Posted: October 08, 2002
Updated: October 12, 2002
Burma regime still offers "licence to rape" despite report denials - Penny Sanger
Villagers intimidated into denying ongoing atrocities documented in June report, say Shan Women activists in Canada for one-day conference.
Movement pushes Canadian mining company Ivanhoe to get out of Burma
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Plan to attend the
Straight Goods Media Panel
Stories Media Blew in 2002
Saturday, November 9 in Toronto
with featured panelists
John Miller (Ryerson), Antonia Zerbisias (Star),
Rick Salutin (Globe), Kirk LaPointe (former CTV exec)
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Iraq crisis
Iraqi crisis made in USA - Reuel S. Amdur
The real weapons threat comes from Indian subcontinent, not Iraq.
Michael Moore to US Democrats: "You're Either With Us Or You're Fired."
On-line petition urges: Don't cave to Bush's war.
Military Socialists
Lifelong war resister David McReynolds decries the long history of intellectuals and socialists who argue in favour of military aggression.
U.S threatens war-weary, exhausted Iraqis - writes Iraqi Canadian student Noosa Al-Sarraj
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Consumer forum on phone services
 Sorry for the convenience!
Join the Straight Goods Consumer Forum and tell other readers what you've experienced and how you fight back. Last week's responses included one from a former staffer at the Sympatico support desk. At one point, when the company removed a service that many customers had found worthwhile, he was instructed to tell them Sorry for the convenience.
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Commentary
Chrétien listens to public and defies powerful interests in Throne speech - Linda McQuaig
Regardless of motive, PM wise to ignore military and corporate lobby in favour of health, education and housing.
Missing Vancouver women victims of public policy - Libby Davies
The criminalization of drug users and sex workers places them at greater and greater risk.
Community, Rights and Change Shift workers have more difficulties in relationships - Reuel S. Amdur
StatsCan study of 50,000 shift workers details challenges.
Health Care
Lots of reasons to think twice about cancer screening - Dr. Gordon Guyatt
Scans are costly and unpredictable.
Why having a national home care program is a women's issue - Jean Ann Lowry
Environment
Arms length government organizations positive for Ontario's environment, citizens - Suzanne Elston
And kudos to the uncomprising Gord Miller.
The environment is a top ten industry in Canada - Gary Gallon
But industry's voice is weak and potential unrecognized.
Biotech companies give appearance of softening to activist demands in new scheme to marry agribusiness with spy technology - CorpWatch
Accounting scandal at Mother Earth, Inc. - Salon
Put that rainforest on your spreadsheet and suddenly the global economy looks different by trillions of dollars.
Media Files
Duct-tape artists recreate 55-foot Manitoba Hydro billboard - Will Braun
Uninvited artists tell utility to clean up the dam mess in Cree homeland.
'Made in Canada' pollution plan
A US PR firm launches an alternative "Made in Canada" anti-Kyoto campaign.
Robert Fisk in the Independent
Roll call of 322 children killed in the intifada - Robert Fisk, The Independent
Even the very young now considered 'fair game' by both sides.
Fisk: How the League of Nations ended up as debris
A history lesson on how the big countries' self- serving policies allowed fascism to grow in Europe.
Fisk: NATO used old trick when it made Milosevic an offer he could only refuse
Saddam faces the same old trap.
What happened...?
Why was FBI Special Agent John O'Neill shunned?
PBS examines the extraordinary the ignored agent who went private and died in the WTC, raising troubling questions about what the US government knew before 9/11.
Hot headlines
America's newest weapons - blinding lasers - In These Times
Take Action
Eves government to introduced privately financed hospitals - Kingston Health Coalition
Join the campaign against for-profit healthcare in Ontario.
Why we must invade Iraq
Cartoonist Mark Fiore explains all.
Self-serving logic of globalization
