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Postmodern News Archives 8. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. Serving Capital: A short history of Canada in the Caribbean. While Canada's relationship with the Caribbean is hardly that of an imperial overlord, it has certainly never been that of an agent of kind benevolence. The most significant aspect of Canada's relationship to the Caribbean has been its outstanding service to the working interests of British and U.S. capital. These services can be split into three interrelated areas; finance, tra...
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Postmodern News Archives 6. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. The Truth Buried Alive. Of the thousands of bless you and f you messages that arrived at the Guardian papers after we broke the Florida vote swindle story in November 2000,. Barrick particularly did not like my mention of the stomach-churning evidence that Sutton Resources, a Barrick subsidiary, had buried alive as many as fifty gold miners in Tanzania in August 1996, prior to Barricks purchase of Sutton in 1999. The first report of the a...
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Postmodern News Archives 11. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Western Civilization and his answer was 'Maybe it would be a good idea.', and you can say the same for capitalism, '. That can't be correct. Everybody knows that America is the world-wide example of the so called Free Market, the polar opposite to Communism. The U.S exports Capitalism through "Economic Globalization". That is what we're told isn't it? The word is regularly used. Though it is true ...
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Postmodern News Archives 16. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. The History of Electric Vehicles - The Early Years (1890 - 1930). France and Great Britain were the first nations to support the widespread development of electric vehicles in the late 1800s. In 1899, a Belgian built electric racing car called "La Jamais Contente" set a world record for land speed - 68 mph - designed by Camille Jénatzy. While basic electric cars cost under $1,000, most early electric vehicles were ornate, massive carriag...
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Postmodern News Archives 17. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer? The creation of an anti-environmental myth. Sometimes you find mass murderers in the most unlikely places. Take Rachel Carson. She was, by all accounts, a mild-mannered writer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hardly a sociopath’s breeding ground. And yet, according to many in the media, Carson has more blood on her hands than Hitler. At one level, these articles send a comforting message to the develop...
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Postmodern News Archives 7. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. The Unrealized Power of the Working Class. Lessons from the 2005 CLC Convention. Solidarity Forever the anthem of the labour movement begins with the following words: When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, there can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun. Today, there is very little inspiration among the Canadian working class, and our power remains largely unrealized. The question is: Why? These actions ...
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Postmodern News Archives 10. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. Canada Out of Afghanistan. This Has Nothing to do with Peacekeeping. Brian Mulroney was fond of saying Give me twenty years and you won’t recognize this country. But he was a piker compared to Stephen Harper who is changing the ethics and political culture of this country faster than Mulroney ever dreamed. So why was he so popular? What happened to peacekeeping? Equally important, however, is the actual nature of this farcical humanitari...
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Postmodern News Archives 13. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. In their first year in power, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives managed to undo years of work that came before rejecting the Kelowna Accord, scrapping the national daycare program and turning their backs on Kyoto. Lest we forget, here are eight reasons to turf the Tories the next chance we get. 1 THEIR ROOTS ARE SHOWING. Second Thoughts, in which he dismissed Canada’s Aboriginals as merely first immigrants and argued for their assimilation&...
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Postmodern News Archives 18. Let's Save Pessimism for Better Times. Black Says Case is Far from Over Despite Jail Sentence. Conrad Black appeared unfazed and as determined as ever Monday after a U.S. court sentenced him to six and a half years in prison for defrauding shareholders of his former newspaper empire of millions of dollars. I cannot understand how someone of your stature could engage in the conduct you engaged in and put everything at risk," she said. "But in the United States, Mr. Bla...After...
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