Posted: December 09, 2003

INCOMING: high-end tax cuts in the name of deficit reduction - Linda McQuaig
  Martin's bean-counter approach is dull and dangerous because of what it masks.

Workplaces
Ousting Bush will be uphill struggle for American labour - Mike Martin
  Massive membership layoffs and internal disagreements leave AFL-CIO with fewer election resources and no agreed-upon candidate.

Peruvian indie documentary wins awards in Spain
  Choropampa, The Price of Gold depicts the struggles of villagers in the mountains of Peru for health care and justice after a devastating mercury spill by a US-owned gold mine.

Communities, rights and change

Smokers' cafés a next step? - Reuel S. Amdur
  How can we strike a reasonable balance on the issue of smoking (tobacco and pot)?
 

SRI Reports - news about Socially Responsible Investment
Making a killing
  How and why corporations use armed force to do business - an interview with researcher Madelaine Drohan.

Comment
Let's end Ontario's nuclear power age - David H. Martin and Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Sierra Club of Canada
  Germany has seen the light, and it's not nuclear powered. So what's the solution for Ontario?

The soldiers at my front door - John Dear, S. J.
  A priest in New Mexico faces intimadation from the militia over his anti-war stance.

Hot headlines
Russian democracy wilts from the grassroots - Gwynne Dyer, New Zealand Herald
  Putin's message is that Russia needs to be led by a strong man who gives orders and is obeyed.

Bring Halliburton Home - Naomi Klein, The Nation
  Any movement serious about Iraqi self-determination must call not only for an end to Iraq's military occupation, but to its economic colonization as well.

Naked defiance in rural BC - by Bill Hornem, TheTyee.ca
  Hinterland activists are using art, satire and theatre to protest Liberals' cuts.

Ordinary lad - or jihad conscript? - Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star
  Abdurahman Khadr's story teaches Canada a lesson in perspective.

Iraqis deny US accounts of fierce fight with 'guerrillas' - Phil Reeves, The Independent
  Iraqi body count inflated for PR.

Report traces cost of racial profiles
  Goes far beyond policing in its impacts.

LEDs signal energy revolution - Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post
  Big energy gains come from pint-sized innovations like LEDs, which often can save upwards of 90% of the energy required by conventional lighting methods.

Depleted uranium in bunker bombs - Robert James Parsons, Le Monde Diplomatique
  America's big dirty secret.

The chemical industry's Bhopal legacy - Gary Cohen, AlterNet
  In the 19 years since the disaster that killed 5,000 people, we have continued to learn more about the dark side of the 'chemical revolution.'

Federal NDP inching past conservatives in polls - Kim Lunman, Globe and Mail
  The NDP, under new Leader Jack Layton, is emerging as a second-place rival to the Liberals.

A plague of bioweapons - Christopher Scheer, AlterNet
  Welcome to the confounding, illogical and sometimes deadly world of biological weapons, where almost nothing is ever black and white.

Sunset of the Sally Ann - Susanne Shaw, rabble.ca
  Donations to the Sally Ann have dwindled, and the Army is closing many doors on the destitute all over.

Letters
Overlooked successes in article on labour's use of Internet - Collin Gribbons, Toronto
  What about Labourstart and Web Networks, for instance?

Gun control, argument and noise - Tom Trottier

Complacent Canadians forfeit their freedom - Henry Makow, Ph.D.
"Terrorism" ploy to create police state.

Take action
Fax your opposition to Canadian involvement in missile defence - ceasefire.ca
  Join the thousands who have sent messages directly to the Prime Minister asking him to not join the United States' national missile defence system.