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by Lyn Duff
San Francisco Bay View
Presidential elections in Haiti were postponed for the fifth time this week and have been rescheduled for January. Some on Haiti’s left have called for an election boycott until the thousands of political prisoners are released and there is an end to the extensive human rights violations against Haiti’s poor majority by the national police.
Observers predict that elections will take place and that Ren
Our December issue has been generating some positive interest — on Scott Neigh’s blog, for instance. Hopefully it can help to inject some much needed critical information into what passes for a foreign policy debate in this election campaign.
(Here’s the text of the December dispatch of our “Cyberpatch Monthly” recommended readings. You can sign up for this free monthly service on the main page of our website. -Ed.)
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by Hillary Lindsay
The Dominion
For the bewildered conscientious food shopper, Kneen’s advice is unequivocal: ‘Buy local!! Ignore corporate organic, and buy locally produced food directly from the farmer or through a food co-op.’”
Richard Gott
The Guardian
The opposition’s plan was to make people believe that ‘democracy in Venezuela is in grave peril.’ It is indeed in peril, threatened by a tiny ragbag of opposition groups given disproportionate international influence through the support of the US.”
Greg Albo and Brian Evans
Relay (Socialist Project)
November 30, 2005
The Liberals will be difficult to dislodge, not because they are popular, but because they are the party of the
by Rachel Engler-Stringer
Rabble.ca
December 3, 2005
Yves Engler, a member of Haiti Action Montreal and a frequent contributor to rabble.ca [and to Briarpatch -Ed.], is being kept in jail over the weekend after he disrupted a speech by the Prime Minister Thursday morning shouting
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
December 3, 2005
The old media dog sniffed the air, found power was moving away from the White House, and began to drool
Watching the pathetic, old, lie-on-its-back frightened labrador of the American media changing overnight into a vicious rottweiler is one of the enduring pleasures of society in the United States. I have been experiencing this phenomenon over the past two weeks, as both victim and beneficiary.
For the past six years we have witnessed how, in the midst of great adversity, millions of Venezuelans have taken their destiny into their own hands and worked together to achieve the construction of a society rooted in the values of solidarity, democracy and social justice.
Word Warriors
Dec 3
As you know, Buzz Hargrove, the president of the Canadian Auto Workers, was pictured on Friday embracing Paul Martin and declaring that Martin deserves another term as prime minister. To be sure, he talked about the need for a minority government. But his enthusiastic endorsement of Martin - and his insulting remarks about Jack Layton - have given Martin a totally undeserved boost.
Hargrove
