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	<title>Briarpatch Magazine &#187; 2007 &#187; February</title>
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	<description>Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news &#38; views.</description>
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		<title>Biofuels Affect the Price of Food for the Poor</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/28/biofuels-affect-the-price-of-food-for-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Having caused wholesale changes in the agricultural systems of many poor countries by focusing on free trade and comparative advantage, rich countries are now ready to abandon the poor whose own agriculture no longer functions to feed them.&#8221;

Paul Beingessner
Column #604
January 29, 2007
A few years ago we spent a week or so in Mexico. Our fellow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The February B-List</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/28/the-february-b-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your monthly media supplement of seven recommended readings from beyond the Briarpatch. Sign up to receive the B-List via email by using the form on our homepage.
1. The Ecology of Destruction
by John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review
February 2007
&#8220;It is a characteristic of our age that global ecological devastation seems to overwhelm all other problems, threatening the survivability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter - Stop the attack on women&#8217;s rights in Canada</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/26/an-open-letter-stop-the-attack-on-womens-rights-in-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter
Dear Friends,
I am writing to you to ask for your support in mobilizing communities, groups and individuals against the unprecedented attack on women&#8217;s rights in Canada.
Since their election over a year ago the Harper government has pursued a policy to effectively eliminate policy and programs that would ensure the economic and social equality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Very Big Teeth&#8217; Threaten Campbell&#8217;s Green Ambitions</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/22/very-big-teeth-threaten-campbells-green-ambitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TILMA trade agreement would penalize his plans
By Murray Dobbin
TheTyee.ca
February 21, 2007
Good grief, as Charlie Brown would say. B.C. and Alberta signed the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) last April and it comes into force this coming April Fool&#8217;s Day. Yet the ministers responsible for TILMA in B.C. and Alberta don&#8217;t seem to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Backing for Fatah Stirs New Conflict</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/04/us-backing-for-fatah-stirs-new-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Spokesman Ismayil Radwan said in a public speech that it was Washington&#8217;s intention to &#8220;fuel a civil war in the Palestinian arena.&#8221;
By Jon Elmer and Nora Barrows-Friedman
Inter-Press Service
February 2, 2007
GAZA CITY, Feb 2 (IPS) - Explosions, fierce gunfights and ambulance sirens ripped through the Gaza strip again Thursday, only two days after a ceasefire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/01/peter-mackay-in-israel-and-palestine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Foreign Minister did not see or discuss during his visit
Jon Elmer
The Dominion
January 25, 2007

GAZA CITY, GAZA &#8212; Despite the impression cast by corporate news coverage, there is never anything like &#8220;calm&#8221; here in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The casualty count for 2006 released by Israeli human rights group B&#8217;Tselem reports that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support the troops or support the war? In Afghanistan, it might be difficult to do both</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/01/support-the-troops-or-support-the-war-in-afghanistan-it-might-be-difficult-to-do-both/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Arsenault
ZNet
January 29, 2007
Gagetown, New Brunswick- When some 2,500 people braved snow and ice to form a massive Canadian flag at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown as a part of an emotional farewell to soldiers departing for Afghanistan, it seemed like patriotism at its best.
There was only one problem: many attendees were forced to participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear bedfellow: An open letter to New Democrats, Greens, and progressive Liberals</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/01/dear-bedfellow-an-open-letter-to-new-democrats-greens-and-progressive-liberals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lorne Brown
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
Selective co-operation among parties in several dozen constituencies could deny Stephen Harper control of the country in the next election.
Much of what I am about to say would be unnecessary if Canada had a system of proportional representation like most countries claiming to be democracies. A proportional representation system would ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dec 2006/Jan 2007: Ralph&#8217;s last laugh</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/01/december-2006january-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dec 2006/Jan 2007: Ralph's Last Laugh]]></category>

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<small><strong>Postal Worker Faces Disciplinary Action</strong>
<em>by Gwalgen Geordie Dent</em>
Homophobic pamphlet sparks workplace rights row

<strong><a href="http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/01/ralphs-last-laugh-inter-provincial-trade-deal-ties-the-hands-of-government/">Ralph's Last Laugh</a></strong>
<em>by Ellen Gould</em>
Inter-provincial trade deal cops to business pressure and ties the hands of local and provincial governments

More...</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editor: The spectre of scarcity</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/02/01/letter-from-the-editor-the-spectre-of-scarcity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Oswald Mitchell
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
&#8220;When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.&#8221;
Rudolf Bahro
I&#8217;VE BEEN TRYING LATELY TO FIND A HEALTHY balance between optimism and pessimism, hope and despair. Surveying the accumulating evidence of out-of-control climate change, pending [...]]]></description>
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