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Posted: July 26, 2005
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DESERTION A TRADITION by Mick Lowe
American literature full of similar heart-wrenching stories.
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ZOMBIES IN THE FOG OF WAR by Joshua Key
Tricked into enlisting, US soldier found most soldiers would rather self-mutilate than serve in Iraq.
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HELD WITHOUT CHARGES by Linda McQuaig
CSIS should have to produce its evidence against Hassan Almrei.
FOOD FOR ALL by Lester R Brown
If we're not careful, the world could face serious food shortages in a few years.
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 Canadian Politics
NURSELINE BIDDER UNDER INVESTIGATION by Bill Tieleman
BC government plans to outsource health hotline involve US company suspected of violating federal health care laws.
MISSILE DEFENSE AND NORAD by Richard Sanders
Canada requested a role in missile defense, while publicly denying we would participate.
Communities, rights and change
FOOD MONEY by Reuel S Amdur
How Ontario welfare workers should respond to claimants' requests for special diet allowance.
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War resisters? Union split? UN anniversary?
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 Workplaces
US UNIONS BATTLE by Mike Martin
Dissention within AFL-CIO will have few implications for Canadian unions.
YOUTH AT RISK Part two of a three-part series on Risks in the Workplace, by Joanne MacDonald
Young workers have higher injury, fatality rates in the workplace.
LABOUR STANDARDS REVIEW from the Ministry of Labour and Housing
Public consultations will be held this fall for the first review of federal labour standards since 1985.
Watershed ways
WHAT SMOKEY FORGOT by Ole Hendrickson
Forest fires serve an important ecological purpose.
Consumers
BRAND NAMES VS STORE BRANDS from consumerreports.org
OTC remedies usually the same. Other products might not be. How to choose.
 Media files
BLOGGER'S MANUAL by Susannah Gardner, for Online Journalism Review
Everything you need to know about blogging, including glossary and software options.
NEW STONES ALBUM TO ATTACK BUSH by Paul Cashmere, for Undercover.com
Lyrics question attack on Iraq, Condoleezza Rice's abilities.
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GLOBAL NEWS PORTAL
A plain table with photos fronts an immense news portal that calls itself the World News Network. This staggeringly comprehensive news site not only offers links to news gatherers around the world, it also hosts pages such as "mafiapost.com", "rudegirls.com" and "socialanalyst.com" — news gathering from a fairly progressive perspective. For example, www.womendaily.com carries several reports that the new Iraq constitution might remove some existing women's rights. Here are masses of headlines that you won't see in most dailies. Click on WN Society for human rights and civil rights news.
www.worldnews.com
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Hot headlines
AFL-CIO FEUD CRESTS AT CONVENTION by the Associated Press, Chicago IL
US organized labor at crossroads this week.
 THE CHAUFFEUR'S DILEMMA by Arlie Hochschild, for American Prospect magazine
Why do about half of lower- and middle-income Americans approve of tax cuts that favour the rich?
UNITED NATIONS ANNIVERSARY by Gwynne Dyer
UN has achieved its purposes by preventing another great war.
1000 WOMEN FOR NOBEL? by Kamla Bhasin, for India Together
Worldwide organization nominates 1000 Women for Peace Prize.
THE UN WON WORLD WAR II by Dan Plesch, for The Guardian
Nazis in fact surrendered to the "United Nations", not to the US or Allies.
LOW-ENERGY COOL by Jessica Ravitz, for The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah teens invent environmentally friendly air conditioner.
Take action!
PROTEST WAL-MART CHILD LABOUR from America's Union Movement (ALF-CIO)
Write CEO Lee Scott to say you won't buy school supplies from Wal-Mart.
Feedback from our readers
RADON GAS from Cindy Deschene, in Port Hope ON
Reader questions "unconditional offer" on house.
Humour
THE GOOD BOOK SAYS...
It's all in the interpretation.
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