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News

White fishermen raid Burnt Church - AGAIN - Parker Barrs Donham
  Raiders charged boats, threw beer bottles: RCMP stood by.
 
 
 

Politics
Liberals' "strategic voting" loses in critical T.O. by-election - Ish Theilheimer
  Bouyed by working-class East York support, NDP's Prue coasts to win despite smear allegations.

The future of the Left looks a little brighter this week with the election of Michael Prue (third from left).
 
 
 

Workplace

The Workplace of the Future, Post 9/11 - Jim Carroll
  Security fears, technological advances will spur big changes in how we work.

Media
When journalists report for duty - Norman Solomon
  More than ever, the news profession is morphing into PR flackery for Uncle Sam. A link to FAIR.

From the DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ Department:
Yahoo! News hacked
  Hacker tinkers with news articles undetected.

Consumers
Electricity Deregulation and Consumers
  Lessons from the Consumers Federation of America from a hot spring and a cool summer.

The Attack and After
Flight from freedom
  Pollster Marc Zwelling writes that Americans seem to be fleeing the very liberties that distinguish democracy from its enemies.
 

Robert Fisk: How can the US bomb this tragic people?
  Twenty years after arming the Taliban and bin Ladin - then abandoning Afghnistan - the only superpower prepares to bomb the population. A link to the Independent.

Afghans were the first victims of the perpetrators - Afghani-American Tamim Ansary.
 
 

New from Michael Moore:
Americans not only interested in revenge
  Sounding out ordinary people on a cross-country car trip reveals many have more thoughtful approach - Tears Down the West Side Highway - A personal return, by car, to New York to mourn with New Yorkers.

Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
  University of Ottawa economic professor Michel Chossudovsky documents the CIA's longstanding links to Pakistani intelligence and the web around Ben Laden, who was recruited, trained and funded to fight the Soviets.

Qs and As on Sept 11 and after - ZMag
  Before the US throws itself into its "new war", there are pressing questions.

Pollsters don't make good generals - Naomi Klein
  What if our leaders are actually following us, instead of the other way around? A link to the Globe and Mail.
 

Attack On America - how it may affect you
  Advise from the Canadian Psychological Association.

My lifelong scepticism about flags
  When Canadian filmmaker Boyce Richardson was a teenager in New Zealand in the 1940s, he decided that flags are no good, since more bad things than good are done by flag-wavers.

Future of the Left
NDP calls for reform
  A committee of party insiders and outsiders issues an articulate call for change but leaves many difficult blanks to fill in an interim report.

Action
9-11 Peace website responds to war on terrorism
  A resource for advocating peaceful action.

Organizing to defend Ontario health care

Posted: September 24, 2001