Columbine shootings when the whole country was up in arms about the need to get counseling to the weird kids before they get so frustrated they try to resolve their problems with violence...Today military recruiters are more often seen than college recruiters by a lot of kids...I can't think of a more fitting irony...of just how upside down our country has become...It's time to take it back. People's lives are more important than any election, or any politician?s career. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_were_protesting_democratic_convention_and_why_you_should_join_us URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_were_protesting_democratic_convention_and_why_you_should_join_us From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 5 15:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] RCMP Spied on Early Women's Movement Message-ID: <20080805221704.12761.qmail@resist.ca> Monday, August 4, 2008 - Canadian Press RCMP spies infiltrated Canada's women's movement in the early 1970s, monitoring meetings and rallies to keep an eye on feminists, including the popular Maritime singer-songwriter Rita MacNeil, new research into declassified documents shows...It has long been known that the now-defunct [RCMP Security Service] spied on a vast array of groups ? from trade unionists to student associations ? during the Cold War with the aim of gauging the potential threat from left-wing subversives...The force opened the file "Women's Liberation Groups ? Canada" on May 13, 1969. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rcmp_spied_early_womens_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/rcmp_spied_early_womens_movement From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 5 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] An Israeli Jew in Gaza Message-ID: <20080806061704.19562.qmail@resist.ca> By JEFF HALPER - August 5, 2008 In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprisoned in their own homes, exposed to extreme military violence...Like other elements of the Occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Israel has also besieged cities, towns, villages and whole regions, the siege on Gaza is fundamentally political. It is intended to isolate the democratically-elected government of Palestine and break its power to resist Israeli attempts to impose an apartheid regime over the entire country. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_israeli_jew_gaza URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_israeli_jew_gaza From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 5 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Iraq Better With Three Wars Going On? Message-ID: <20080806061704.19560.qmail@resist.ca> By PATRICK COCKBURN - Counterpunch When the US and Britain invaded Iraq, they started three wars. The first is the insurgency in the Sunni community against the American occupation; the second the struggle by the Iraqi Shia, sixty per cent of the population, allied to the Kurds, to take control of the Iraqi state, previously controlled by the Sunni; and the third a proxy war between the US and Iran about which of them is to have predominant influence in Iraq. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_iraq_better_with_three_wars_going_on URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_iraq_better_with_three_wars_going_on From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 5 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Living in Hell for Life: The Slow Death of Life Without Parole Message-ID: <20080806061704.19563.qmail@resist.ca> By MARLENE MARTIN - August 2/3, 2008 ...[T]he U.S. stands even further apart from the rest of the world in one nightmarish aspect of its prison system--the men and women sentenced to spend the rest of their lives behind bars...There are over 132,000 people serving life sentences in the U.S. One in 10 are forbidden from ever receiving parole, but overall, only one in four of the larger group will ever come before a parole board. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/living_hell_life_the_slow_death_life_without_parole URL: http://mostlywater.org/living_hell_life_the_slow_death_life_without_parole From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 6 15:17:49 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:17:49 -0000 Subject: [news] Racism and Genocide: Lies of Our Times Message-ID: <20080806221750.13411.qmail@resist.ca> by Professor James Petras - 06.08.08 One of the hallmarks of totalitarian ideologues is the use of the big lie: a virulent attack on a defenseless group and then a categorical denial turning victims into executioners and executioners into victims...Zionist genocide promoter, **Benny Morris** practices the Big Lie. He claims, "I have never supported the brutal expulsion of all Palestinians["]...In a recent interview in Israel, Morris states, ?Under some circumstances, expulsion is not a war crime. I don?t think that the expulsions of 1948 (of nearly a million Palestinians) were war crimes. You can?t make an omelet without breaking eggs. You have to dirty your hands.["] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/racism_and_genocide_lies_our_times URL: http://mostlywater.org/racism_and_genocide_lies_our_times From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 6 17:17:49 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:17:49 -0000 Subject: [news] When the Bucks Stop Message-ID: <20080807001749.7316.qmail@resist.ca> August 04, 2008 - Znet The current financial crisis highlights fundamental failings in a global economy run for private profit rather than broader social opportunity. **Jim Stanford** explains how risky financial speculation created a bubble that has now burst, and argues that we need to refocus attention on a real economy founded on the production of actual goods and services. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/when_bucks_stop URL: http://mostlywater.org/when_bucks_stop From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 6 20:17:38 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:17:38 -0000 Subject: [news] More of the Same, Packaged as Change: Barack Obama and Afghanistan Message-ID: <20080807031738.14948.qmail@resist.ca> By MARC HEROLD - August 6, 2008 When asked in Berlin...whether he believed the United States needed to apologize for anything over the past 7 ? years in terms of foreign policy, candidate Obama responded, ?No, I don?t believe in the U.S. apologizing. As I said I think the war in Iraq was a mistake["]...So what does...Barack Obama, propose regarding Afghanistan?...Obama promises nothing other than what already is: more prolonged low-intensity conflict with endless death and destruction. If the U.S. military escalation of the past two years is any indication, a further escalation as he proposes will simply lead to more dead Afghan civilians... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/more_same_packaged_change_barack_obama_and_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/more_same_packaged_change_barack_obama_and_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 7 19:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] War with Iran: On, Off or Undecided? Message-ID: <20080808021705.3653.qmail@resist.ca> Conflicting crosscurrents point in both directions. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/war_with_iran_on_off_or_undecided URL: http://mostlywater.org/war_with_iran_on_off_or_undecided From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 7 19:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] August 8: Day of Action Against the Olympics Message-ID: <20080808021705.3654.qmail@resist.ca> August 8th is the beginning day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We propose that it be a day of simultaneous action and rebellion wherever this message reaches. Instead of passively spectating the Olympics, let's play our own game: the game of attacking international power structures. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/august_8_day_action_against_olympics URL: http://mostlywater.org/august_8_day_action_against_olympics From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 7 21:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Do You Feel Safe Now? Message-ID: <20080808041703.11730.qmail@resist.ca> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Counterpunch If we are honest about who is actually murdering and abusing people, it is the US, Israel, and the UK. There?s your ?axis of evil.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/do_you_feel_safe_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/do_you_feel_safe_now From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 8 14:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. and Afghan Government Frustrated by Taliban's Resilience Message-ID: <20080808211705.16689.qmail@resist.ca> By Carlotta Gall - Monday, August 4, 2008 The Taliban are demonstrating a resilience and ferocity that are sowing alarm [in Kabul], in Washington and in other NATO capitals, and engendering a fresh round of soul-searching over how a relatively ragtag insurgency has managed to keep the world's most powerful armies at bay...Afghan and NATO officials say the Taliban today operate much as the mujahedeen did in the 1980s, when they used Pakistan as a rear base to drive off the Soviet Army... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_and_afghan_government_frustrated_talibans_resilience URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_and_afghan_government_frustrated_talibans_resilience From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 8 18:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0 Message-ID: <20080809011704.31836.qmail@resist.ca> By Naomi Klein - August, 08 2008 The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarian communism ? central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance ? harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_olympics_unveiling_police_state_20 URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_olympics_unveiling_police_state_20 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 8 19:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] An Open Letter to Canada and All First Nation Leaders... Message-ID: <20080809021704.25135.qmail@resist.ca> By Shelley Brant - Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory I hang my head in shame at both this country and the First Nations leaders it has produced who would rather be silent than stand together with their own people who are systematically being killed by the police in this country...Canada you can take your apology and stick it where the sun don't shine because they are just mere words that mean nothing and perhaps in another 100 years[,] rather than do something about the deaths of First Nations people at the hands of police now, you can apologize again... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_open_letter_canada_and_all_first_nation_leaders URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_open_letter_canada_and_all_first_nation_leaders From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 8 20:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Massive U.S. Naval Armada Moves into Position in Middle East Message-ID: <20080809031704.2329.qmail@resist.ca> Important and major geopolitical moves indicate big things brewing in a developing Middle East war. Russia has moved forces into South Ossetia and a huge US naval armada is now heading for Iran as the world watches the Olympic Games. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/massive_us_naval_armada_moves_position_geopolitical_crisis URL: http://mostlywater.org/massive_us_naval_armada_moves_position_geopolitical_crisis From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 8 21:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Russian Envoy Says NATO Encouraged Georgia to Attack South Ossetia Message-ID: <20080809041705.28056.qmail@resist.ca> by Russia Today - August 8, 2008 Russia?s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has sent an official note to representatives of all member countries [of NATO] in connection with Georgia?s military actions against South Ossetia. He?s calling on them not to support [Georgian President] Mikhail Saakashvili..."Russia has already begun consultations with the ambassadors of the NATO countries and consultations with NATO military representatives will be held tomorrow," Rogozin said. "We will caution them against continuing to further support of Saakashvili." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/russian_envoy_says_nato_encouraged_georgia_attack_south_ossetia URL: http://mostlywater.org/russian_envoy_says_nato_encouraged_georgia_attack_south_ossetia From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 9 00:17:14 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] The Lies of Hiroshima are the Lies of Today Message-ID: <20080809071714.10341.qmail@resist.ca> By John Pilger - August 07, 2008 Since 1945, the United States is believed to have been on the brink of using nuclear weapons at least three times. In waging their bogus "war on terror", the present governments in Washington and London have declared they are prepared to make "pre-emptive" nuclear strikes against non-nuclear states. With each stroke toward the midnight of a nuclear Armageddon, the lies of justification grow more outrageous. Iran is the current "threat". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_lies_hiroshima_are_lies_today URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_lies_hiroshima_are_lies_today From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 9 11:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia: Racked by Political Divisions on the Eve of Recall Vote Message-ID: <20080809181706.11245.qmail@resist.ca> By Medea Benjamin - Znet On one side of this struggle is the impoverished indigenous majority in the western highlands who, along with Bolivia's first indigenous president Evo Morales, are trying to redistribute power and wealth towards poor communities. Pitted against them is a mostly white elite based in the eastern part of the country who want to keep tight control over the nation's wealth and are using their money and control of the media to foment widespread discontent...[T]he U.S. government...is aiding and abetting the opposition. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bolivia_racked_political_divisions_eve_recall_vote URL: http://mostlywater.org/bolivia_racked_political_divisions_eve_recall_vote From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 9 15:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] From Mexico City to Beijing: The Cutthroat Games Message-ID: <20080809221704.31007.qmail@resist.ca> By JOHN ROSS - August 9/10, 2008 The Chinese big producton Beijing Olympics is a coming-out party for cutthroat capitalism, a feather in the cap of what used to be called "the developing world" of which the Chinese Peoples' Republic considers itself a charter member...But the Beijing games are not the first Olympics to be staged in the developing world. In 1968, a fast-modernizing Mexico was awarded the 13th Olympic Games. For then-president **Gustavo Diaz Ordaz**, whose anti-communist mindset bordered on the pathological, the Games would carve his name in history. They did but not the way Diaz Ordaz anticipated. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/from_mexico_city_beijing_the_cutthroat_games URL: http://mostlywater.org/from_mexico_city_beijing_the_cutthroat_games From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 9 21:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: Not a Good War Message-ID: <20080810041705.29397.qmail@resist.ca> By Conn Hallinan - Znet Afghanistan is the 'good war,' aimed at 'those who attacked us,'...It is 'the war of necessity,' asserts the _New York Times_, to roll back the 'power of Al Qaeda and the Taliban'...In fact, the Taliban appears to be evolving from a creation of the U.S., Saudi Arabian, and Pakistani intelligence agencies during Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, to a polyglot collection of dedicated Islamists to nationalists...'We're fighting to free our country. We are not a threat to the world' [said Taliban Leader Mullah Omar]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_not_a_good_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_not_a_good_war From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 10 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Olympic Games in China Rewarding Genocide - Free Burma! Message-ID: <20080810201705.24746.qmail@resist.ca> Are the Olympics financing murder and rape? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/olympic_games_rewarding_genocide_8808_free_burma URL: http://mostlywater.org/olympic_games_rewarding_genocide_8808_free_burma From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 10 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Scientific Technique and Human Reproduction: The Scientific Outlook Part 6 Message-ID: <20080810201705.24745.qmail@resist.ca> "...it is, I think, fairly clear that in future a human body, from the moment of conception, will not be regarded merely as something which must be left to grow in accordance with natural forces, with no human interference beyond what is required for the preservation of health. The tendency of scientific technique is to cause everything to be regarded as not just a brute datum, but raw material for the carrying out of some human purpose." - Bertrand Russell, 1931 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/scientific_technique_and_human_reproduction_the_scientific_outlook_part_6 URL: http://mostlywater.org/scientific_technique_and_human_reproduction_the_scientific_outlook_part_6 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 11 10:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Targeting Immigrants - The Largest Ever ICE Raid Message-ID: <20080811171706.19779.qmail@resist.ca> Police state tactics in America growing in intensity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/targeting_immigrants_the_largest_ever_ice_raid URL: http://mostlywater.org/targeting_immigrants_the_largest_ever_ice_raid From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 11 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Morales to Push Bolivian Reforms After Winning Vote Message-ID: <20080811181704.16453.qmail@resist.ca> LA PAZ? - Bolivian President Evo Morales was Monday preparing a redoubled nationalization push and other socialist reforms after winning huge support in a weekend referendum. But his victory in Sunday?s vote, with more than 60 percent of voters backing his mandate according to unofficial results, was tempered by strong gains also handed to political enemies, leaving the country sharply divided. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/morales_push_bolivian_reforms_after_winning_vote URL: http://mostlywater.org/morales_push_bolivian_reforms_after_winning_vote From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 11 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan Transforms Canada Message-ID: <20080811181704.16452.qmail@resist.ca> By Murray Dobbin To play junior partner to empire, we've militarized our identity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_transforms_canada_views URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_transforms_canada_views From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 11 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] California: Marijuana Law Goes Up In Smoke As Federal Agents Raid Dispensaries Message-ID: <20080811201705.29317.qmail@resist.ca> by Dan Glaister | The Guardian UK Facing five charges of distributing illegal drugs, [Charles Lynch, the proprietor of Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers] was found guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom of selling 100kg (220lb) of marijuana. He faces between five and 85 years in prison; his lawyers intend to appeal. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/california_marijuana_law_goes_up_in_smoke_as_federal_agents_raid_dispensaries URL: http://mostlywater.org/california_marijuana_law_goes_up_in_smoke_as_federal_agents_raid_dispensaries From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 11 14:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Riots in Montreal Sparked by Police Killing of Latino Youth Message-ID: <20080811211706.11639.qmail@resist.ca> ![Cars and garbage bags were set ablaze on several streets during the rioting. ][1]_Cars and garbage bags were set ablaze on several streets during the rioting. _ _(CBC)_ CBC News Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme is calling for an end to street violence that erupted in a northern neighbourhood Sunday night, where rioters attacked authorities, torched cars and looted stores in retaliation for a weekend police standoff that killed a teenager. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/08/11/mtl-5-riot.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/riots_montreal_sparked_police_killing_latino_youth URL: http://mostlywater.org/riots_montreal_sparked_police_killing_latino_youth From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 12 11:17:43 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:17:43 -0000 Subject: [news] Bangladesh: Garment Workers Wildcat and Riot After Workers Beaten Message-ID: <20080812181744.18707.qmail@resist.ca> [![Bangladesh Garment Workers Riot][1]][2]**Bangladesh Garment Workers Riot**Thousands of workers from **neighbouring factories** rioted in solidarity at a garment factory where hundreds of (mainly) women had been fired without pay and two were beaten by private security. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/tejgaon.thumbnail.jpg (Bangladesh Garment Workers Riot) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/bangladesh_garment_workers_attack_factories_thousands_wildcat_and_riot URL: http://mostlywater.org/bangladesh_garment_workers_attack_factories_thousands_wildcat_and_riot From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 12 11:17:43 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:17:43 -0000 Subject: [news] Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Blacks Out Most of Twentieth Century Message-ID: <20080812181744.18708.qmail@resist.ca> By John Chan Last Friday?s opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was a $US100 million public relations exercise by the Chinese Communist Party to refashion its image as a pro-business regime that has long repudiated its claims to a ?socialist? or ?revolutionary? tradition. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/beijing_olympic_games_opening_ceremony_blacks_out_most_twentieth_century URL: http://mostlywater.org/beijing_olympic_games_opening_ceremony_blacks_out_most_twentieth_century From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 12 11:17:43 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:17:43 -0000 Subject: [news] Monsanto Leaves Bovine Hormone Business Message-ID: <20080812181744.18710.qmail@resist.ca> by Noel K. Gallagher | Portland Press Herald PORTLAND, Maine - Oakhurst Dairy owner Stanley Bennett welcomed the news that Monsanto was divesting itself of its controversial dairy hormone business, after taking on the agribusiness giant in an expensive David-and-Goliath legal battle five years ago. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/maine_dairy_%C2%91somewhat_vindicated%C2%92_as_monsanto_leaves_bovine_hormone_business URL: http://mostlywater.org/maine_dairy_%C2%91somewhat_vindicated%C2%92_as_monsanto_leaves_bovine_hormone_business From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 13 00:17:41 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:17:41 -0000 Subject: [news] Georgia: Where the Cold War Never Ended Message-ID: <20080813071741.4835.qmail@resist.ca> by Zolt?n Dujisin - August 11, 2008 As war breaks out in Georgia, the geopolitical struggle between the U.S. and Russia becomes more violent and closer to Russia's border than ever...Many elites in the post-communist countries tend to believe that Russia is inherently inclined towards authoritarianism and expansionism and that the Soviet Union was just another expression of this impulse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/georgia_where_cold_war_never_ended URL: http://mostlywater.org/georgia_where_cold_war_never_ended From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 13 10:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Using Georgia to Target Russia Message-ID: <20080813171710.5923.qmail@resist.ca> Welcome to the new Cold War and new Great Game. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/using_georgia_target_russia URL: http://mostlywater.org/using_georgia_target_russia From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 13 10:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Interview: International Union of Sex Workers Message-ID: <20080813171710.5924.qmail@resist.ca> Ian Sinclair at the Morning Star...did an interesting interview with "Catherine, a prostitute, dominatrix and activist with the International Union of Sex Workers..." "...[W]e didn't go out and rescue the miners, take them away and give them a wash, and say ?come and do this you will be much happier'. We gave them rights, we gave them bargaining power." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/international_union_sex_workers URL: http://mostlywater.org/international_union_sex_workers From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 13 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Most Companies In US Don't Pay Federal Income Taxes Message-ID: <20080813181704.2731.qmail@resist.ca> WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. Combined, the companies had $2.5 trillion in sales. About 25 percent of the U.S. corporations not paying corporate taxes were considered large corporations, meaning they had at least $250 million in assets or $50 million in receipts. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/most_companies_in_us_avoid_federal_income_taxes URL: http://mostlywater.org/most_companies_in_us_avoid_federal_income_taxes From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 13 19:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] The Importance of Being disEarnest Message-ID: <20080814021705.26811.qmail@resist.ca> ?Iran?s president is a holocaust denier and refers to Israel by what can only be described as the most hateful of terms.?-Bob Rae [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_importance_being_disearnest_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_importance_being_disearnest_0 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 14 11:17:12 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Civil Liberties: Outrage at New York Police Plan to Track Vehicles Message-ID: <20080814181713.6610.qmail@resist.ca> The Guardian NEW YORK - The Big Apple is turning into Big Brother, civil liberties groups have warned in response to a new plan from New York city?s police chiefs to photograph every vehicle entering Manhattan and hold the details on a massive database. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/civil_liberties_outrage_new_york_police_plan_track_vehicles URL: http://mostlywater.org/civil_liberties_outrage_new_york_police_plan_track_vehicles From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 14 11:17:12 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Shell Rebuked For =?utf-8?b?4oCYR3JlZW53YXNo4oCZ?= Over Ad For Polluting Oil Project Message-ID: <20080814181713.6614.qmail@resist.ca> The Independent The Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell misled the public about the green credentials of a vastly polluting oil project in Canada, in an attempt to assure consumers of its good environmental record, a media watchdog will rule today. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/shell_rebuked_for_%E2%80%98greenwash%E2%80%99_over_ad_for_polluting_oil_project URL: http://mostlywater.org/shell_rebuked_for_%E2%80%98greenwash%E2%80%99_over_ad_for_polluting_oil_project From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 14 19:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Justice for Freddy Villanueva, the 43rd Montreal Police Killing in 22 Years Message-ID: <20080815021703.18658.qmail@resist.ca> *Communiqu? by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP)-Montreal* The death of **Freddy [Villaneuva]** is part of a long history of repression, abuse and brutality by the Montreal police. What happened is unjustifiable. The police know that they committed an enormous error. They are trying to hide the facts... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/justice_freddy_villanueva_43rd_montreal_police_killing_22_years URL: http://mostlywater.org/justice_freddy_villanueva_43rd_montreal_police_killing_22_years From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 15 23:17:23 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Summer of Terror: At least 100, 000 Said Executed by Korean Ally of US in 1950 Message-ID: <20080816061723.18828.qmail@resist.ca> By Charles J. Hanley and Jae-Soon Chang - August 08, 2008 This is the **first** of a multi-part article on the South Korean massacres of 1950, the US direct and indirect involvement in those massacres, and the subsequent cover up of the events in South Korea and the United States...Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/summer_terror_at_least_100000_said_executed_korean_ally_us_1950 URL: http://mostlywater.org/summer_terror_at_least_100000_said_executed_korean_ally_us_1950 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 16 00:17:24 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Corporate Media Bashes New Chavez Enabling Law Decrees Message-ID: <20080816071724.27121.qmail@resist.ca> Once again the corporate media misreports on Venezuela and its democratic President. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/corporate_media_bashes_new_chavez_enabling_law_decrees URL: http://mostlywater.org/corporate_media_bashes_new_chavez_enabling_law_decrees From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 16 13:17:16 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Two Morons: Bush and Saakashvili Message-ID: <20080816201716.18022.qmail@resist.ca> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - August 13, 2008 The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied American media are heading the innocent world toward nuclear war...[T]he **National Endowment for Democracy** was created as a cold war tool. Today the NED is a neocon-controlled agent for US world hegemony. Its main function is to pour US money and election-rigging into former constituent parts of the Soviet Union in order to ring Russia with American puppet states...The neoconservative Bush Regime used the NED to intervene in Ukrainian and Georgian internal affairs... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/two_morons_bush_and_saakashvili URL: http://mostlywater.org/two_morons_bush_and_saakashvili From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 16 22:17:41 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:17:41 -0000 Subject: [news] The Deportation of Jeremy Hinzman Message-ID: <20080817051742.20957.qmail@resist.ca> By HOWARD LISNOFF - Counterpunch The news that Jeremy Hinzman was ordered deported from Canada struck like lightning! Hinzman, a 29-year-old war resister who has been living in Canada since 2004 lost his bid to remain in Canada by way of a decision of Canada?s **Border Services Agency**. The agency found that Hinzman did not qualify for compassionate or humanitarian consideration in his bid to remain in Canada...If Hinzman is convicted by court martial, which is likely given the public nature of his case, he faces a five-year prison sentence. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_deportation_jeremy_hinzman URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_deportation_jeremy_hinzman From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 17 18:17:17 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Burma: 15 Year Old Girl Raped, Killed and Mutilated Message-ID: <20080818011717.6407.qmail@resist.ca> An innocent little Kachin girl was rapped and murdered by Burmese government troops. It was a most horrific tale for someone so young to endure. The details of which were beyond imagination. [**Warning: graphic material**] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/15_year_old_girl_raped_killed_mutilated URL: http://mostlywater.org/15_year_old_girl_raped_killed_mutilated From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 17 18:17:17 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Landmark Wal-Mart Ruling Released by Quebec Arbitrator Message-ID: <20080818011717.6412.qmail@resist.ca> CBC News | Agreement 'incompatible' with company's way of doing business: spokesman A Quebec arbitrator has imposed a collective agreement on Wal-Mart for the first time in the world's largest retailer's history. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/landmark_walmart_ruling_released_quebec_arbitrator URL: http://mostlywater.org/landmark_walmart_ruling_released_quebec_arbitrator