Posted: July 26, 2005

DESERTION A TRADITION by Mick Lowe   American literature full of similar heart-wrenching stories. 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.

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.