I had dinner with Stephen Lewis last night, me and 400 other folk who gathered to support development projects in Uganda at a dinner sponsored by Friends of Uganda, a Winnipeg-based group of individuals and organizations with strong ties to Uganda. Lewis is well known in Canada and abroad for his work on behalf of [...]
“A week is a long time in politics” is the popular aphorism that causes pundits to nod sagely and political operatives to reach deeper into their bag of tricks for manipulating the short attention spans and even shorter memories of the electorate. Ample evidence demonstrates that political bloggers of all stripes are not immune. Evidently, [...]
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By Carl Boggs, Counterpunch, Oct. 18, 2008 The arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in July 2008 for war crimes allegedly committed in the 1990s took the Western (especially United States) media by storm, a case that was upheld as a watershed moment in the struggle for global justice. Demonized by the Western [...]
Well, our election’s over folks, so let’s get back to what’s really important – laughing at Americans. Well, not all Americans. Not even red state Americans. Not even Obama and McCain, tripping over each other to be the most warlike. Not even Sarah Palin. No, let’s just take a moment to chuckle at the fantasies [...]
We live in a country where 9.97 percent of the popular vote can translate into 50 seats in Parliament (Bloc Québécois) and 6.8 percent gives you zilch (Greens). The table below illustrates how our electoral system disproportionately allocates seats. (Thanks to Challenging the Commonplace for the table.) A rational observer has to ask why the [...]
Peace Alliance Winnipeg will be holding a rally, march and public forum on Oct. 18, 2008 in Winnipeg. These events are part of a Canada-wide series of actions to demonstrate Canadian opposition to the war in Afghanistan and Canada’s combat role in it. Winnipeg Events Rally: 2:15 p.m. at Vimy Ridge Park (bounded by Portage [...]
Workers at the Winnipeg Free Press went on strike at noon on Monday. WAYNE GLOWACKI/freepressonstrike.com A thousand employees of the Winnipeg Free Press struck, yesterday, over wages, pensions and working conditions. They will tell their story at http://www.fresspressonstrike.com and provide a local-news alternative to their employer. Their lead story chronicles the beating their boss is [...]
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