2005-12-21
Brian Russell: 'Canada-U.S. relations are at their worst since the early 1960s, perhaps ever.'
A Pennsylvania judge rules that 'it is unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.'
A whistleblower exposes the sad reality of America's HIV/AIDS policy.
A Chappelle conspiracy?
2005-12-17
Bush admits he authorized the NSA to spy on hundreds of Americans.
Glenn Greenwald: Bush's unchecked Executive power v. the Founding principles of the U.S.
2005-12-10
The US walks out of climate change talks in Montreal.
The battle over Christmas continues.
Set on fire, shot, raped. Welcome to prime time tv.
2005-11-30
Dolphin therapy helps to fight depression.
Canada's former Minister of Defence and Deputy PM, Paul Hellyer, publicly declares that "UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."
Justin Webb: Dinosaurs, evangelicals and the state
2005-11-20
Thirty & Broke: The real price of a college education today.
Middle school principal put on terrorist watch-list.
Singing may benefit those with Alzheimer's.
A Russian family is accused of cannibalism.
2005-11-12
Italian documentary proves the US military used white phosphorus on civilians in Fallujah.
The pretty new face of racism.
Government Accountability Office report confirms the 2004 election was stolen.
What part of global warming don't we get?
The mayor of Las Vegas has a suggestion for dealing with graffiti artists: 'I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb.'
2005-10-30
Joseph C Wilson: 'Our 27 months of hell.'
Introducing NicoShot, a new nicotine beer.
Rosa Parks will lie in honour in the US Capitol Rotunda.
Mark Hutaff: Fake Terrorism Is a Coalition's Best Friend
7733 scientists agree that 'intelligent design' is not science.
This remote control works on humans.
Paul Craig Roberts: The Police State Is Closer Than You Think
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
2005-09-25
Jeremy Rifkin: 'Katrina and Rita are the entropy bill for increasing CO2 emissions and global warming.'
Anti-war protesters gather in Washington and London.
Susan Ruttan: 'Alberta Health and Wellness has issued a request for proposals from insurance companies on how to create a parallel private health insurance system.'
2005-09-18
Halliburton wins a contract to clean up after Katrina.
Michael Parenti: How the Free Market Killed New Orleans
Is this what Katrina survivors have to look forward to?
Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans describe their attempt to get out.
Mark Fiore: Whoopsi Gras
2005-09-04
Matt Wells: 'The truth was simple and apparent to all. If journalists were there with cameras beaming the suffering live across America, where were the officers and troops?'
Police join looters in New Orleans.
Gary Younge: Criticism of Bush mounts as more than 10,000 feared dead
2005-08-24
Televangelist Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of Venezuela's president.
Hunter Thompson's final sendoff.
Lloyd Axworthy advises 'seriously considering an end to NAFTA and reliance instead upon the World Trade Organization to regulate the terms and provisions of free trade.'
Dubya pretends he's literate.
Diane Carman: 'If history is any guide, we all should be very afraid of politicians legislating science education.'
Pittsburgh police use tasers and pepper spray on anti-war protesters.
Eight kittens are born to cloned wildcats.
Medical review confirms fetuses can not feel pain until the last few weeks of pregnancy.
2005-08-14
US refuses to comply with NAFTA ruling.
Weird Science on the Religious Right
Global warming hits a tipping point.
2005-07-28
The US and Australia announce their target-free alternative to the Kyoto protocol. Environment groups are unimpressed.
London police shoot and kill an innocent man.
A Bush parody wins the Faux Falkner writing contest.
Vanessa Grigoriadis: Celebrity and its Discontents
Reading: House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
2005-07-10
Paul Krugman: Free to choose obesity?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sponsor an Ethiopian orphanage for one year.
Frida Berrigan: 'Some counter-recruitment activists and military observers think a perfect storm of conditions is brewing a return to the draft.'
Bill Israel: Save the First Amendment--from Karl Rove.
A 15-year-old is murdered for his iPod.
2005-07-01
The Canadian House of Commons approves the same-sex marriage bill.
42% of Americans now support impeachment if it's found that Bush misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq.
Gina Holland: 'As a top-ranked graduate of Stanford's prestigious law school, class of 1952, O'Connor discovered that most large law firms did not hire women. One offered her a job as a secretary.'
2005-06-25
Terri Schiavo's autopsy shows she was blind and that her brain was half the normal size.
Dick Cheney: 'For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously.'
Another mad cow is found in the US.
The Liberal government plans to extend the sitting of the House of Commons in order to pass the same-sex marriage bill.
The EU's ban on genetically modified food will continue.
Robert Steinback: 'Either you want to know if you've been lied to, or you don't.'
2005-06-09
David Frenkel: 'Evidence shows clear path of premeditated war.'
Wal-Mart's shareholders ask it to clean up.
India's five-year-old policeman.
Bush and Blair deny fixing the facts to justify invading Iraq.
Bob Herbert: 'The gap between the rich and everybody else in this country is fast becoming an unbridgeable chasm.'
Has Tom Cruise lost his mind?
2005-05-14
Analysts say Iraq is now on the brink of civil war, but the American media says nothing.
CEO pay is still on steroids.
Translator and American soldier Erik Saar has written a book about the human rights abuses he witnessed at Guantánamo.
Churches that pull this shit should have their tax-exempt status taken away immediately.
2005-05-06
3-year-old Naomi Leong, the child of an Australian asylum-seeker, has been incarcerated her entire life and is now 'profoundly disturbed.'
Evolution has been put on trial by some Christian groups in Kansas.
Greg Palast: 'The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.'
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages.
2005-04-30
Mike Whitney: 'Religion is being politically exploited to such an extent that it's threatening the fundamental institutions of democratic government.'
A pregnant 13-year-old from Florida is refused an abortion because the court thinks she's too immature to make such an important decision.
Reading: The Summer Tree - Guy Gavriel Kay
2005-03-31
David Morris: 'Organized religion elevates superstition to an entirely new level, so let's call its institutions by their proper name: superstition-based institutions.'
A new study finds that two thirds of the world's resources have already been used up.
James Howard Kunstler: 'What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle?'
Pharmacists refuse to fill birth control prescriptions.
Johnny Depp on Hunter S Thompson.
2005-03-25
Jeremy Hinzman is denied refugee status in Canada.
Scientists say climate change is now inevitable.
The Washington teacher's union takes Wal-Mart off its school supply list.
Southern states refuse to show Imax movies because they mention evolution.
2005-02-21
New studies on global warming 'leave no room for doubt that it is getting warmer, people are to blame, and the weather is going to suffer.'
Author Hunter S Thompson commits suicide.
2005-02-12
Wal-Mart plans to close a Canadian store that tried to unionize.
In Niger some people are still born into slavery.
Tom Harpur visits a Baptist church: 'I have never heard so much venom and dangerous ignorance spouted before an utterly unquestioning, otherwise normal-looking crowd in my life.'
Texan teens have even more sex after taking abstinence courses.
Margaret Kimberley: Killing is Good
2005-01-31
Karyn Strickler: Time for a Corporate Death Penalty Act
A French goat tests positive for 'mad cow' disease.
Joan Chittister: What the Rest of the World watched on Inauguration Day
2005-01-23
Robin Morgan: Fighting Words for a Secular America - Ashcroft & Friends VS. George Washington & The Framers
Tens of thousands protest Bush inauguration.
Vampire in Birmingham?
2005-01-16
Judge orders Georgia school district to remove evolution disclaimers from textbooks.
Clif Garboden: Sometimes the fish in the barrel deserve to die.
Elephant saves girl from tsunami.
Gary Leupp on the new Christian fascism.
2005-01-03
Angry at being called 'stingy' for his original offer of $15 million in tsunami aid, Bush now pledges $350 million.
Wal-Mart encourages its employees to collect public assistance to subsidize their wages.