Posted: November 05, 2003

Media sugar-coats US motives in Iraq - Linda McQuaig
  What makes these pundits so sure the US has nothing but good intentions in Iraq?
 

Bushwacked by Big Lies - Big money's bald-faced take-over of America - Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books
  Why doesn't the media blow the whistle more often, and why don't more Americans care?
 

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Leaked numbers sound alarm on BC welfare time limits - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
  Thousands will be thrown into the streets under proposed new rules.

Watershed Ways

Wider use of wood heat could help meet Canada's Kyoto target - Ole Hendrickson
  Finland leads the way in heating with wood because of its development of wood-fired district energy systems.

Commentary
America staggers under the leadership of liars - Ish Theilheimer
  Millionaire celebs sell Americans out - are Canadians next?
 

10 reasons to vote in your local municipal election - Mike Martin
  Health, safety, education, neighbourhood, environment are all local issues.
 

Evidence of things unseen: The rise of a new movement - Tom Hayden
  Global opposition to American empire and its role in Iraq fans the flames.

Workplaces
Stronger loonie killing manufacturing jobs - Canadian Labour Congress
  CLC report calls upon Bank of Canada to reduce interest rates to protect the dollar.

US workers fight the Wal-Mart-ization of grocery companies - AlterNet
  Grocery chains cut employee health care to compete with Wal-Mart.

Your health
Researchers call on federal government to create breast implant registry - Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Health
  Health complications from implant surgery common.

Media files
Debunking Bush's complaint that good news from Iraq doesn't get out - FAIR
  The White House's aggressive pursuit of favorable news coverage threatens to squelch reporting on the actual human costs of the occupation.

Rock against media consolidation - LiveDaily
  Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, others on Tell Us the Truth Tour.

Consumer power
Doctors continue antidepressant prescriptions despite warning - CBC News

Auto theft scam uses consumer protection to get keys - CBC News

Notes and letters
Which media get it right, and the Middle East peace movement - Jim Terral, Nelson BC

Hot headlines
$4B in Iraqi oil revenue disappeared - Christian Aid
  US cannot account for funds transferred to agency it controls.

Pentagon keeps US war dead out of sight - Toronto Star
  Bush team doesn't want Americans to see human cost of war.

Rich and poor Colombians unhappy with privatised electricity - Inter Press Service
  Poor can't afford service, rich complain of high costs, power surges.

Hemp, the "new miracle fibre" - The Ottawa Citizen
  Cheap and flexible hemp fibres are making their way into more and more cars - good news for producers of Ontario's homegrown crop.

British Rail maintenance to be put back in state hands - The Independent

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