Are we getting the media we deserve? - Tabassum Siddiqui
  Straight Goods panel takes on the state of journalism.
 

Alive and kicking despite dot com carnage
  Straight Goods caps successful fund-raising drive with second annual meeting and harbourfront reception.

Alberta health care? Don't Go There! - Gillian Steward
  Alberta's Experiment with For-Profit Health Care.
 
 

The Straight Goods Cyber Forum with Larry Solway

Why did Harris resign?
  Larry observes that things look a little different in the economic gloom hovering over Ontario, don't they?

Join Larry's cyber-forum and share your views.

What's your reaction to Harris's resignation? Take the Straight Goods Cyber Forum survey and qualify for the Straight Goods draw.
 
 

A Straight Goods book excerpt

The next big dot com thing
  An excerpt from Jim Carroll's new book Get a Digital Life: An Internet Reality Check
 
 

Media files
Wars sell newspapers and newspapers sell wars - Mel Watkins
  The most important role of alternative media is embarrassing the mainstream media into truth telling, not critiquing them.

Whither lasting personal and national security? - Barrie Zwicker
  40,000 needless deaths on September 11th show need for commitment to relieving the globe's fundamental problems.

Awards for courageous journalists
  Four journalists from China, Zimbabwe, Argentina and the West Bank - who have defied death threats, braved bullets, and endured jail - have won International Press Freedom Awards.

Media watchdog Brill's Content folds
  Partnership with Primedia doesn't last. From CNN.com.

Media blackout
  The U.S. government bought itself exclusive rights to commercial satellite pictures of the Afghanistan war zone. The media and the public now depend on the Pentagon for images. A link to Yahoo.

The New War
Poll on September 11 - NewsWire
  Canadians are split on the best response to the terrorist attacks and fear reprisals at home.

We will be less free. But will we be more safe?
  Parker Barrs Donham on the "hard-edged" anti-terrorism bill.
 
 

Europe protests the new war - Richard Swift, New Internationalist
  Veteran activists, anti-globalists and Muslims were among the thousands protesting the war in Europe this October.

Critic of U.S. policy responds to controversy
  Sunera Thobani responds to critics who were shocked when she used the words "soaked in blood" to describe U.S. foreign policy during a recent speech.

Michele Landsberg of The Toronto Star, calls the media reaction to Thobani's speech a "hate campaign".
 

Rosalie Bertell warns that war effort will accelerate weapons development and undermine civil liberties - Penney Kome. A link to rabble.ca.
 

Granny "D" Haddock is not feeling too patriotic about the war
  A speech by this eloquent 91 year-old thinker.
 

What the Islamic world hears when Blair and Bush speak - Dr. Mohamed Khodr
  A link to TomPaine.com.

Midwives and mothers speak against violence
  Group urges government to reconsider a peacekeeping role.

Dragnet in the wake of terrorism
  Ronnie Gilbert of The Weavers is under investigation by the FBI - because she belongs to a group that promotes peace.

US intelligence finds instability in Saudi Arabia a threat to US - Seymour M. Hersh
  A link to the New Yorker.

The Chomsky-Hitchens debate continues
  A link to The Nation.

Take action
surveyTHIS, Ontario! - Ontario Health Coalition
  Challenge the Ontario Conservatives to actually listen to what we have to say about our health care system.

Action for peace - Canadian Peace Alliance
  The September 11th Peace Coalition is calling for a Cross Canada Day of Non-Violent Action for Global Peace and Justice for November 17, 2001.

Future of the Left
Don't count Alexa McDonough out. "This is a call to the courageous. Stand up and be counted."
  Her principled stand against the War has struck a chord with Canadians and possibly given the NDP new legs as... (wait for it) ... social conscience.

Enviro news
From Greenpeace: Brazil's Deni stop illegal logging on their land
  Mammoth effort to mark and protect native lands from Malaysian forest giant.
26% solar power an achievable goal

Nuclear fuel waste burial in the Canadian Shield
  Info on Bill C-27 Parliamentary committee hearings from Sierra Club.

Letter of the Week
Larry Katz' personal reflection on September 11 and after

Humour:
Top 10 Effects of the Death of Irony - Rob Cottingham
 

Posted: October 22, 2001
Updated: October 23, 2001