Posted: September 24, 2002
Updated: September 25, 2002

The dishonesty of Blair's so-called dossier - Robert Fisk
  The one thing these pages of trickery, based on 'probably' and 'if', prove is that half a million Iraqi children, who died as a result of UN sanctions to prevent Iraq building weapons, died for nothing.

News

Globalization of protest holds Inco back in New Caledonia - Mick Lowe
  Massive August demo just the latest in a series of setbacks for Inco in its Asia-Pacific endeavours.
 

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Pregnant aboriginals anonymously tested for HIV - Paul Weinberg
  BC programme stirs up controversy among aboriginal AIDS activists.

Straight Goods interview

What globalization is and isn't - An interview with John McMurtry
  It's ironic that those being labelled as "anti-globalizers" are really those working hardest for global co-operation.
 

War looms in Iraq

Dennis Kucinich's vision of a better USA
  There is another America out there and it neither craves nor needs endless war in the name of peace.

Ramsey Clark letter to UN: Do not support attack on Iraq

Iraq's options: doomed if you do, doomed if you don't - Norman Solomon, Common Dreams
 

The Bush victory in Iraq - Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
  Drums of war have drowned out corporate scandals and failing economy.

Stars tell Blair: stay out of Iraq - The Guardian

Money talks - Blah3.com
  Who benefits most from a war with Iraq? This site says it with a song.

Commentary
Free marketers wimp out on Kyoto challenge and opportunities - Linda McQuaig
  Despite big business' huge, taxpayer-funded PR campaign, polls show the public supports Kyoto action, even in Alberta.

The Straight Goods Cyber Forum The death of "from each to each" taxes - Larry Solway   Lie down with tax cuts, wake up with fees. Join Larry and SG readers at the Straight Goods Cyber Survey and Speakers' Corner and qualify for a prize in the weekly draw.

Neither anti-American nor anti-globalization but... - Ish Theilheimer
  Defeating corporate dominance requires political acts of leadership.
 
 

NDP Leadership On-line Debate Does class matter? And anti-corporate rhetoric   Questions of the week for NDP leadership candidates. What's your view?   Join the NDP leadership forum.

Environment
The environmental media feeding frenzy
  ... has only obscured the important issues and made it impossible to maintain objective analysis - Suzanne Elston.
 

Farmers make declaration
  ... to develop and defend ecological and biodiversity-based agriculture all over the world - "food sovereignty is not negotiable".

Health care

Community clinics a hidden health care success story - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
  Ontario Tories ignore local input on primary-care reform.
 

Waiting for Romanow - Arthur Schafer, CCPA
  Canada's health care values are under fire.

SRI Reports - news about Socially Responsible Investment
Improving corporate governance
  A call for Canadian securities regulators to implement mandatory social and environmental reporting by publicly-listed companies.

Human rights
APEC and the persecution of Falun Gong - Barbara Anello and David Tompkins
  China's blatant disregard for human rights should disqualify Jiang Zemin from attending the upcoming APEC meeting in Mexico.

Media files

Protesters get short shrift in post-9/11 America - Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star
 
 

Protecting your health
The BUG stops here
  A free pest control book that uses safe and far more effective alternatives than poisons.

Hot headlines
British Energy debacle provides lesson for privatization advocates - The Globe and Mail
  Nuclear energy looks good on paper but has a nasty habit of turning into a financial nightmare for taxpayers.

Book describes Allies' germ warfare program - The Globe and Mail
  Britain, Canada and the U.S. ran tests in '40s and '50s.

Radioactive fires threaten Russia and Europe - Pravda
  Widespread forest fires mirror the situation in the whole country: Russia is suffering from embezzlement and criminal chaos.

Take Action
Say "No!" to US attack on international justice
  Sign a petition on Amnesty International's website calling on all governments to refuse to enter into US impunity agreements.

New campaign to provide fresh solutions for Vancouver
  Members of the Coalition of Progressive Electors voted to endorse Larry Campbell for mayor of Vancouver.