May 25, 2010
Harper's bank tax rejection harms international relations
The prime minister says he is supporting Canadian banks, but he does so at the expense of ensuring world financial meltdown is avoided in the future.
US Politics
US Politics
May 24, 2010
Marc Emery: An interview before U.S. prison
Libby Davies
A contemplative Emery spoke earlier this year about his extradition and five-year prison sentence.
May 21, 2010
Toronto communities prepare for the G8 and G20 summits
Syed Hussan
An informal poll of local activists show they are preparing to make themselves heard in protests during the upcoming summit in late June.
May 20, 2010
American scientist Craig Venter creates and sells self-replicating synthetic life
rabble staff
ETC Group of Ottawa has been monitoring developments in synthetic biology for the past five years and says the pending commercialization of synthetic life brings frightening possibilities.
May 19, 2010
Weekly Pulse: Nun excommunicated for approving lifesaving abortion
Lindsay Beyerstein
A nun in Phoenix, Arizona was excommunicated for approving a lifesaving abortion.
May 17, 2010
Shrill baby shrill: Right wing rhetoric rising
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
The Maine Republican party goes Tea Party, a Senator calls for guilty until proven innocent, another TP group wants U.S. senators to be appointed, but democracy might be breaking out in Britain.
May 17, 2010
Culture wars: The commoners versus the end-timers
A high percentage of right-wing Christians vote -- why? To ensure that democracy, the deification of man, is gradually diminished.
May 14, 2010
Al Nakba: Expelled from home and native land but not from history
Bahija Réghaï
Palestinians around the world commemorate on May 15 their collective national trauma, the forced exodus from their homeland in 1948, known as Al Nakba or Catastrophe.
May 13, 2010
Weekly Diaspora: More hypocrisy in Arizona
Erin Rosa
After passing what is arguably the harshest immigration law in the country Arizona has now passed a law banning ethnic studies courses, as Feministing reports.
May 12, 2010
Weekly Pulse: SCOTUS nominee Kagan a cipher on choice
Lindsay Beyerstein
On Monday, President Barack Obama nominated solicitor general Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Kagan's nomination has raised eyebrows among progressives.
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