By Stephen Scheinberg - Outlook: Canada’s Progressive Jewish Magazine

When a recording was produced of [Rev. John] Hagee stating that God had sent Adolph Hitler to help the Jews reach the Promised Land, this proved too much for [Republican Presidential candidate John] McCain to stomach. Yet here in Canada, B’nai Brith, led by Frank Dimant, carries on an active association with Hagee’s close Canadian associates, who are cut from the same clerical cloth. Their alliance is based on a common outlook of what they believe is good for Israel and to a lesser extent, on a common social conservative political agenda linking them to the Conservative Party.

Originally from Counterpunch

I didn't see it coming. After 25 years of writing American Indian news, I didn't really expect to be blackballed and censored out of the business. But, then again, any journalist writing serious news in the United States should expect to be censored. In Indian country news, there are also hush words, words to be used sparingly, if at all.

By Dave Zirin - July 22, 2008

In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security, I am "Dave Z."...The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted nearly 300 hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and Maryland's use of death row..."Homeland Security" picked on the wrong sports writer. They also picked on the wrong group of activists. We will not be silenced.

By Gideon Levy - July, 15 2008

...[T]hey said there is no comparison: for them the Israeli occupation regime is worse than anything they knew under (South African) apartheid. This week, 21 human rights activists from South Africa visited Israel. Among them were members of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress; at least one of them took part in the armed struggle and at least two were jailed.

By KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY - July 11, 2008

Just as Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign tried to reassure whites that he wasn't too cozy with blacks by denouncing a rapper, Obama [is] appealing to whites by condemning his own...Obama’s "bash the black man" game...passes on one of the lowest of all the smears and stereotypes: the lie that black men have no morals. It reinforces the white supremacists’ notion of blacks as irresponsible, overly sexual beasts; a notion that far too many black folk as well as white unwittingly buy into.

By Roger Annis - July, 12 2008

The triennial convention of the Canadian Labour Congress held in Toronto from May 26 to 30 revealed the positive changes that have edged their way into the labour movement in recent years. It also showed the weighty obstacles that stand in the way of the organization's transformation into a more militant, fighting force on behalf of the working class...The overarching conclusion to draw from the convention is the growing gap between worsening economic, social and political conditions faced by workers today in Canada and the world, on the one hand, and the still-limited will and capacity of trade unions to fight for effective improvements in these conditions.

CBC News - Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist known for his support of the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terror, has subjected himself to waterboarding...The experience left Hitchens with no doubts. The August issue of Vanity Fair will carry his article titled "Believe Me, It's Torture."

Seattle's Wooden Boat Center offers an amazing wealth of skill sharing, story telling, and maritime history. The WBC offers not only "float in" movies, like drive ins movies with cars, but with boats, but they also offer a trade system where you can volunteer and trade those hours for free sailing lessons, free sailboat rentals, etc. The WBC also has wooden boat building classes and even has a family sailboat building class where families make their own boats...

Every four years or so the hen house at Lake Pottahwuattabe hosts an
open house for its stockholders' annual general meeting.
One year some animal rights' activists disrupted the proceedings and
in the ensuing mischief ................

by Kevin Wilson - Toronto Now

...[W]ho [are you] hanging out with these days, Buzz?...[T]here are a few senators, privy councillors and other symbols of Upper Canadiana, both old money and nouveau gauche...If you look higher up on the list, though, it’s hard not to get the impression that sometime in the past few years Buzz Hargrove turned into Boss Hargrove...[W]e [shouldn't] pretend that Hargrove’s swank dinner with his newer, better friends is anything but what it is – proof positive that a once-proud labour innovator who aspired to build connections with a broader social movement has now morphed into his opposite.

Ah, they were the best and worst of gigs…One of the worst gigs I ever played was a catered party for the Port Authority on a ferry boat in Seattle in 1983. It was formal, the men in my band were in tuxes and I was in a formal gown. They rolled out lawns on the ferry decks for the guests to play croquet and the second my band finished playing, they stowed us away to a room and ordered us not to mingle with the guests!

By Stephen Lendman - April, 26 2008

They're called "Refuseniks" but not for refusing to serve. They've done it proudly and courageously...["]We [Israeli reserve officers & soldiers] shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people...We hereby declare that we shall continue serving the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israel's defense...The missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose - and we shall take no part in them."

By DAVID ROVICS - March 24, 2008

...[W]hy is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines? What are we trying to accomplish here?

By Maggie Ronayne - Znet

...[I]t is becoming widely known that the US fights its wars not only by military might or by proxy, but by using "human rights and democracy" programmes and "development projects" to undermine governments...that do not suit them...When Kurdish "human rights" professionals judge events on the basis of what is helpful or damaging to the US...they no longer represent Kurdish people.

Can you imagine being taken from your home in the middle of the night for child abuse, by police, as the child...and then being delivered under the cover of dark to a state child protection institution which looks more like a maximum security prison, where you are stripped to nothing but a naked body? When you are “liberated,” or released, to a social worker, you will then be put back into the clothing you wore the tragic night all this began, triggering a flood of memories from the smell, sight, feel of those clothes from your now missing parents’ home, that you had not seen in a while.