Posted: January 22, 2002

Media files
Barrie Zwicker wants to know:
  - What really happened on Sept. 11th? - Part 1. Too many loose ends call for the toughest kind of media questions but they're not being asked ... yet.
  - What's the true historic role of staged-for-media events?. The Viet Nam War and Desert Storm were propelled by faked or non-existent events. What about that suspicious munitions ship found by the Israelis?

Call for CanWest to restore editorial peace and cease its attack on divergent opinions - The Newspaper Guild of Canada/CWA

Afghanistan etc.
The biggest bombshell of the war...
  ... could be what former former US diplomatic staffer Michael Springman is saying about CIA links with the terrorist attacks on September 11.

Northern Alliance warlords charged with extorting, settling scores by calling in US air strikes - Chris Johnson
  Afghani businessman says warlord told the US army his family had ties to the al-Queda, resulting in a bombing attack.

The Straight Goods Cyber Forum with Larry Solway The economy's four-wheeled golden shackle   We have let ourselves be made victims and now find ourselves trapped by an economic reality: cars create jobs. Cars and jobs, and cars to get to jobs: How far into the future will our economic reliance on fossil-burners go? Join the Straight Goods Cyber Forum with your views. Tell us how we should all get from A to B. Take the Straight Goods Cyber Survey. What would you replace the car, that creator of jobs, wealth, and personal independence with? ... and qualify for a prize in the weekly Straight Goods draw.

Books
McQuaig eats it all - with style - Mel Watkins
  New book critiques globalization, spells out how an alternative to our economy might look, and even makes economics interesting and understandable.

From the Publisher

BC's Black Thursday, Walkerton, Xenophobes and Patriotism - Ish Theilheimer
 
 

Ethics and Government

The ethics shuffle - Aaron Freeman
  Spring cleaning came early for the federal cabinet. But it's unlikely to alter the pattern of ethical lapses that the Liberals have fallen into.
 

Walkerton report online
  The results of the Walkerton Commission of Inquiry's investigation.

Seniors and Health Care
Eligibility changes `medicalize' home care - Colleen Fuller
  Increased demanded for acute care in the home - once taken care of by hospitals - means less money to help patients with long-term needs.

Your health

By the time teen smokers think about quitting, they're hooked - Suzanne Elston
 
 

The end of pregnancy - Common Dreams
  Within a generation, there will probably be mass use of artifical wombs to grow babies, says Jeremy Rifkin.

FDA keeps dangers of xenotransplantation secret
  The Campaign for Responsible Transplantation says the FDA is witholding documents on side-effects and deaths.

Two new reports find organic more nutritious
 
 

Environment
Energy saving tips for renters - The Energy Action Council of Toronto
  Top ten tips for apartment dwellers.

The concrete tsunami - MetroFarm
  Can farming survive the loss of its best land to development?

U.S. pressures Europe to drop GMO labeling rules - Environment News Service

Canadian company sues to prove hemp not pot - Environment News Service
 
 

World's largest wind farm OK'ed for Irish Sea - Environment News Service
 
 

BC through the wormhole*
(*A term much used in Star Trek - a wormhole takes you into a new reality)
Details of BC government layoffs released - MyBC.com
  BC to lay off 3,300 employees this year and cut 11,700 public service jobs within three years. Service cuts equal total of tax cuts - $2+ billion.

Dying for compassion - End Legislated Poverty
  The BC Liberal government has capped the number of allowable treatments to those most in need of medical services.

You're a mean one, Mr. Campbell - Norman Spector, Globe and Mail
  Even former Mulroneyites blanch at impact of BC cuts.

Taking liberties
War on terror is 'leading to civil rights abuses'
  Governments may be using the war against terror in Afghanistan as an excuse to lower their own standards on civil liberties - Human Rights Watch.

Trading democracy - AlterNet
  In a new PBS special, Bill Moyers exposes what may be the pinnacle of global corporate malfeasance - a law that penalizes governments for trying to protect their citizens.

Take action
We don't want no ivy league - Adam Davidson Harden
  The tuition de-regulation protest song.

Catch a Tory by the tail!
  A mini-action kit that gives you the opportunity to tell Ontario's Tories what you really think of them.

Legally high - AlterNet
  It may be time to call off the search for the perfect legal drug.