"Indulging in speculation regarding the identity of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri's real assassins is of little value now. What demands urgent scrutiny is how his murder was intended to play a large part in the remolding of Lebanon's role in the overall Arab-Israeli conflict and the balances of power in the region."

Despite record car sales in Canada, General Motor with the aid of the auto workers union, CAW, has successfully pulled off another corporate welfare scam. Both the Federal and Ontario governments have promised GM a half billion dollars to upgrade it's Canadian plants and operations. It is the biggest P3 in automotive history.

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Alexandra Morton studies fish farms, parasites and their impact on wild salmon. She has just released these notes from her field studies of juvenile pink and chum salmon starting on their journey from freshwater streams to the open ocean. Thanks to an epidemic of sea lice, these tiny fry may not survive to return to their spawning channels.

Bolivian President Carlos Mesa has handed in his resignation, a day after making a surprise announcement that he would quit.

If Cockburn, Tariq Ali, St. Claire, Chavez, MST Brazil/Bolivia, Felipe Quispe, James Petras, Walden Bello, Vandana Shiva, Arhundati Roy, Ken Livingston, Ward Churchill, German Greens/EU Nordic/Left Blocs, Uruguayan Leftists, Chilean Communist Party, Ruben Zamora, Cubans, radical ecologists, other activists and professors would come with all their power to support a clear plan for a new type of participatory socialist - or solidaristic - economy, many people, activists and movements would come together from around the world to promote this vision.

"This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed."

"...Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of `Disabled Vets' means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!" The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.

"Turkish police have detained dozens of protesters after using pepper spray, batons and boots to break up a demonstration by women's rights supporters."

"One year ago, seven East Vancouver residents were brutally beaten by members of the Vancouver Police. Adding insult to substantive injury, the assaulted individuals were then slapped with trumped-up charges that they now face in court. The trial of the 'Hastings Seven' (also known as the 'Waldorf 7') is scheduled for April 13-22 and they need your help."

Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber Defend the Defenseless

John Gibson of FOX Calls Canada Dumb.

Quissling Canadian Ezra Levant Agrees.

"In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community. It is quite ironic that on Feb. 28 of this year, the State Department of the United States once again posed as the 'the world human rights police' and released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004. As in previous years, the reports pointed fingers at human rights situation in more than
190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the US misdeeds in this field. Therefore, the world people have to probe the human rights record behind the Statue of Liberty in the United States," said the report.

"Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said that according to Iraqi Health Department's reports US soldiers used nerve and mustard gas during the Felluce
(Fallujah) operation."

"More than 70 environmental, consumer, farmer, human
rights groups and unions from six Central American and Caribbean countries held simultaneous press conferences today to denounce the presence of unauthorized genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food aid distributed by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), and in commercial imports of food
originating mostly from the United States."

"Evidence continues to mount of the United
Nation's complicity in an on-going campaign by the US-installed government of Gerard Latortue to terrorize and exterminate
sympathizers of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's political party
known as Lavalas. Despite detailed documentation of innumerable
massacres committed by the Police Nationale de Haiti (PNH) over the
last five months, the UN insisted in a new report released on
February 25 that "the general security environment across Haiti has
improved." Any sensible observer of Haiti must ask, "improved for
whom?" The recent attack by the PNH against unarmed demonstrators
demanding Aristide's return on February 28 destroyed the credibility
of several such statements made recently by the UN in Haiti and
exposed the duplicitous role of their forces in propping up an unpopular regime."

On March 2, 2005, John Graham's legal defense successfully filed an appeal to counter his approved extradition. His appeal date is set for November 7, 2005, in Vancouver Canada. From now until that date, Graham will be able to stay at his daughters' house, and is required to report a parole officer twice weekly. This is a victory, as previously, he had to live with a friend whom signed a $10,000 waiver to get him released from prison. He was also required to report to the Vancouver City Police everyday.

"When Tahltan elders concerned about resource development in their area went looking for Chief Jerry Asp, they didn't expect to be kept waiting so long.

But now, more than a month after they walked into the band offices in Telegraph Creek, they say they are still waiting for Mr. Asp and information on the progress of proposals for mines in a region claimed by the Tahltan in northwestern British Columbia."