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Posted: September 13, 2006
"WAR ON TERROR" BACKFIRES by Linda McQuaig
More angry young men today than five years ago.
 WELFARE STUDY SHOWS NEED FOR GUARANTEED INCOME by Hugh Segal, special to the Toronto Star
1.7 million Canadians are forced to rely on welfare, including 500,000 children.
BOMB-HAMMERING CLOWNS ON TRIAL by Bill Quigley
Priest and two veterans face US federal jury.
SKIMPING ON DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS by Cathy Crowe
Promised federal cheques just did not arrive.
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 Editorial
SMALL-D DEMOCRATS NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO PERSUADE by Ish Theilheimer
We know how the Right frames its beliefs — how does the Left?
FLAT DADDY by John Chuckman
Life-sized cardboard cut-outs put soldiers in the picture at family events.
 9/11 COMMISSION WHITEWASH by Ivan Eland
Co-Chairs admit they avoided analyzing the cause of the attacks.
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World beat
COUNCIL OF EUROPE RESPONDS TO BUSH REVELATIONS from Radio Free Europe
Investigators to continue inquiry into secret CIA prisons.
STARVING AFGHANS TURN TO TALIBAN from The Senlis Council
Frontline now cuts half-way through Afghanistan — extreme poverty, drought and hundreds of thousands starving in south.
 THE LATINS GO NUCLEAR by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Brazil, Argentina have relaunched nuclear energy programs.
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Gordon's corner
RE-BRANDING GOVERNMENT by Charles Gordon
"New Government" demonstrates the slapstick of thought control.
 Faith speaks
SOCIAL REPENTANCE by Rabbi Michael Lerner
Rosh Hashanah should inspire collective reflection on how to turn things around.
Science matters
SAVING ROY'S LAKE by David Suzuki
Canadian cottage country depends on conservation.
 Canadian Politics
WAR FOR OPIUM by Bill Tieleman
Afghanistan war fuels BC heroin trade.
 THE FALLING BIRTH RATE by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor
Society is not delivering parent-friendly conditions.
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WAR PROFITEERING
Halliburton/KBR has US government contracts in Iraq worth up to $18 billion, including a single no-bid contract known as "Restore Iraqi Oil" (RIO), which has an estimated worth of $7 billion. Along with a few other contractors, Halliburton offers US workers six-figure salaries ("$144,000 for nine months' work," says one) to work in the Iraqi war zones. In effect, the contractors are doing military work, except without training, weapons, armour or safety equipment. "Not even a map," says one participant in this film. IRAQ FOR SALE looks like a riveting documentary that shows the human cost of war profiteering.
iraqforsale.org
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10 REASONS TO VOTE IN UPCOMING ONTARIO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS by Mike Martin
Health, safety, education, neighbourhood, environment are all local issues.
THE DUST AT GROUND ZERO by Katie Couric, for cbsnews.com
First responders' working lives cut short by working at World Trade Centre site — Workers' Comp denied.
Consumers
SAVE THE INTERNET from Save the Internet.com
"Net Neutrality" means ISPs can't slow or block rivals.
Hot headlines
 THE TORY TIES OF THE GREEN PARTY'S NEW LEADER by Larry Zolf, CBC News Online
Elizabeth May's ties to Red Tory Myra Spivak add a new dynamic.
BACK TO THE DINOSAUR ERA by Jeremy Lovell, Reuters
Global warming could lead to extinction of 10 to 50 percent of all species.
 BUSH DEFENDS TORTURE by Joanne Mariner
"Alternative set of interrogation procedures" euphemism doesn't fool anyone.
Take action!
SEND A ZUCCHINI TO GORDON O'CONNOR by Matthew Behrens
Afghanistan needs food, not bombs.
 Feedback from our readers
THE GREENS' NEW LEADER RESPONDS from Elizabeth May, in Ottawa, ON
"The fact is that I resigned on principle from Mulroney's government in 1988."
Humour
WHAT SOME PEOPLE WILL EAT from the Internet
And what they think.
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