Posted: March 05, 2002
Philippine president questions US-claimed al Qaeda link to local guerillas - Christopher Johnson
As the terror probe switches to southeast Asia, locals on both sides of the conflict in the southern Philippines sound alarm against rash American action.
What Really Happened on Sept. 11th? - Part Six - Barrie Zwicker
So what's new about the Pentagon spreading false news and why isn't it denounced as lying?
Also: The putdown "conspiracy theorist" has had its day
Response to a doubting reader that it's those who cling to the "official story" that have a lot of explaining to do.
What do you think really happened? Join the debate at the new Straight Goods 9-11 Cyber Survey and Speaker's Corner.
Publisher's welcome:
Bush Doctrine threatens the entire world - Ish Theilheimer
The world is bracing to see how the Bush Doctrine plays out. Prospects are scary.
Community, rights and change
Gap between high- and low-income Canadians grows - Reuel S. Amdur
Over the last 15 years, the rich really did get richer and the poor poorer.
Environment
Kyoto's "clean little secrets" - Peter Tabuns
Canada remains mired in doubt about whether we will ratify Kyoto.
International consortium seeks blank cheque for nuclear fusion megaproject - Toronto Star
Nuclear regulatory agency questions vagueness of $11B ITER proposal.
Northern Exposure:
INCO's risky South Seas venture - Mick Lowe
Proposed $2 billion New Caledonia nickel mine raises huge environmental and political questions.
Consumers:
Debating the privatization of power
Energy deregulation and you - Suzanne Elston
Ontario's electricity market opens this spring. What are the issues?
Enron helped shape Ontario Hydro sell-off - Hampton
Demands for full disclosure of failed energy consortium's role in shaping privatization plan.
Critics dispute Tories' hydro savings claim - Toronto Star
The Power Perplex - Krugman, NY Times
Post-Enron climate makes it possible to revisit California's energy crisis and rethink economic ideology.
Confusion reigns over electricity - Walkom, Toronto Star
With strange power peddlers on every doorstep.
Health care
Romanow Commission offers taste of democracy, but will it be heard?
Straight Goods director Armand Roy reports on participating in crucial health care debate.
Hormone swings affect men too - New Scientist
Not just women suffer from hormonal ups and downs.
New EU food law defines precautionary principle - for food safety.
Debating Zimbabwe
Montreal video undermines official line on Mugabe - so it's spun as a 'smear' - Elliot Anderson
Why did British and Canadian newspapers downplay the easily-accessible facts of the "assassination story"?
RSF urges the Commonwealth to expel Zimbabwe
The African country's policy of arresting, threatening or attacking journalists places it on a world-wide list of "predators of press freedom".
Seniors and Health Care**
Falling still leading cause of injury in Canada
Better safety measures could save expense and pain.
** A partnership with the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations - OCSCO
Books
Saskatchewan doctors' strike of 1962 and battle to launch Medicare at centre stage in new novel
Swimming into Darkness by Gail Helgason
More media files
Journalists are now targets - Robert Fisk, The Independent
Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a reporter.
Journalistic jingoism - Workingforchange
How Daniel Pearl's own newspaper factors into his death.
Danny Pearl died only because he was a Jew - Lysiane Gagnon, Globe and Mail
US closes 'disinformation' unit - BBC News
No more phony news, world is promised - not that there ever was any.
Corporate watch
The Enron-Cheney-Taliban connection - AlterNet
Were Cheney and the White House working closely with the Taliban - on Enron's behalf - up to a few weeks before Sept. 11?
Taking on biotech giants - Larry Lack, rabble
Saskatchewan organic farmers sue two producers of GE canola. A link to rabble.ca - 
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Wired for business or democracy? - Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Corporate interests are conspiring to destroy the Internet's essentially free nature.
Commentary
The notion no one stands for Canada is "American BS", to quote the Great One
Alexa McDonough issues an on-line appeal for Canadians to join her in saying "Darn Right I'll Fight to Save Canada."
Personal testimony of an Israeli Refusenik
"I was raised on two value systems: one was the ethical code and the other the tribal code, and I naïvely believed that the two could coexist," says Asaf Oron.
A Prayer for America - The Nation
US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich prays that America will end its war.
Take action
Watchdogs plan alternative to G-8 summit - Yahoo! News
Human and civil rights advocates to hold their own conference leading up to next summer's G-8 summit of world leaders in Alberta.
Italy Indymedia under attack
After successful demonstrations in Livorno and Rome, Italian state repression has targeted the news backbone of the movement.
The great deception: elusive enemy, endless war - AlterNet
America has been seriously, tragically deceived by the Bush administration's call for an endless war. It's time to strike back.
Love him or hate him
OCAP activist John Clarke's account of a bizzare border-crossing experience will make many activists nervous.
Letters of the week
Dudley George's brother Pierre calls for boycott of Edwards book
Although he drove his fatally-wounded brother to the hospital after the shooting, he says he and other key community members were never consulted in the research.
Calls for info
... on ODSP, Corguard, Vasotec, meat industry privatization, telemarketers, more...
Humour
Top reasons to live in the Northwest Territories
Last week's top ten reasons to live in Canada ignored the territories. An anonymous reader from the Yukon corrects that oversight. And Jeffrey Marsh of SK provides another reason to live in Canada.
(With apologies to readers like Jennifer Deon who were offended by "regional stereotpyes.")
No links to al Q but Bush Doctrine deems Philippines next target
Don't you love the Tough Love crowd?
Community loan funds succeed where banks don't at investing in communities