By ANANYA MUKHERJEE-REED - February 5-7, 2010

8.5 percent Canadians are currently unemployed. For some time now, ‘employed’ Canadians have been facing a high degree of economic insecurity. Inequality is high and growing...Meanwhile, ordinary Canadians are visiting food banks in record numbers...Some 20 percent of food bank users are employed - but are unable to meet basic needs with their income.

By TODD GORDON and JEFFREY R. WEBBER - February 5-7, 2010

The new Lobo regime and the golpista press are presenting the transfer of power as a return to democracy and thus an end to the coup. Lobo, they claim, marks a new beginning for a democratic Honduras under a new government of national reconciliation. Unsurprisingly, this position is being echoed by U.S. and Canadian imperialism. These same powers supported the coup, their claims to the contrary nothwithstanding.

By Charlie Smith - February 3, 2010

It's obvious why the RCMP are putting on a big show for the journalists. It's known as "target hardening"--sending a message to potential terrorists and activists that disrupting the Winter Games is not worth the effort because their efforts are doomed to fail...My biggest concern isn't the terrorists. It's the police.

Five years of savage torture has destroyed her humanity.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - February 8, 2010

The wanton slaughter of wildlife for the fun of killing creates hostility toward firearms among the general public...Many Americans have an aversion to people who get their jollies by murdering animals. Banning guns becomes a way to protect wildlife...We need the Second Amendment for our own protection and for our constitutional rights...An armed population is not compatible with the police state that President Bush and the Republicans created and that President Obama and the Democrats have ratified.

par Federico Fuentes - 2 décembre 2009

Venezuela lance l'appelle pour tenir le 5ieme internationale, pour la construction "d'un socailisme du 21 siecle".

By Haroon Siddiqui - February 07, 2010

Canadians worried about what Stephen Harper might do if he were to have a majority should look at what he's doing to Canada's leading human rights agency...To recap the scandal at Montreal-based Rights and Democracy...[Stephen Harper's] allies on its board hound its president, Remy Beauregard, for months. On Jan. 7, they vote to repudiate three small grants to NGOs monitoring human rights violations by both Israel and the Palestinians.

For Immediate Release – Saturday, February 6, 2010

Martin Macias Jr., an independent media reporter from Chicago traveling to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC, has been rejected by Canadian border agents and held without outside contact for at least 7 hours...Macias...was a leading member of No Games Chicago - which successfully opposed Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.