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  • March 2003: Lula Bows to Wall Street

    Brazil’s new “leftist” President moves right to keep U.S. happy Forty years after Brazil’s last leftist government was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup, the left appeared to have regained power there on January 1 when Luiz Inacio (“Lula”) da Silva, the candidate for the left-leaning Workers’ Party (PT), was…

  • October 2002: The Ravaging of Africa

    Western neo-colonialism fuels wars, plundering of resources The G8 Summit held in Kananaskis in June, pledged $6 billion dollars a year in so-called aid to Africa by 2006. The low figure caused Phil Twyford of Oxfam to say “We’re extremely disappointed by this wasted opportunity. They’re offering peanuts to Africa…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    New CCPA study calculates British Columbians’ “cost shift”

    Study details how British Columbians fare after one year of tax and spending cuts, provides on-line tool for individuals to calculate their personal bottom line CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a major new study today called Cost Shift: How British…

  • June 2002: A U.S.-Financed Military Dictatorship

    Pakistan has long, bloody history as terrorist arm of U.S. The United States’ choice of Pakistan as an ally in its “war on terrorism” provides the spectacle of the two leading terrorist states on Earth “fighting terrorism.” The U.S. has killed more than eight million people in the Third World…

  • No need to subsidize business by rolling back labour rights

    “No pain, no gain” seems to be the preferred cliché of the new provincial government. While this approach may be well and good for Olympic athletes, it’s not working as an approach to public policy. A case in point is the government’s plan to turn back the clock on employment…

  • December 2001: An Unpunished War Criminal

    Book review THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER by Christopher Hitchens, Verso, 2001, $35 (Book Review) “Kissinger is a thug, a crook, a liar and a murderer.”– Christopher Hitchens The United States government is the most violent in the world and since 1945 has killed upwards of eight million people in…

  • November 2001: Exporting Destruction

    Report says EDC is putting people and the environment at risk The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous projects in the Third World, says a recent report. These are the Antamina mine in Peru, the Chamera I and II dams in India, the…

  • March 2001: “Toxic Bob” Wastes Burma

    Forced labour and pollution rampant at Canadian-owned mine According to a recent report, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., a Canadian company owned by Robert Friedland, is “raping the environment” and using forced labour in Burma. Ivanhoe operates the US$90 million Monywa copper mine, Burma’s largest mining investment, in a 50-50 partnership with…

  • December 2000: Profiting From Repression

    Canadian firms in Colombia protected by military death squads Since 1990, 35,000 Colombians have been killed in a horrific escalation of political violence. An average of ten political assassinations are reported every day. Colombia’s state security forces and their paramilitary allies have been responsible for the vast majority of these…

  • November 2000: Arming A Genocidal Force

    Canadian military exports to Indonesia, 1979-1999 As the Indonesian army and its militias set fire to Dili and killed thousands of East Timorese in September 1999, the Canadian government refused to stop the export of military goods to Indonesia. This at a time when even the United States, Jakarta’s main…