This agreement will 'temporarily' bind Canadian municipal and provincial governments to guarantee U.S.A companies access to most Canadian municipal and provincial infrastructure spending projects until Sept. 2011. It will also permanently bind the Canadian Provincial Governments to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement...The current canadian conservative government has an agenda to reduce the role of Government in Canada, and supports private economic growth at the expense of the Canadian economy and the Canadian public.

By MICHAEL NEUMANN - October 29, 2009

Anti-semites have flocked to criticism of Israel precisely because criticism of Israel is so amply justified...[C]riticizing Israel is not only correct, it's the right thing to do. The more-than-overwhelming majority of those who criticize Israel are genuine humanitarians, genuine enemies of oppression and ethnic nationalism, genuine fighters for justice. The more obvious this has become, the more anti-semites get on board.

By STAN GOFF - February 1, 2010

The Joint Special Operations Command...carries with it a mystique. The press, JSOC's promoters and its critics, as well as the entertainment media, have all contributed to its mystique...Hollywood, pulp fiction, television drama, infotainment "news," and military-veteran boosterism all contribute to the vast ignorance of military matters, by overdramatizing military life and military operations, and by idealizing it.

By Chris Hedges - Jan. 24, 2010

We find our collective identity in...national myths...But the America we celebrate is an illusion. It does not exist. Our government and judiciary have no real sovereignty. Our press provides diversion, not information. Our organs of security and power keep us as domesticated and as fearful as most Iraqis...[A] revolutionary force, best described as inverted totalitarianism, is plunging us into a state of neo-feudalism, perpetual war and severe repression.

By Paul Street - January 25, 2010

"What makes Americans so stupid and reactionary? The Republicans advanced the free market ideology that caused the economic meltdown...and cling to a religious zealotry that works against...the interests of ordinary Americans. Why would they be having a comeback?"...[Such] things are being asked and said in elite liberal circles...in the U.S. The arrogant "tsk tsk"-ing about "stupid" and "reactionary" ordinary Americans is quite audible from privileged academic Democrats...Yes, worried liberals...the Republican comeback is real.

After this year's performance, highlighted by an irresponsible nuclear trade pact with India, efforts to not hold companies like Blackfire accountable for their crimes, a truly bed-wetting performance at the Copenhagen Climate summit, and a refusal to be accountable on Afghan torture allegations, the Prince of Prorogue Steve Harper will have a lot to answer for in the new year.

By Cnaan Liphshiz - 18/06/2009

Israel will be a major part of Geert Wilders' next film on Islam, the rightist Dutch legislator said last week in an interview for Haaretz. He praised Avigdor Lieberman, observing "similarities" between Yisrael Beiteinu and the Party for Freedom - a small movement which has grown to become Holland's second most popular.

By BRENDA NORRELL - December 30, 2009

...[W]hat of the hate crimes on the US/Mexico border, where white Border Patrol agents kill people of color in cold blood?...Why is it not a hate crime when white Border Patrol agents and white police officers beat and murder Tohono O'odham, and other people of color, on the back roads near the US/Mexico border?...Why is it not a hate crime when...Indian women, children and elderly go to bed cold, sick and hungry...ignored by the United States and their own elected councils?

No government neglects to make a point of demanding the trust of its citizens and the entire world in the capacities of its power. A loss of power through the failure of its economic basis is simply not allowed to occur. In order to avoid this, they will put their power to use — one can bet on this anyway.

November 6, 2009 - Media Lens

...[O]ne consequence of the poppy campaign is to elicit selective sympathy. It focuses our grief on one specific group of casualties – no surprise, our own. Meanwhile the victims of our invasions slip further from view, perhaps further despised for bringing this tragedy upon 'our boys'...It’s Vietnam all over again. You rain hell down on civilian populations and then paint the whole thing as a tragedy sustained by your own side.

By M. SHAHID ALAM - October 28, 2009

The history of Zionism is history gone wrong...The tragedy for the Palestinians is obvious, although, blinded by racism and the Zionist bias of their media, Westerners only recently have begun to see this tragedy for what it is. It has been a tragedy for the Jewish people too, who were co-opted by the Zionists to place their energy, their talent and their hopes on a project they should never have undertaken, and whose only chance of success lay in obliterating the hopes of another people.

By JOHN V. WHITBECK - October 19, 2009

"In the aftermath of the liquidation by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews during World War II, the United States, Australia and Canada, brushing aside Arab pleas to treat displaced Jews as a challenge for the whole world, refused to relax their immigration restrictions, thereby ensuring that the great majority of them poured into Palestine, even though many would have preferred to settle elsewhere....[A]nti-Semitism would become Zionism's greatest ally."

By MICHAEL NEUMANN - October 14, 2009

In April of this year I was invited by the Canada- Palestine Parliamentary Association to speak at one of their meetings...[T]he meeting was [subsequently] "postponed" (permanently)...[The] director of communications for Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, had the following to say: "In a free country like Canada, Mr. Neumann has the right to air his noxious views...Neumann's farrago of cant, conspiracy theory and hate are completely repugnant to our government, and we make no apology for saying so"...Here is the alleged farago of cant, conspiracy theory and hate...Readers may judge for themselves whether the allegations have merit.

By JONATHAN COOK - October 7, 2009

Tension over control of the Haram al Sharif compound of mosques in Jerusalem’s Old City has reached a pitch unseen since clashes at the site sparked the second intifada nine years ago...Ten days of intermittently bloody clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem culminated yesterday in warnings by Palestinian officials that Israel was “sparking a fire” in the city.