Posted: April 06, 2004

Bush sells sizzle in war on terror - Linda McQuaig
  His "Janet Jackson" approach to anti-terrorism can't manage to cover up "naked" opportunism of Iraq invasion.

Consumers
The power to change - Alison Dyer
  New product for homeowners takes guesswork out of energy conservation.

Insurance company profits prove premiums too high - Mike Martin
  For a thousand years, we've had no choice but to pay the pirates or buy insurance against them.
 

Government report on prescription drugs: transparent trials, ban advertisements - Canadian Women's Health Network
  National women's health organization praises report findings, demands government action.
 

Your health and health care

Solutions for medical waiting lists exist - Gordon Guyatt, MD
  Kirby's private-public solution simple, appealing - but wrong.
 

NDP introduces bill calling for breast implant registry - Canadian Women's Health Network
  National registry would monitor procedures, assess risk, coordinate response.

Watershed ways

Clean heat from sawdust and pellet stoves - Ole Hendrickson
  Turning environmental mess and waste into no-fossil-fuel heat.
 

Communities, rights and change
Gordon Campbell blinks; Fraser Institute sulks - Reuel S. Amdur
  Now thousands won't be cut off welfare after all, but tax deductible status of contributions to Fraser Institute still safe.

Can we rein in the corporations?
  Reuel Amdur reviews two books that ask this question: The Corporation and On Value and Values.
 

Commentary
Standing up for Jews, standing up to Ariel Sharon - Ted Schmidt, Catholic New Times
  The "new anti-Semitism" in Europe, possibly in Canada, is in reality anti-Zionism.
 

Media Files
Fog of war still hasn't lifted - Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star
  How the Bush administration manipulated public opinion.

Hot headlines

The end of globalism - John Ralston Saul, Financial Review
  Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades.

Steelworkers save Hamilton plant
  Revised agreement ratified with Delaware Street Capital.

Sour gas: the smell of money - Shefa Siegel, TheTyee.ca
  As government trims its watchdogs, BC's oil and gas boom emits a deadly poison.

Ten things you don't know about terrorism - Loretta Napoleoni, The Progress Report
  Terrorism is such a good business that nobody really wants to eradicate it.

Will privatizers invade our privacy? - Barbara McLintock and Jared Ferrie, TheTyee.ca
  A US firm could win control of BC's medical records - and reveal your secrets to the FBI.

Sixty-nine percent of Canadians oppose government on missile defence - Steve Staples, Polaris Institute
  Can Paul Martin continue to pursue such unpopular policies?

Uncut Fallujah footage reveals another Mogadishu moment - Gwynne Dyer
  At what point will American public decide price is too high, pull the plug on this foreign adventure?
 

The power and the folly - Chris Brazier, New Internationalist
  Unelected, unapproachable, indefensible: the IMF and the World Bank.

The hospital that makes you sicker - Joseph Stiglitz, New Internationalist
  Former World Bank Chief Economist says IMF "free market fundamentalists" working in the interests of Wall Street.

The Pentagon Archipelago - Chris Floyd, counterpunch.org
  Three Britons released after 26 months in "interrogation center".

How to make enemies in Iraq - Naomi Klein, The Nation
  US occupation has unleashed a wave of anti-American rage.

Soldiers of good fortune - Barry Yeoman, motherjones.org
  After Fallujah, MJ revisits Pentagon's increasing reliance on private military companies.

Slave descendants file $1B reparations lawsuit - AP
  Lloyd's of London, FleetBoston and R.J. Reynolds accused of "aiding and abetting the commission of genocide."

Take action!
Defending sanctuary - Citizens for Public Justice
  Churches shelter those afraid for their lives.

Skeptics' inquiry into 9/11 coming to Toronto May 30-June 20 - SIFT
  Donations requested as presidential campaigns get in gear.

Click to give: WaterAid website trades hits for donations
  Project to deliver water and sanitation in Africa.