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Your health
Is medicalization a threat to health? - Gordon Guyatt, MD
By focusing on avoiding aging and unpleasantness, are we alienating ourselves from a basic part of what it means to be human?
Health cuts worsen SARS spread - Andy Lehrer
Perpetual crisis has become the norm, making Ontario's health care system incapable of dealing with a major health emergency.
Media files
Rosy future for online journalism - dotJournalism
Where is the outrage over activist's death? - Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star
Bad enough that Rachel Corrie was crushed to death, but now she is being buried again, a victim of media neglect and Blogistani justice.
Rumsfeld, Al-Sahaf and Ruddock win Orwell Awards
Associated Press puts violent words in Iraqi protesters' mouths - Memory Hole
"We'll kick you out" changed to "We'll kill you".
Consumers
Power deregulation hits Albertans where it hurts - Deborah Yedlin, The Globe and Mail
Consumers in rural Alberta have been getting a rather expensive lesson in free-market economics, and they are not happy about it.
Hot headlines
America stumbling along in Iraq - Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star
America was good at conquering Iraq, but is not good at governing it and may prove worse at shaping its future.
Liberation, one month on - Phil Reeves, The Independent
Chaos on the streets, cholera in the city and killings in broad daylight.
Impeach Bush - Ramsey Clark
Your vote to impeach reminds Americans that the Constitution provides the means for removing an Imperial President and officials who commit high crimes.
Farewell to a friend and a comrade in arms - Walter Susulu - Nelson Mandela
By ancestry, I was born to rule. Sisulu helped me understand my real vocation to be a servant of the people.
"The Lies Are Brilliantly Crafted" - Greg Palast with Marc Ash, t r u t h o u t
Someone had to write a book with the facts that dare not speak their name in America - and Palast's book is #5 on the NY Times bestseller list.
Rolling back the 20th century - William Greider, The Nation
George W. Bush, properly understood, represents the third and most powerful wave in the right's long-running assault on the governing order created by twentieth-century liberalism.
Burundi may soon bear witness to another African genocide - Gwynne Dyer, The Salt Lake Tribune
The most frustrating thing about it is that you can't even pin the blame for it on some monster of wickedness. It's just the situation.
September 11 showdown - Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, via Truthout
Will the White House block a terror panel's access to critical documents?
Mass expulsion of legal Black and Hispanic voters "elected" Bush in Florida - Martin Luther King III and Greg Palast, Baltimore Sun
Jim Crow revived in cyberspace.
Fun with Sue - SG's Director of Fun
Cliches of the day - forwarded by SG Editor of Fun Sue
Some may justify homicide.
Expect more nuclear pep-talk
