From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 1 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Do CEOs Get Paid too Much? Who Gets How Much and Why? Message-ID: <20080601201705.25712.qmail@resist.ca> >From Ruthless Criticism President Bush himself chastises the business leaders assembled on Wall Street for his 2007 State of the Economy speech. He leads the continuing public debate about whether CEOs allegedly make excessive salaries; particularly offensive are the ?golden parachutes,? the compensation packages for dismissed executives. The President urges them to show restraint and suggests that this could be harmful to the whole nation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/do_ceos_get_paid_too_much_who_gets_how_much_and_why_free_market_economy URL: http://mostlywater.org/do_ceos_get_paid_too_much_who_gets_how_much_and_why_free_market_economy From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 2 10:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Protest Against the Domestic and Overseas Course of War. The =?utf-8?b?4oCcT3RoZXJBbWVyaWNh4oCd4oCU?= Worthy of a Superpower Message-ID: <20080602171704.5612.qmail@resist.ca> [translated from GegenStandpunkt: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift 4-03, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich] Whenever Americans criticize their President the only thing they come out with is pro-American nationalism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/protest_against_domestic_and_overseas_course_war_the_%E2%80%9Cother_america%E2%80%9D_%E2%80%94_worthy_a_superpower URL: http://mostlywater.org/protest_against_domestic_and_overseas_course_war_the_%E2%80%9Cother_america%E2%80%9D_%E2%80%94_worthy_a_superpower From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 2 10:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Washington Trying to "Checkmate" Chavez Message-ID: <20080602171704.5613.qmail@resist.ca> Washington targets Chavez for removal. [Heinz Dieterich Steffan] envisions a scenario much like against Cuba that led to the 1962 missile crisis - a naval blockade and sees "no cohesion" in Venezuela's military as there was in Cuba. The antidote is Latin American unity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/washington_trying_checkmate_chavez URL: http://mostlywater.org/washington_trying_checkmate_chavez From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 2 13:17:21 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] FTA Canada-Colombia: Days Before the Ink Dries? Message-ID: <20080602201721.7269.qmail@resist.ca> South American news agencies are reporting that the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Colombia could be signed this week in Bogot?. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/fta_canadacolombia_days_ink_dries URL: http://mostlywater.org/fta_canadacolombia_days_ink_dries From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 2 22:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] 3 McDonalds Attacked in Victoria Message-ID: <20080603051707.9422.qmail@resist.ca> On the afternoon of May 31, 3 McDonalds [restaurants] were attacked in Victoria, BC. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/3_mcdonalds_attacked_victoria URL: http://mostlywater.org/3_mcdonalds_attacked_victoria From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 3 00:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Latin America: The Attack On Democracy Message-ID: <20080603071705.14803.qmail@resist.ca> By John Pilger - April 25 2008 Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/latin_america_the_attack_on_democracy URL: http://mostlywater.org/latin_america_the_attack_on_democracy From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 3 03:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US: Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes! Message-ID: <20080603101706.15606.qmail@resist.ca> CommonDreams.org | by Karl Grossman With Wall Street unwilling to finance new nuclear plants, U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and John Warner of Virginia have cooked up a scheme to provide $544 billion ?? yes, with a ?b? ? in subsidies for new nuclear power plant development. [Note: MW has started syndicating [Common Dreams][1].] [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/news_feed_items_per_feed/46276 [2]: http://mostlywater.org/us_halftrillion_dollars_nukes URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_halftrillion_dollars_nukes From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 3 12:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] US Accused of Holding Terror Suspects on Prison Ships Message-ID: <20080603191708.2583.qmail@resist.ca> The Guardian UK | June 2, 2008 The United States is operating ?floating prisons? to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_accused_holding_terror_suspects_prison_ships URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_accused_holding_terror_suspects_prison_ships From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 3 14:17:13 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] House of Commons Votes to Let U.S. War Resisters Stay in Canada Message-ID: <20080603211713.26652.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA, June 3 /CNW/ - The Opposition parties in the House of Commons joined together today to adopt a recommendation which, if implemented, would make it possible for U.S. Iraq War resisters to obtain Permanent Resident status in Canada. The recommendation was adopted by a majority of Members of Parliament from the Liberal, Bloc Qu?b?cois, and New Democratic Parties. The Conservatives voted against the motion. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/house_commons_votes_let_us_war_resisters_stay_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/house_commons_votes_let_us_war_resisters_stay_canada From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 3 23:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Mayor Wants 'Massive Publicity Campaign' in U.S. to Deter "Illegal" Migrants Message-ID: <20080604061709.19474.qmail@resist.ca> Steven Edwards - Monday, June 02, 2008 Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis said Monday Ottawa needs to begin a massive publicity campaign across the United States to warn illegal immigrants they should think twice about seeing Canada as a soft touch..."It should be made clear that, yes, they may be allowed entry into Canada, and yes, there may be a delay before your case is heard, but once your case is heard, the likelihood of success is very slim," Francis said... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mayor_wants_massive_publicity_campaign_us_deter_illegal_migrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/mayor_wants_massive_publicity_campaign_us_deter_illegal_migrants From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 4 12:17:33 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:17:33 -0000 Subject: [news] Choice in November Message-ID: <20080604191734.31327.qmail@resist.ca> A closer look at Obama - is he any different? [NOTE: While Stephen takes a pro-Nader stance in this article, Mostly Water does not endorse any politicians or political parties. Sure, having Nader as president might be somewhat better than the other candidates, but "if voting could really change anything, it would be illegal."] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/choice_november_nader_v_twiddle_dee_or_twiddle_dum URL: http://mostlywater.org/choice_november_nader_v_twiddle_dee_or_twiddle_dum From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 4 13:17:17 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate Findings Were Distorted, Probe Finds Message-ID: <20080604201717.28045.qmail@resist.ca> An investigation by the NASA inspector general found that political appointees in the space agency?s public affairs office worked to control and distort public accounts of its researchers? findings about climate change for at least two years, the inspector general?s office said yesterday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/climate_findings_were_distorted_probe_finds URL: http://mostlywater.org/climate_findings_were_distorted_probe_finds From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 4 13:17:17 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Initiative To Discriminate Against Gays Gets Place on California Ballot Message-ID: <20080604201717.28046.qmail@resist.ca> Sacramento - A constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California was placed on the Nov. 4 ballot Monday, kick-starting an election struggle that will have repercussions across the nation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/initiative_to_discriminate_against_gays_gets_place_california_ballot URL: http://mostlywater.org/initiative_to_discriminate_against_gays_gets_place_california_ballot From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 5 04:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Victory for Grassy Narrows! AbitibiBowater Retreats Message-ID: <20080605111707.26862.qmail@resist.ca> After more than a decade of direct action, the Asubpeeschoseewagong community at Grassy Narrows can finally rest easy. The industrial logging giant AbitibiBowater announced yesterday that they are retreating from the Whiskey Jack Forest, three-quarters of which is Grassy Narrows? traditional territory. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/victory_grassy_narrows_abitibibowater_retreats URL: http://mostlywater.org/victory_grassy_narrows_abitibibowater_retreats From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 5 10:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] SkyTrain Billions Better Spent on Trams: Study Message-ID: <20080605171706.29392.qmail@resist.ca> The planned SkyTrain subway spur along Broadway and out to the University of British Columbia campus will cost taxpayers 15 times what it would take to build a tram line along the same route. In fact, for the $2.8 billion cost of the single 12 kilometre SkyTrain tube from Commercial Drive to UBC, Vancouver could build 175 km of tram lines crisscrossing the city and beyond. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/skytrain_billions_better_spent_trams_study_news URL: http://mostlywater.org/skytrain_billions_better_spent_trams_study_news From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 5 12:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Study Says Israeli Jews Becoming Increasingly Racist Toward Arabs Message-ID: <20080605191709.6215.qmail@resist.ca> By Avirama Golan - Haaretz Israel's Jewish community increasingly supports the delegitimization, discrimination and even deportation of Arabs, found a report on racism in Israel...The report...states that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has clearly impacted public opinion, and warns that ideas such as population exchange and racial segregation are gaining ground. It also warns that several Jewish politicians are gaining influence based on a platform of racial hatred. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/study_says_israeli_jews_becoming_increasingly_racist_toward_arabs URL: http://mostlywater.org/study_says_israeli_jews_becoming_increasingly_racist_toward_arabs From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 5 13:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada: A History of Hypocrisy Message-ID: <20080605201708.3046.qmail@resist.ca> by Regan Boychuk - Literary Review of Canada Canadian complicity links U.S. Cold War torture with cases like Maher Arar?s...[F]rom the early days of the Cold War, the Canadian government coordinated and funded the CIA?s research into psychological torture. When they exported the resulting techniques to Vietnam and Latin America, we ran interference. And with today?s war on terror, our complicity with U.S. torture has only grown. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_a_history_hypocrisy URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_a_history_hypocrisy From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 5 19:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Princess Patricia and the Taliban Message-ID: <20080606021706.22777.qmail@resist.ca> By ERIC WALBERG - June 4, 2008 The insurgency is spread not by fear alone: a weak central government and the country?s declining socioeconomic situation point to the Taliban as the only feasible force to control the situation. ?The population of Afghanistan is becoming disillusioned with the government,? says Halim Kousary, of the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies in Kabul. ?People in the north believe there hasn?t been enough reconstruction.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/princess_patricia_and_taliban URL: http://mostlywater.org/princess_patricia_and_taliban From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 5 20:17:19 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Countering Palestine Solidarity Work in Canada Message-ID: <20080606031719.1251.qmail@resist.ca> by Zac Smith - April 28, 2008 Following the success of [**Israeli Apartheid Week**], the Zionist movement has moved to openly embrace a strategy of repression against student activists. This strategy of repression is combined with bureaucratic attempts to prevent students from organizing politically, restricting the use of university space, or shutting-down speeches about Palestine. [For **another look** at the tactics used by supporters of Israel against Anti-Apartheid activists, this time in Britain and the U.S., see this article [on the smearing of Israel?s critics.][1]] [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_loathsome_smearing_israels_critics [2]: http://mostlywater.org/countering_palestine_solidarity_work_canada_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/countering_palestine_solidarity_work_canada_0 From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 6 01:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain: Demonstrators Oppose Deportation of Refugee Activist Amdani Juma Message-ID: <20080606081708.13190.qmail@resist.ca> By Robert Stevens - World Socialist Web Site On June 2, some 150 demonstrators protested in the Market Square in Nottingham, England to oppose the imminent deportation of Amdani Juma. Another demonstration was held the previous Saturday in the town...Juma is scheduled to be deported to Burundi on June 4...Amdani fears that his life will be in danger. He is currently being detained at the Lindholme detention centre near Doncaster in South Yorkshire. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_demonstrators_oppose_deportation_refugee_activist_amdani_juma_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_demonstrators_oppose_deportation_refugee_activist_amdani_juma_0 From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 6 12:17:11 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] European Union Nations Agree on New Rules for Expelling "Illegal" Migrants Message-ID: <20080606191711.2588.qmail@resist.ca> Agence France-Presse LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations approved Thursday tough new rules on expelling visa-overstayers which could see them banned for five years if they resist, the EU's Slovenian presidency announced. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/eu_nations_agree_new_rules_expelling_llegal_immigrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/eu_nations_agree_new_rules_expelling_llegal_immigrants From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 6 13:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] "This Law is a Bomb That May Kill Everyone": Cheney Enrages Iraqis Over Security Deal Message-ID: <20080606201706.30595.qmail@resist.ca> By GARY LEUPP - June 6, 2008 [U.S. Vice President] Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a ?security pact? with Washington by the end of July...[Iraqi] public opinion is opposed to the pact based on leaked information about its content; and a majority of members of the Iraqi parliament have endorsed a letter to the U.S. government demanding U.S. withdrawal as the condition for ?any commercial, agricultural, investment or political agreement with the United States?...Few Americans are familiar with the proposed treaty. If they were, they might be shocked at its provisions, ashamed about its naked sadism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/this_law_a_bomb_that_may_kill_everyone_cheney_enrages_iraqis_over_security_deal URL: http://mostlywater.org/this_law_a_bomb_that_may_kill_everyone_cheney_enrages_iraqis_over_security_deal From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 6 21:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Black Victims of the Holocaust Message-ID: <20080607041705.7383.qmail@resist.ca> By A. Tolbert, III Did you know that in the 1920s, there were 24,000 Blacks living in Germany? Here?s how it happened, and how many of them were eventually caught unawares by the events of the Holocaust. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/black_victims_holocaust URL: http://mostlywater.org/black_victims_holocaust From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 7 12:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Attack on Iran "Unavoidable" Says Israeli PM Deputy Message-ID: <20080607191705.13244.qmail@resist.ca> by Dan Williams - June 7, 2008 An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks ?unavoidable? given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s deputies said on Friday...["]If Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz [said]... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israel_attack_iran_unavoidable_says_israeli_pm_deputy URL: http://mostlywater.org/israel_attack_iran_unavoidable_says_israeli_pm_deputy From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 7 13:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Smash EDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade Message-ID: <20080607201707.8333.qmail@resist.ca> SchNEWS, Britain's Direct Action Newsletter - Friday, June 6, 2008 With red flags flying, three soundsystems, a cardboard tank and the inevitable samba band around 500 people were met by a surprisingly small number of police on the Level in Brighton. At around 1pm having confirmed the factory was open the march moved off towards EDO MBM, around a mile and a half away, chanting ?Smash, Smash EDO?..."We came here to fight the arms trade ? we?re not gonna be pushed into a playpen." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_smash_edo_carnival_against_arms_trade URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_smash_edo_carnival_against_arms_trade From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 7 14:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran and Rumors of War Message-ID: <20080607211706.19422.qmail@resist.ca> By CONN HALLINAN - June 7/8, 2008 ...[O]ver the past several months, a number of moves by the White House strongly suggest that the Bush Administration will attack Iran sometime in the near future...There is a certain disconnect to all this, particularly given last December?s **National Intelligence Estimate** (NIE) concluding that Iran had abandoned its program to build a nuclear weapon. The NIE is the consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence services...However, shortly after the intelligence estimate on Iran was released, the old ?into Iraq gang? went to work undermining it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iran_and_rumors_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/iran_and_rumors_war From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 8 01:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Zapatista Alert: 200 Soldiers Invade Zapatista Lands, Resisted and Ejected by the People Message-ID: <20080608081707.4083.qmail@resist.ca> "Comrades of the _Other Campaign_ in Mexico and other countries, we ask you to be on the alert because the soldiers said they?ll be back in two weeks. We don?t want war. We want peace with justice and dignity. But we have no other choice than to defend ourselves, resist them, and eject them when they come looking for a confrontation with us in the towns of the Zapatista support bases...All we can tell you is to look and see where the provocation is coming from. We?re now informing you of what?s going on, hopefully in time." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zapatista_alert_200_soldiers_invade_zapatista_lands_resisted_ejected_people URL: http://mostlywater.org/zapatista_alert_200_soldiers_invade_zapatista_lands_resisted_ejected_people From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 8 10:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Darfur=E2=80=99s?= Child Refugees Being Sold to Militias Message-ID: <20080608171704.17776.qmail@resist.ca> the Guardian/UK DARFUR - Thousands of child refugees from Darfur, some as young as nine, are being abducted and sold to warring militias as child soldiers, a British human rights group reports today. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/darfur%E2%80%99s_child_refugees_being_sold_militias URL: http://mostlywater.org/darfur%E2%80%99s_child_refugees_being_sold_militias From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 8 10:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Taser Company Held Responsible in Salinas Death Message-ID: <20080608171704.17777.qmail@resist.ca> A federal jury has held Taser International responsible for the death of a Salinas man in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Friday, and awarded his family more than $6 million in punitive and compensatory damages. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/taser_held_responsible_salinas_death URL: http://mostlywater.org/taser_held_responsible_salinas_death From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 8 13:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi PM Assures Iran on Security Message-ID: <20080608201707.21255.qmail@resist.ca> BBC News - 2008/06/08 Iraq will not allow its territory to be used to attack Iran, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has said during a visit to Tehran..."We will not allow Iraq to become a platform for harming the security of Iran and neighbours," Iranian state-run media quoted Mr Maliki as saying after late-night talks with [Iran's] Foreign Minister... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_pm_assures_iran_security URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_pm_assures_iran_security From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 8 15:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] War Abroad, Poverty at Home Message-ID: <20080608221705.26609.qmail@resist.ca> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - May 23, 2008 The ?world?s only superpower? is so broke it can?t even finance its own wars...The rising price of energy drives up the price of producing and transporting all goods, but American incomes are not rising except for the extremely rich...America?s political leaders either have no awareness that Bush?s wars are destroying our country?s economic position and permanently lowering the living standards of Americans or they do not care. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/war_abroad_poverty_home URL: http://mostlywater.org/war_abroad_poverty_home From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 8 17:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Revamps His Intelligence Services to Counter U.S. Subversion: The Corporate Media React Message-ID: <20080609001705.1506.qmail@resist.ca> By Stephen Lendman - June, 07 2008 Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez. Given past ones, they can't be taken lightly. Chavez is alerted and reacts accordingly. Case in point: revamping Venezuela's decades old intelligence services. It's long overdue and urgently needed given the Bush administration's tenure winding down and its determination in its remaining months to end the Bolivarian project and crush its participatory democracy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_revamps_his_intelligence_services_counter_us_subversion_the_corporate_media_react URL: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_revamps_his_intelligence_services_counter_us_subversion_the_corporate_media_react From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 9 03:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Corporate Rights Trump Indigenous Rights in Ontario Message-ID: <20080609101706.28582.qmail@resist.ca> In attempts to skirt constitutionally required consultations with First Nations, mining corporations are seeking access to territory by dragging the process through the Ontario legal system long enough to bankrupt cash-strapped First Nations. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/corporate_rights_trump_indigenous_rights_ontario URL: http://mostlywater.org/corporate_rights_trump_indigenous_rights_ontario From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 9 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Revising, Not Revoking Venezuela's New Intelligence Law Message-ID: <20080609181704.29438.qmail@resist.ca> Updating my [earlier article][1] on this topic. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_revamps_his_intelligence_services_counter_us_subversion_the_corporate_media_react [2]: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_revising_not_revoking_venezuelas_new_intelligence_law URL: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_revising_not_revoking_venezuelas_new_intelligence_law From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 9 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Potential Future Hyperinflation Message-ID: <20080609181704.29439.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman Potential future trouble ahead for US economy few take seriously. [In] Walter "John" Williams'...judgment, government data are manipulated, corrupted and unreliable. He's not alone thinking that. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/potential_future_hyperinflation URL: http://mostlywater.org/potential_future_hyperinflation From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 9 12:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Guant=C3=A1namo?= Bay: Interrogators Told to Destroy Torture Notes, US Lawyer Claims Message-ID: <20080609191707.12530.qmail@resist.ca> The Guardian/UK | by Peter Walker Interrogators at Guant?namo Bay were told to destroy their notes to stop them potentially being used to highlight the mistreatment of detainees, according to a US military lawyer. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guant%C3%A1namo_bay_interrogators_told_destroy_torture_notes_us_lawyer_claims URL: http://mostlywater.org/guant%C3%A1namo_bay_interrogators_told_destroy_torture_notes_us_lawyer_claims From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 10 09:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "A Midwestern Cluster" Forms and Adopts SECTOR 5! Message-ID: <20080610161704.6274.qmail@resist.ca> On May 30th-June 1st, Anti-Authoritarians from all walks of Midwestern life converged in MPLS, MN to indulge in ?Red Dawn?, take part in essential party crashing workshops, and strategize against the 2008 D/RNC. During Saturday?s strategizing session, ?A Midwestern Cluster? was formed. On July 12th, Unconventional Midwest will be hosting a spokes council in MPLS, MN. A Midwestern cluster is calling on Midwestern anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups/smaller clusters to send representatives to 7.12 to cluster up and begin strategizing within SECTOR 5 against the RNC. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_midwestern_cluster_forms_and_adopts_sector_5 URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_midwestern_cluster_forms_and_adopts_sector_5 From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 10 09:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Innu People Threatened with Evictions Message-ID: <20080610161704.6275.qmail@resist.ca> ST. JOHNS, Quebec ? More than 100 Innu families who are now occupying and using their aboriginal homeland in Newfoundland Labrador recently received eviction notices from the provincial government of Newfoundland Labrador. The Removal Notices direct Innu families to "remove all structures from Crown land and restore the site to its original conditions within 60 days of notice." Failure to do so will result in the Crown Lands Division demolishing their homes and charging the costs of demolition to the Innu families. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/innu_people_threatened_with_evictions URL: http://mostlywater.org/innu_people_threatened_with_evictions From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 10 17:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Member of Congress Calls For Bush Impeachment on Floor of House of Representatives Message-ID: <20080611001704.30198.qmail@resist.ca> The Belfast Telegraph/Ireland Former Democratic presidential contender, Dennis Kucinich, has called for the impeachment of George W Bush claiming that the president set out to deceive the nation, and violated his oath of office with the Iraq war. The Ohio representative yesterday introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Bush on the floor of the US House of Representatives. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/kucinich_calls_for_bush_impeachment URL: http://mostlywater.org/kucinich_calls_for_bush_impeachment From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 11 08:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Opposition Grows to New Drug Bill, C-51 Message-ID: <20080611151706.31313.qmail@resist.ca> June 2008 Features On April 8, 2008, the Harper government introduced Bill C-51 as an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act. If passed into law, Canadians will no longer have the freedom to choose between pharmaceutical drugs and natural health products. The two categories we now have, namely drugs and natural health products, would be merged into one category called ?therapeutic products?. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/opposition_grows_bill_c51 URL: http://mostlywater.org/opposition_grows_bill_c51 From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 11 08:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Exposing Bush Administration Corruption Message-ID: <20080611151706.31312.qmail@resist.ca> The corruption amounts are beyond belief. An ex-CIA higher-up tells her story. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/exposing_bush_administration_corruption URL: http://mostlywater.org/exposing_bush_administration_corruption From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 11 08:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Domestic Workers to Get Union Help Message-ID: <20080611151707.31315.qmail@resist.ca> Nicholas Keung | The Star An international union has launched an advocacy group to support the tens of thousands of live-in caregivers in Canada ? and ensure their rights are respected at the hands of abusive employers and recruiters. For $10 a month they'll get a dental plan, legal counselling, insurance and other benefits. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_home_workers_get_union_help URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_home_workers_get_union_help From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 11 09:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Oaxacan Teachers Reach Agreement with Their Union and Local Government Message-ID: <20080611161707.28395.qmail@resist.ca> [T]he radical Oaxacan section of the Latin American education workers' union Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores en la Educaci?n (SNTE), has finally signed deals with both the SNTE hierarchy and Oaxacan local government. The SNTE executive bowed to the Oaxacan local's demands of new union elections within the state this coming September, a core demand of the strike in the context of the national union leadership's breaking of the 2006 strike in Oaxaca in the midst of a statewide revolt. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/oaxacan_teachers_reach_agreement_with_their_union_and_local_government URL: http://mostlywater.org/oaxacan_teachers_reach_agreement_with_their_union_and_local_government From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 12 03:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] East Jerusalem Arabs Detail Violence they Face by City's Jews Message-ID: <20080612101704.16398.qmail@resist.ca> By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10 - May 28, 2008 Last month's attack by a Jewish mob on Arab youths got ample press, but shouldn't be considered an isolated incident. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/video_east_jerusalem_arabs_detail_violence_they_face_citys_jews URL: http://mostlywater.org/video_east_jerusalem_arabs_detail_violence_they_face_citys_jews From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 12 09:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada-Colombia: Disaster in the Making Message-ID: <20080612161704.27234.qmail@resist.ca> Todd Gordon looks at the new Canada-Colombia free trade deal, including the claim that it will strengthen labour rights in a country renowned for violence against activists. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadacolombia_disaster_making URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadacolombia_disaster_making From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 12 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Canada=E2=80=99s?= Indigenous People Get A Formal Apology Message-ID: <20080612181705.7185.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Wednesday to the nation?s native people for ?a sad chapter in our history,? acknowledging the physical abuses and cultural damage they suffered during a century of forced assimilation at residential schools. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada%E2%80%99s_native_people_get_a_formal_apology URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada%E2%80%99s_native_people_get_a_formal_apology From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 12 21:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Natives Respond to Canadian Government's Apology Message-ID: <20080613041705.23679.qmail@resist.ca> Statement by Quebec Native Women?s Association/Femmes Autochtones du Qu?bec Quebec Native Women recognizes the Prime Minister?s official apology concerning the genocidal experience of Aboriginal people in the history of the Residential School system. While the apology to Aboriginal peoples is long overdue it is contradicted by the oppressive policies of the Indian Act. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/natives_respond_canadian_governments_apology URL: http://mostlywater.org/natives_respond_canadian_governments_apology From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 13 10:17:16 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Natural Health Coalition: Stop Bill C-51 Message-ID: <20080613171716.20360.qmail@resist.ca> The Canadian Natural Health Coalition has launched their Official Policy Statement on their position regarding the state of natural health products and the public's health and safety in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_natural_health_coalition_stop_bill_c51 URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_natural_health_coalition_stop_bill_c51 From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 13 10:17:16 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias Message-ID: <20080613171716.20361.qmail@resist.ca> BBC consistently is pro-Israel and supportive of western and corporate interests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bbcs_proisraeli_bias URL: http://mostlywater.org/bbcs_proisraeli_bias From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 13 21:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Racism in the Tar Sands: Exploiting Foreign Workers and Poisoning Indigenous People Message-ID: <20080614041704.32027.qmail@resist.ca> By Macdonald Stainsby The giant corporations that are determined to exploit the Alberta tar sands face a major problem ? a serious shortage of local labour to do the actual work. So the Canadian and Albertan governments have a plan, ideal in their eyes, to solve the crunch. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/racism_tar_sands_exploiting_foreign_workers_and_poisoning_indigenous_people URL: http://mostlywater.org/racism_tar_sands_exploiting_foreign_workers_and_poisoning_indigenous_people From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 14 21:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Poverty Committee: Reportback from Recent Action Against the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) Message-ID: <20080615041703.25678.qmail@resist.ca> While the APC was creating havoc for the hotel security outside by chanting and handing out propaganda, one APC member...managed to sneak inside past the pigs, and pundits, the suits, and the security guards. [She] grabbed a pitcher of pop and walked...over to the Mayor. Raising her voice she declared, ?Here?s to Civil City!? and promptly poured the pitcher over Sam Sullivan?s head... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/antipoverty_committee_reportback_recent_action_against_nonpartisan_association_npa URL: http://mostlywater.org/antipoverty_committee_reportback_recent_action_against_nonpartisan_association_npa From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 15 15:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan's U.S. Puppet Threatens to Send Troops into Pakistan Message-ID: <20080615221705.3585.qmail@resist.ca> Sunday, June 15, 2008 - CBC News Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday said his country has the right to send troops into Pakistan to fight Taliban insurgents who launch cross-border attacks...Karzai has previously pleaded to international forces to confront militants in Pakistan, but this was the first time he has threatened to send Afghan troops across the border. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistans_us_puppet_threatens_send_troops_pakistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistans_us_puppet_threatens_send_troops_pakistan From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 15 15:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Real Nazis Run Your Schools: Nazi Rockers ... Fuck Off Message-ID: <20080615221705.3588.qmail@resist.ca> "Punk ain't no religious cult, Punk means thinking for yourself You ain't hardcore 'cause you spike your hair, While a jock still lives inside your head" - "Nazi Punks Fuck Off," Dead Kennedys, 1981 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_real_nazis_run_your_schools_nazi_rockers_fuck_off URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_real_nazis_run_your_schools_nazi_rockers_fuck_off From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 15 15:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] America the Detested Message-ID: <20080615221705.3586.qmail@resist.ca> By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY - June 13-15, 2008 On the day that American airstrikes in Pakistan killed 11 Frontier Corps soldiers a committee of the US Congress in Washington released a report indicating that America was hated [a]round the world...[The report] ["]based on expert testimony and polling data reveals US approval ratings have fallen to record lows across the world since 2002, particularly in Muslim countries and Latin America." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/america_detested_the_pakistan_airstrikes URL: http://mostlywater.org/america_detested_the_pakistan_airstrikes From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 15 23:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Legislating Tyranny: The Bush Administration's Assault on Civil Liberties Message-ID: <20080616061709.13963.qmail@resist.ca> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS & LAWRENCE M. STRATTON - June 3, 2008 The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil liberty that Bush justified in the name of the ?war on terror.? The government assured us that the draconian measures apply only to ?terrorists.? The word terrorist...was not defined...[R]ealization spread that the Bush administration?s assault on the Bill of Rights is a greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/legislating_tyranny_the_bush_administrations_assault_civil_liberties URL: http://mostlywater.org/legislating_tyranny_the_bush_administrations_assault_civil_liberties From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 16 09:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Truth Behind the Rwanda Genocide Starts to Emerge Message-ID: <20080616161704.4386.qmail@resist.ca> ICTR Defence Lawyers straight up on US/UK involvement in the Rwanda Genocide, and the latest shocking developments at the ICTR. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_truth_behind_rwanda_genocide_starts_emerge URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_truth_behind_rwanda_genocide_starts_emerge From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 16 09:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" (Part I) Message-ID: <20080616161704.4387.qmail@resist.ca> A thundering denunciation of US imperialism and its dangers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/doug_dowds_at_cliffs_edge_part_i URL: http://mostlywater.org/doug_dowds_at_cliffs_edge_part_i From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 16 09:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Recreation, Leisure, and Activism Message-ID: <20080616161704.4384.qmail@resist.ca> "While a growing class of millionaires is able to enjoy a host of expensive forms of recreation, those in the nation's urban ghettos and rural slums lack even minimal resources for needed recreation; a contrast that has been described as "recreation apartheid." - From "Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society" (Edited by McLean, Hurd and Roger, 2008) [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/recreation_leisure_and_activism URL: http://mostlywater.org/recreation_leisure_and_activism From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 17 00:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Workers Demand Immediate End to War in Afghanistan Message-ID: <20080617071703.11820.qmail@resist.ca> by Michael Skinner On 29 May 2009, the delegates at the national convention of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), representing more than three million workers from every region of Canada and Quebec, voted overwhelmingly to demand that the Government of Canada immediately end its participation in the illegal war in Afghanistan...Now that the workers of Canada and Quebec have officially declared our solidarity with Afghan workers, it is time to begin building bridges to join our struggles against the new authoritarianism and theocracy in Afghanistan and Western and Canadian imperialism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_workers_demand_immediate_end_war_afghanistan_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_workers_demand_immediate_end_war_afghanistan_0 From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 17 06:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] What is NATO Doing in Afghanistan? Message-ID: <20080617131704.32050.qmail@resist.ca> By FAHEEM HUSSAIN - June 6, 2008 What is NATO doing in Afghanistan? What are the true aims of NATO intervention in the region? These are the questions that I mean to address in this article. To understand what is happening in Afghanistan one has to go back to the attack on Yugoslavia by NATO forces in February 1999. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/what_nato_doing_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/what_nato_doing_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 17 07:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Unions and Management Aren't on the Same Team Message-ID: <20080617141704.31294.qmail@resist.ca> By DAVID MACARAY - Counterpunch During the mid-1980s, America?s labor unions made a critical and momentous error in judgement. Their error was trusting management...The lesson for organized labor is simple: Stay united, stay focused on core principles, don?t trust anything that comes out of management?s mouth. Above all, don?t let anyone pretend that union-management relations aren?t adversarial in nature, because it?s not true. The two sides don?t want the same thing. They never have and never will. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/unions_and_management_arent_same_team URL: http://mostlywater.org/unions_and_management_arent_same_team From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 17 07:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?T2JhbWHigJlz?= Chicago Boys Message-ID: <20080617141704.31295.qmail@resist.ca> By Naomi Klein - June, 17 2008 Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare..."Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market"...Demonstrating that this is no mere spring fling, he has appointed...Jason Furman to head his economic policy team. Furman is one of Wal-Mart's most prominent defenders, anointing the company a "progressive success story." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/obama%E2%80%99s_chicago_boys_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/obama%E2%80%99s_chicago_boys_0 From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 17 07:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Obama is a Hawk Message-ID: <20080617141704.31296.qmail@resist.ca> by John Pilger - 12 Jun 2008 It is time the wishful-thinkers grew up politically and debated the world of great power as it is, not as they hope it will be. Like all serious presidential candidates, past and present, Obama is a hawk and an expansionist. He comes from an unbroken Democratic tradition, as the war-making of presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton demonstrates. Obama?s difference may be that he feels an even greater need to show how tough he is. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/obama_a_hawk URL: http://mostlywater.org/obama_a_hawk From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 18 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" - Part II Message-ID: <20080618191704.20806.qmail@resist.ca> Dowd's stinging indictment of US imperialism - Part II. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/doug_dowds_at_cliffs_edge_part_ii URL: http://mostlywater.org/doug_dowds_at_cliffs_edge_part_ii From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 18 13:17:28 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:17:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites Message-ID: <20080618201728.15910.qmail@resist.ca> Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites: Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories and Nunavut by Terry Milewski | CBC [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/lakes_across_canada_face_being_turned_mine_dump_sites URL: http://mostlywater.org/lakes_across_canada_face_being_turned_mine_dump_sites From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 18 19:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Psychopathic Groups and Distorted Definitions Message-ID: <20080619021703.31088.qmail@resist.ca> The use of an inner, or esoteric, language to intentionally deceive is a trademark characteristic of the psychopathic personality or psychopathically dominated group. This is nicely summarized in Andrew M. Lobaczewski?s Political Ponerology. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/psychopathic_groups_and_distorted_definitions URL: http://mostlywater.org/psychopathic_groups_and_distorted_definitions From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 19 09:17:21 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] On the Future of Israel and Palestine: An Interview with Ilan =?utf-8?b?UGFwcMOp?= and Noam Chomsky Message-ID: <20080619161721.15103.qmail@resist.ca> June 6, 2008 - Counterpunch "There has been a very clear shift in recent years...It was not long ago that police protection was a standard feature of talks at all critical of Israeli policies, meetings were broken up, audiences very hostile and abusive. By now it is sharply different...Apologists for Israeli violence now tend often to be defensive and desperate, rather than arrogant and overbearing. But the critique of Israeli actions is thin, because the basic facts are systematically suppressed." --**Noam Chomsky** [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/on_future_israel_and_palestine_an_interview_with_ilan_papp%C3%A9_and_noam_chomsky_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/on_future_israel_and_palestine_an_interview_with_ilan_papp%C3%A9_and_noam_chomsky_0 From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 19 10:17:17 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Triumph of Lunacy: The Military-Industrial Complex, the Christian Right, and the =?utf-8?b?4oCcTGliZXJhbE1lZGlh4oCd?= Message-ID: <20080619171717.27594.qmail@resist.ca> By Edward S. Herman - June 2, 2008 [N]uclear warfare has...become more likely because of U.S. militarization, projection of power, actual warfare spread across the globe?under the cover of an alleged "war on terror"?and deliberate fear-mongering. The "clash of civilizations" is essentially a war of the United States and its allies against the Third World...This has helped reduce moral barriers to barbarism: to mass killing, pain infliction, and devastation on the growing ranks of "enemies." Continuous warfare, daily reports of killings and torture, and fear- mongering, have hardened as well as frightened people, making them more easily adjusted to formerly beyond-the-pale modes of killing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/triumph_lunacy_the_militaryindustrial_complex_christian_right_and_%E2%80%9Cliberal_media%E2%80%9D URL: http://mostlywater.org/triumph_lunacy_the_militaryindustrial_complex_christian_right_and_%E2%80%9Cliberal_media%E2%80%9D From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 19 12:17:32 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:17:32 -0000 Subject: [news] Chinese Beer Bottle Solar Water Heater Message-ID: <20080619191735.1392.qmail@resist.ca> The Daily Times, Pakistan, May 13, 2008 Now here's an idea that anarchists can get behind. You already have all those beer bottles and you've been wondering what to do with them... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chinese_beer_bottle_solar_water_heater URL: http://mostlywater.org/chinese_beer_bottle_solar_water_heater From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 20 10:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Is US Congressional Resolution Declaring War with Iran? Message-ID: <20080620171710.18417.qmail@resist.ca> A House resolution effectively requiring a naval blockade on Iran seems fast tracked for passage, gaining co-sponsors at a remarkable speed, but experts say the measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_us_congressional_resolution_declaring_war_with_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_us_congressional_resolution_declaring_war_with_iran From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 20 10:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Learn to Build a Boat at Seattle's Wooden Boat Center Message-ID: <20080620171710.18422.qmail@resist.ca> Seattle's Wooden Boat Center offers an amazing wealth of skill sharing, story telling, and maritime history. The WBC offers not only "float in" movies, like drive ins movies with cars, but with boats, but they also offer a trade system where you can volunteer and trade those hours for free sailing lessons, free sailboat rentals, etc. The WBC also has wooden boat building classes and even has a family sailboat building class where families make their own boats... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/learn_build_a_boat_seattles_wooden_boat_center URL: http://mostlywater.org/learn_build_a_boat_seattles_wooden_boat_center From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 20 10:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] SuperCorridor Defeat? Don't Bet On It Message-ID: <20080620171710.18427.qmail@resist.ca> Despite a setback, the North American Union SuperCorridor remains viable. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/supercorridor_defeat_dont_bet_on_it URL: http://mostlywater.org/supercorridor_defeat_dont_bet_on_it From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 20 15:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Mohawk Grandmothers Attacked by Canadian Border Guards Message-ID: <20080620221704.29090.qmail@resist.ca> [From **No One Is Illegal - Montreal**] This past Saturday, _Katenies_ reiterated that she does not recognize the authority of the [Canadian Border Services Agency] over Kanion'ke:haka [Mohawk] land...She was then brutally arrested, with at least four male guards forcing her face down onto the ground, handcuffing her, and taking her into custody, where she remained for three days...CBSA guards then demanded that, _Kahentinehta_, 68, leave the car she was driving. She refused, and she too was brutally overpowered by at least four male CBSA guards and handcuffed tightly. Kahentinehta suffered a heart attack... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mohawk_grandmothers_attacked_canadian_border_guards URL: http://mostlywater.org/mohawk_grandmothers_attacked_canadian_border_guards From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 20 19:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Statimc Native Youth Movement International Statement: No 2010 Olympics on Native Land! Message-ID: <20080621021704.11977.qmail@resist.ca> Statimc Native Youth Movement Warrior Society Please accept this letter as a declaration of opposition to the upcoming [Vancouver/Whistler] 2010 [Winter] Olympics set to take place within traditional St?at?imc Borders. Many members of our Nation, including children, youth, elders and land users do not support the Olympics taking place in Whistler.... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/statimc_native_youth_movement_international_statement_no_2010_olympics_native_land URL: http://mostlywater.org/statimc_native_youth_movement_international_statement_no_2010_olympics_native_land From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 20 23:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Kurds and American Neo-Imperialism Message-ID: <20080621061704.27874.qmail@resist.ca> By KAMRAN MATIN - May 23, 2008 Today the Kurdish people, particularly in Iraq and Iran, find themselves in a critical conjuncture. The American imperial project in the Middle East seems...to be compatible with the Kurdish national struggle whose strengthening directly undermines the state-classes of Iran and Syria where US seeks further ?regime-change?. Given the brutality with which these states have treated their Kurdish sub-citizens the temptation to...side with the American project has been rather strong not only among the traditional Kurdish nationalist political parties but also among the ordinary Kurdish people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_kurds_and_american_neoimperialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_kurds_and_american_neoimperialism From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 21 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Homeland Security's Enemy Next Door Message-ID: <20080621181705.15350.qmail@resist.ca> By Tom Barry - June 16 2008 What began as a war on terrorists has become a war on immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security says that it prioritizes its immigration enforcement actions by "targeting the greatest national security and public safety threats"?an approach not taken prior to 9/11...Faced with failure, the Bush administration's stated resolve to dismantle international terrorism has devolved into an attack on a far more vulnerable and proximate target?Latin American immigrants. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/homeland_securitys_enemy_next_door URL: http://mostlywater.org/homeland_securitys_enemy_next_door From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 21 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] On the Pogroms in South Africa Message-ID: <20080621181705.15351.qmail@resist.ca> An essay on the May 2008 pogroms in South Africa The state is, again, sending in bulldozers and men with guns to move the poor from central shack settlements to peripheral townships. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/on_pogroms_south_africa URL: http://mostlywater.org/on_pogroms_south_africa From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 21 20:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada for Anti-Imperialists (Part I) Message-ID: <20080622031705.17121.qmail@resist.ca> By Justin Podur - July 03, 2004 What is the historical pattern of Canadian foreign policy? What is Canada up to today and why? Opposing imperial depredations is something everyone of conscience must do, but we can have more effect...over what Canada does, so it is important to know what that is: the record is mainly one of complicity, hypocrisy, and the occasional open crime. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_antiimperialists_part_i URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_antiimperialists_part_i From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 22 11:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Updates on OCAP Occupation of Allan Gardens Message-ID: <20080622181704.23411.qmail@resist.ca> "Miller has attacked people by closing down over 350 shelter beds, canceling tens of thousands of meals, and increasing the number of tickets laid against people on the streets under the Safe Streets Act by 288%. If Miller won't give us what we need, we will keep fighting until we get it," [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/updates_ocap_occupation_allan_gardens URL: http://mostlywater.org/updates_ocap_occupation_allan_gardens From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 22 15:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Zimbabwe Election is "Violent Sham": Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Withdraws from Runoff Vote Message-ID: <20080622221704.3759.qmail@resist.ca> CBC Newsunday - June 22, 2008 Zimbabwe's opposition leader has pulled out of Friday's runoff election against President Robert Mugabe because of mounting violence and intimidation against opposition candidates...He also asked the United Nations "to intervene to restore the rule of law, peace, and the conditions of a free and fair election." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zimbabwe_election_violent_sham_zimbabwe_opposition_leader_withdraws_runoff_vote URL: http://mostlywater.org/zimbabwe_election_violent_sham_zimbabwe_opposition_leader_withdraws_runoff_vote From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Under Bill C-51 Genetically-engineered Plants Become "Natural" Message-ID: <20080623191704.17653.qmail@resist.ca> "Health Canada's mission is to ...help ensure that the natural health products Canadians use are ...labelled accordingly and truthfully" [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/under_bill_c51_geneticallyengineered_plants_become_natural URL: http://mostlywater.org/under_bill_c51_geneticallyengineered_plants_become_natural From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Supreme Court, Habeas, John Yoo and Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Message-ID: <20080623191704.17655.qmail@resist.ca> Exposing war criminals and their allies like Yoo and Murdoch. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_supreme_court_habeas_john_yoo_and_murdochs_wall_street_journal URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_supreme_court_habeas_john_yoo_and_murdochs_wall_street_journal From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada is Wrong not to Give Asylum to US War Resisters Message-ID: <20080623191704.17654.qmail@resist.ca> Canada accepted thousands of 'Nam dodgers but now threatens to deport Iraq resisters. There aren't many checks and balances against military recklessness, but easy asylum can be one of them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_wrong_not_give_asylum_us_war_resisters URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_wrong_not_give_asylum_us_war_resisters From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Master's Student Earns Top Marks for Dissent Message-ID: <20080623191705.17656.qmail@resist.ca> Kate Hammer University of Toronto rabble-rouser graduates in a gown of protest - but still faces criminal charges from a sit-in gone wrong [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/masters_student_earns_top_marks_dissent URL: http://mostlywater.org/masters_student_earns_top_marks_dissent From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 19:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Mere Exposure to John McCain Can Be Dangerous Message-ID: <20080624021704.32613.qmail@resist.ca> About a month ago FOX News was caught hiding a smiling John McCain in the animation of one of their shows (see video below). Why would they go to such an effort, and break the law, to hide an imperceptible John McCain? Below is an excerpt from a standard social cognition book which will explain a lot. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mere_exposure_john_mccain_can_be_dangerous URL: http://mostlywater.org/mere_exposure_john_mccain_can_be_dangerous From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 19:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Abuse of Foreign Workers Unavoidable" Message-ID: <20080624021704.32614.qmail@resist.ca> Elise Stolte, Canwest News Service EDMONTON - Some abuse of foreigners working temporarily in Alberta is unavoidable because of conditions in their home countries, Alberta's minister of Employment and Immigration suggested Wednesday. Hector Goudreau was reacting to news that as many as 120 Chinese workers were paid a fraction of what they were owed for work building tanks at a northern Alberta oilsands site. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/abuse_foreign_workers_unavoidable URL: http://mostlywater.org/abuse_foreign_workers_unavoidable From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 23 23:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Shock as Canada Rejects Iraq Refugees Message-ID: <20080624061704.8609.qmail@resist.ca> by Nicholas Keung - Toronto Star The treatment of Armenian Iraqis reminds Toronto immigration lawyer Chantal Desloges of how Jewish refugees fleeing the Soviet Union after its collapse in the 1990s were denied refugee status and told to resettle in Israel instead...A client of hers in Syria already tried to go to Armenia after being rejected by Canada and was refused. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/shock_canada_rejects_iraq_refugees URL: http://mostlywater.org/shock_canada_rejects_iraq_refugees From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 24 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A Nation of Carefully Selected Immigrants Message-ID: <20080624171703.32276.qmail@resist.ca> **Liberal MPs abstain, leading to major changes to immigration policy** by Maya Rolbin-Ghanie On March 14, Canada's Conservative government introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Instead of being presented as an immigration bill, the new reforms were slipped into Bill C-50, the 136-page "budget implementation bill" as pertains to this year's federal budget. The government launched an ad campaign in hundreds of ethnic newspapers, at a cost of $1.1-million, touting the measures while they were still before Parliament. In addition, Stephen Harper's government raised the stakes for any opposition by making the bill a confidence vote. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_nation_carefully_selected_immigrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_nation_carefully_selected_immigrants From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 24 12:17:23 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Cops Use Force - From Restraint to Drawn Guns - in 20% of Stops, Data Show Message-ID: <20080624191723.3348.qmail@resist.ca> By Benjamin Lesser and Greg Smith | Daily News One in five New Yorkers stopped by police in 2006 encountered some use of force, from simple restraint to facing a drawn service weapon, a Daily News analysis of new data found. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cops_use_force_restraint_drawn_guns_20_stops_data_show URL: http://mostlywater.org/cops_use_force_restraint_drawn_guns_20_stops_data_show From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 24 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Desire to Preserve Wealth Drives Criminal Justice System: Crime is Falling, but Obsession with Locking People Up Keeps Growing Message-ID: <20080624201704.31101.qmail@resist.ca> by George Monbiot - The Guardian The people who help to generate the public demand for long prison terms (newspaper [owners] and editors) and the people who mete it out (judges and magistrates) are drawn overwhelmingly from the property-owning classes...Money breeds paranoia, and paranoia keeps people in prison. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/desire_preserve_wealth_drives_criminal_justice_system_crime_falling_obsession_with_locking_people_up_keeps_growing URL: http://mostlywater.org/desire_preserve_wealth_drives_criminal_justice_system_crime_falling_obsession_with_locking_people_up_keeps_growing From news at resist.ca Tue Jun 24 23:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War Message-ID: <20080625061704.16443.qmail@resist.ca> By Chris Hedges - June, 05 2008 American Marines and soldiers have become socialized to atrocity. The killing project is not described in these terms to a distant public. The politicians still speak in the abstract terms of glory, honor, and heroism, in the necessity of improving the world, in lofty phrases of political and spiritual renewal. Those who kill large numbers of people always claim it as a virtue. The campaign to rid the world of terror is expressed within the confines of this rhetoric, as if once all terrorists are destroyed evil itself will vanish. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/collateral_damage_what_it_really_means_when_america_goes_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/collateral_damage_what_it_really_means_when_america_goes_war From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 25 09:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media - Part I Message-ID: <20080625161705.22502.qmail@resist.ca> Another tour de force from our most noted media scholar and critic. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/robert_mcchesneys_the_political_economy_media_part_i URL: http://mostlywater.org/robert_mcchesneys_the_political_economy_media_part_i From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 25 10:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Make No Mistake: McCain's a Neocon Message-ID: <20080625171709.2449.qmail@resist.ca> Robert Parry | Consortium News Since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain has sought to hide the forest of his neoconservative alignment with George W. Bush amid the trees of details, such as stressing differences over military tactics used in Iraq. But the larger reality should be clear: McCain is a hard-line neoconservative who buys into Bush?s ?preemptive war? theories abroad and his concept of an all-powerful ?unitary executive? at home. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/make_no_mistake_mccains_a_neocon URL: http://mostlywater.org/make_no_mistake_mccains_a_neocon From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 25 10:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Eighty Mexicans Spend Night in Canadian Jail and Sent Home Message-ID: <20080625171709.2450.qmail@resist.ca> By Tom Sandborn Mexicans seeking work were tricked, detained, and deported. A desperate journey in search of work and a better future in Canada turned into an expensive, dead end nightmare for 80 Mexican citizens. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/eighty_jailed_and_sent_home_news URL: http://mostlywater.org/eighty_jailed_and_sent_home_news From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 25 12:17:22 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:17:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada: Peacekeeper or Warmonger? Message-ID: <20080625191723.16024.qmail@resist.ca> By: Ian Sinclair | Winnipeg Free Press [W]hile the United States is seen as a bellicose, aggressive superpower, many Canadians view their nation as the leading peacekeeping force in the world...This quaint picture of nation-building and development work sits uneasily with the cold facts of the Canadian deployment... In reality...Canadian troops (in Afghanistan) fired an incredible 4.7 million bullets between April 2006 and December 2007... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_peacekeeper_or_warmonger URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_peacekeeper_or_warmonger From news at resist.ca Wed Jun 25 16:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Organizing for Freedom: Inside Angola Prison, Louisiana's Last Slave Plantation Message-ID: <20080625231704.31648.qmail@resist.ca> By JORDAN FLAHERTY - June 10, 2008 At the heart of Louisiana?s prison system sits the Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former slave plantation where little has changed in the last several hundred years...Recent congressional attention has again brought Angola into the media limelight. The focus this time is on the prison?s practice of keeping some inmates in solitary confinement for decades, especially two of Angola?s most well-known residents ? **Herman Wallace** and **Albert Woodfox**. Woodfox and Wallace are the remaining members of the **Angola Three**, political activists widely seen as having been interned in solitary confinement as punishment for their political activism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/organizing_freedom_inside_angola_prison_louisianas_last_slave_plantation URL: http://mostlywater.org/organizing_freedom_inside_angola_prison_louisianas_last_slave_plantation From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 26 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Fourth Estate: The Power of the Media Message-ID: <20080626201705.20597.qmail@resist.ca> From: Ruthless Criticism Translated from [www.contradictio.de][1] Media methodology. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.contradictio.de (www.contradictio.de) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/the_fourth_estatethe_power_media URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_fourth_estatethe_power_media From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 26 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Crash Course =?utf-8?b?4oCT?= A Book to Guide, not Divide Peak Oil Believers Message-ID: <20080626201705.20598.qmail@resist.ca> _Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil_ By Zachary Nowak Reviewed by Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness ([www.seattleoil.com][1]) We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.seattleoil.com (www.seattleoil.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/crash_course_%E2%80%93_a_book_guide_not_divide_peak_oil_believers URL: http://mostlywater.org/crash_course_%E2%80%93_a_book_guide_not_divide_peak_oil_believers From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 26 14:17:19 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Plan a Tar Sands Vacation! Message-ID: <20080626211720.3662.qmail@resist.ca> Your dream vacation awaits you in the "other" Alberta. While most tourists know Alberta for its rodeos and mountain views, new oilier destinations are expanding now. Come frolic on the black sand beaches! Paraglide the methane gas updrafts over tailing ponds the size of 12,000 football fields! Try your hand at water diversion surfing! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/video_plan_a_tar_sands_vacation URL: http://mostlywater.org/video_plan_a_tar_sands_vacation From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 26 14:17:20 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Algonquins of Barriere Lake Occupy MP's Office Message-ID: <20080626211720.3667.qmail@resist.ca> Support Urgently Needed for Algonquins of Barriere Lake Today a group of Algonquin youth and supporters entered MP Lawrence Canon's office to demand a meeting with him. They are refusing to leave until this happens. Anyone able to come to the Buckingham constituency office to lend support is invited to attend. They've been told they will be arrested unless they leave. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/algonquins_barriere_lake_occupy_mps_office URL: http://mostlywater.org/algonquins_barriere_lake_occupy_mps_office From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 26 17:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A New Cold War? Message-ID: <20080627001704.6378.qmail@resist.ca> By Conn Hallinan - Znet Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite...If NATO falls apart...history suggests that we will probably all be better off. Military alliances have a way of making people miscalculate, and miscalculating in a world filled with nuclear weapons is a dangerously bad idea. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_new_cold_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_new_cold_war From news at resist.ca Thu Jun 26 19:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada for Anti-Imperialists (Part II) Message-ID: <20080627021705.12516.qmail@resist.ca> By Justin Podur - July, 03 2004 What does a military do when it is not focusing on plausible external threats? Too often, they become instruments for suppressing the local population. Many of the major Canadian military mobilizations in recent history have been against the population, especially the indigenous. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_antiimperialists_part_ii URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_antiimperialists_part_ii From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 07:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media - Part II Message-ID: <20080627141704.22330.qmail@resist.ca> Part II of another McChesney tour de force. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/robert_mcchesneys_the_political_economy_media_part_ii URL: http://mostlywater.org/robert_mcchesneys_the_political_economy_media_part_ii From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 07:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: Imperialism as Humanitarian Action Message-ID: <20080627141705.22331.qmail@resist.ca> FROM Ruthless Criticism [Translated from Gegenargumente Vienna 20 July 2004] The leading powers of the democratic world are on the way in a humanitarian mission with their troops from around the world: They export democracy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_imperialism_humanitarian_action URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_imperialism_humanitarian_action From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 07:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Subcomandante =?utf-8?b?TWFyY29z4oCZ4oCcR29vZE5vc2XigJ0=?= or "What Does War Smell Like?" Message-ID: <20080627141705.22332.qmail@resist.ca> What does war smell like? How much pain does its odour cause? Half a year has passed since close to fifty humanists from various countries met in the University of the Land in San Crist?bal de las Casas, Chiapas. They responded to a call of the Sixth Commission of the EZLN. When the colloquium was at the point of ending Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos spoke to say: ?Those of us who have been at war know how to recognize the paths through which it is prepared and nears us. The signals of war in the horizon are clear. War, like fear, also has an odour. And now we begin to breathe its fetid odour in our lands? (December 16, 2007). SIDE NOTE: Naomi Klein was present at the International Colloquium mentioned in this article. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/subcomandante_marcos%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9Cgood_nose%E2%80%9D_or_what_does_war_smell URL: http://mostlywater.org/subcomandante_marcos%E2%80%99_%E2%80%9Cgood_nose%E2%80%9D_or_what_does_war_smell From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 09:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] No Ice At The North Pole: Polar Scientists Reveal Dramatic New Evidence of Climate Chang Message-ID: <20080627161705.2609.qmail@resist.ca> It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/no_ice_at_the_north_pole_polar_scientists_reveal_dramatic_new_evidence_climate_chang URL: http://mostlywater.org/no_ice_at_the_north_pole_polar_scientists_reveal_dramatic_new_evidence_climate_chang From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 09:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Sizeable Minority in US Condone Torture Message-ID: <20080627161705.2611.qmail@resist.ca> UNITED NATIONS - The number of Americans who would condone torture, at least when used on terrorists in order to save lives, has risen over the past two years and now stands at over 40 percent, according to a new opinion poll. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sizeable_minority_in_us_condone_torture URL: http://mostlywater.org/sizeable_minority_in_us_condone_torture From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 09:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Exxon Let Off the Hook: Systemic Discrimination in the Supreme Court Message-ID: <20080627161705.2610.qmail@resist.ca> On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that literally punishes Alaska Natives for the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. The court told the company that they now only have to pay a tenth of the $5 billion in punitive damages that were awarded by a jury 14 years ago. "Exxon knew this would happen"... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/systemic_discrimination_supreme_court URL: http://mostlywater.org/systemic_discrimination_supreme_court From news at resist.ca Fri Jun 27 20:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Aboriginal Protests Watched by CSIS Message-ID: <20080628031703.20267.qmail@resist.ca> TORONTO -- Canadian security officials kept a close watch on aboriginal rights protests across the country last summer, fearing violence and disruption, according to newly declassified government documents. Intelligence reports obtained by National Post reveal for the first time how the Canadian government tracked "ongoing and planned protests" by First Nations and their supporters from British Columbia to the Maritimes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/aboriginal_protests_watched_csis URL: http://mostlywater.org/aboriginal_protests_watched_csis From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 28 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Imus the Bigot is Back Message-ID: <20080628191704.12709.qmail@resist.ca> By Dave Zirin - June, 28 2008 [**Don Imus**] is the man run out of CBS radio and MSNBC last year for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos." This is the man who said that respected African-American journalist Gwen Ifill looked like "the cleaning lady." This is the man whose sidekicks routinely indulge in aggressive anti-Arab racism that elicits chills instead of giggles. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/imus_bigot_back URL: http://mostlywater.org/imus_bigot_back From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 28 13:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] RCMPigs Cleared in Pepper Spraying of Infant (Two Articles) Message-ID: <20080628201703.7757.qmail@resist.ca> "Last year?s [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] pepper-spraying of several Sechelt band infants, youths, and elders was 'regrettable' but 'appropriate in the circumstances', according to an [internal RCMP] police report...[Former Chief] Stan Dixon laid a complaint into the July 2007 incident with the Sunshine Coast RCMP...Of the four allegations of misconduct the RCMP looked into?improper use of force, improper attitude, irregularity in procedure, and a driving irregularity?the investigation cleared the officers of every one..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rcmpigs_cleared_pepper_spraying_infant_two_articles URL: http://mostlywater.org/rcmpigs_cleared_pepper_spraying_infant_two_articles From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 28 15:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] British Bush Whacking Message-ID: <20080628221703.12306.qmail@resist.ca> By **SchNEWS**, Britain's Direct Action Newsletter "The planned [Stop the War]/[Socialist Workers Party] demo against [US President George W. Bush's] last UK visit...was more exiting than [your] standard march [and] chant affair...Despite the best efforts of the 'Stop the War' coalition to serve up a generic McMarch against the "World's No.1 Terrorist", an [up-for-it] crowd of some 2,000 people defied the wishes of the police and STW stewards and tried their damnedest to deliver their message in person..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/british_bush_whacking URL: http://mostlywater.org/british_bush_whacking From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 28 18:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Zimbabwe at War Message-ID: <20080629011709.25813.qmail@resist.ca> Whenever a bona fide neoliberal Bush puppet like Stephen Harper sounds off against someone like 'the dictator' Mugabe, something is up. What is up is another destabilization and regime change attempt in progress on behalf of Western capital and Imperialism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zimbabwe_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/zimbabwe_war From news at resist.ca Sat Jun 28 22:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Militarization and Counter-Insurgency in Chiapas Message-ID: <20080629051706.32310.qmail@resist.ca> The Zapatista uprising began 15 years ago under the banner of democracy, justice, and liberty. Over the course of those 15 years, indigenous and peasant communities have upheld their struggle despite the government?s [![][1]][2]counterinsurgency agenda. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/mujer_contra_soldados.thumbnail.jpg () [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/militarization_and_counterinsurgency_chiapas URL: http://mostlywater.org/militarization_and_counterinsurgency_chiapas From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 29 12:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Mugabe, Britain and the Abuses of Anti-Colonialism Message-ID: <20080629191708.10592.qmail@resist.ca> By Priyamvada Gopal - June, 29 2008 As Zimbabwe spirals into further political chaos, [Robert] Mugabe and his party's addiction to power will further indulge an equally self-serving Western appetite for spectacles of Third World despotism. If Mugabe finds it convenient to invoke the demon of colonial oppression...he also enables British politicians to spout pieties condemning violence while their own nation is currently implicated in two dubious and bloody wars...The British government turns accusatory fingers in Zimbabwe's direction while Mugabe shouts back anti-colonial slogans...The only innocents, however, are ordinary Zimbabweans. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mugabe_britain_and_abuses_anticolonialism_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/mugabe_britain_and_abuses_anticolonialism_0 From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 29 14:17:12 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] The Dead End of Zionism Message-ID: <20080629211712.19558.qmail@resist.ca> "...[T]ry to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it any employment in our own country ... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." --**Theodor Herzl**, Founder of Zionism, 1895 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_dead_end_zionism URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_dead_end_zionism From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 29 15:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] What do Republicans Yearn For? Another 9-11 Message-ID: <20080629221703.16046.qmail@resist.ca> By ALEXANDER COCKBURN - June 28/29, 2008 "Everybody knows it, but it took a tacky Republican operator to come right out and say it. Charlie Black, John McCain?s campaign adviser, recently let drop to _Fortune_ magazine that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big advantage" for the Republican presidential candidate. Of course McCain lost no time in distancing himself from Black?s remark, with...bogus moral outrage..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/what_do_republicans_yearn_for_another_911 URL: http://mostlywater.org/what_do_republicans_yearn_for_another_911 From news at resist.ca Sun Jun 29 21:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Wage Reduction Made in the USA: Auto Capital Eliminates its Social Dead Weight Message-ID: <20080630041705.32178.qmail@resist.ca> FROM: [www.ruthlesscriticism.com][1] [Translated from GegenStandpunkt 2?08] GM, Ford and Chrysler...are no longer successful enough in the competition on the world's largest domestic automobile market. The competing American multinationals agree that this is an unbearable situation, so costs must be reduced. And the costs that are first and most crucially in sight are the wages of the employees who once had been regarded as living proof that in the heartland of modern capitalism the American worker ? successfully represented in a union - earns a good income for good work. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com (www.ruthlesscriticism.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/wage_reduction_made_usaauto_capital_eliminates_its_social_dead_weight URL: http://mostlywater.org/wage_reduction_made_usaauto_capital_eliminates_its_social_dead_weight From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 30 19:17:18 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Scientific Technique and Power Message-ID: <20080701021719.12293.qmail@resist.ca> This article will examine the use of scientific technique to increase the power of an elite scientific minority over the unscientific masses as discussed in Bertrand Russell's 1931 book _The Scientific Outlook_. The basic theme of this book is to describe a society, partially in the future, partially currently in place (circa 1930s) dominated by scientific thought and technique. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/scientific_technique_and_power URL: http://mostlywater.org/scientific_technique_and_power From news at resist.ca Mon Jun 30 20:17:24 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Blaming the Brain: Another Look at Mental Illness Message-ID: <20080701031724.22168.qmail@resist.ca> In light of recent aggressive efforts by Canada's "national newspaper" the _Globe and Mail_ to promote the concept of psychological difficulties as "mental illness" here is some more critical views. The belief that personal problems in the abstract constitute a "disease" is a very reactionary notion. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/blaming_brain_another_look_mental_illness_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/blaming_brain_another_look_mental_illness_0