Joe MacAnthony discusses the differences as he sees them between the Irish and Canadian news media, from the perspectives of both an insider and a professionally exiled outsider, and explains how the pressures applied by owners are realised in the newsroom.

High drama, suspense and political intrigue drew audiences from the four corners of the nation for the World Premiere of Washington, You’re Fired at this year’s 28th annual Breckenridge Festival of Film.

9/11 New film ragarding the conspiracy of the Pentagon attack on September 11. 2001

On March 28, 2008, Naomi Klein gave the keynote address at the event at Canada's first ever Independent Canadian Jewish Conference, attended by over 100 Jews against the occupation of Palestine from over a dozen organizations in over 20 cities across Canada.

The video of her talk is now online and covers the upcoming 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Israel, the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement, and the significance of the growing Jewish anti-occupation movement in Canada. »»»

Behind this whole debate about reasonable accommodation is the defense of "secularism" which is in fact the defense of the special status given to the capitalist state and bourgeois democracy.

The Video about 20 Years Revolutionary 1st of May in germany's capital Berlin now is available in english for free download.

Do we really want change on Capitol Hill? We say we do, so why aren’t we looking for it?

Some ways in which the status quo is supported through mainstream media:

• Little attention to ecology and nature (e.g. water depletion and pollution), let alone to the social causes and consequences of ‘environmental’ problems and proactive responses to these
• Dominated through political economy (e.g. company “public relations�? promotional efforts, including their press releases) that is largely concentrated and in the hands of the prominent few
• Often uncritical parroting of representatives of dominant organizations and institutions (e.g. government)
• Favouring audiences who are more privileged (e.g. ‘whiter’), while degrading others (e.g. ‘Arabs,’ who often are presented as terrorists)

December 12, 2007, John Chuckman

The Annapolis Conference was, like so many political and diplomatic events of our time, highly choreographed, finely stage-managed, and heavily marketed. Yet, as soon as it was over, it was apparent little had happened, much as when a child opens a much-advertised, expensive plastic toy on Christmas, a brief, glitzy, big-eyed moment followed quickly by tedium. You might compare it to a George Bush press conference or any American presidential debate. Indeed, such choreographed non-events make up a fair portion of what Americans see on their evening news, a phenomenon we might call virtual or synthetic news.

Tomorrow, Nov. 30th 2007, pupils in the whole country again will protest against the 'dumbing down' via their schools: they want 'quality' in their education. Not the government proscribed 'quantity' of 1040 school hours. The present school system - according to an education professor - is dangerous.

People at LM Ericsson in Sweden went on strike three decades ago because they refused to make telephones with build-in bugging software for the dictatorial Stroessner regime in Paraguay. Nowadays people - like in Greece - are killed or 'suicided' if they talk about what really can be done via a cell phone.

The one and only truthful fact about your article is that indeed, tourism is a very valuable economical asset for Cuban people. The rest of your sayings are pure lies and hypocritical half truths. Canadians should be proud to enjoy Cuba’s warm sun and spend money in that welcoming tropical paradise. By choosing Cuba as a favoured destination, Canadian tourists contribute to the income of a government that provides free education and free medical services for all its people.

Weitzman's presentation represents the latest disgusting effort to lump in the movement to uncover the truth behind the 9/11 attacks, a movement which includes hundreds of first responders, firefighters, police, former intelligence officials and the largest 9/11 families representative group,with jihad groups and real Islamic extremists in order to demonize it.

United Nations nuclear watchdog IAEA: "But have we seen Iran having the nuclear material that can readily be used into a weapon? NO! Have we seen an active weaponization program? NO!" - Head of the UN's IAEA Mohamed elBaradei.

Excerpts: On 18 October 2007, two thousand delegates at the national convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) decided in a nearly unanimous vote to demand the Government of Canada immediately withdraw the Canadian Forces from Afghanistan. (...)

Later on the same day, CBC, the Globe and Mail, and La Presse released the results of a jointly-commissioned poll conducted in Afghanistan by the Canadian research firm Environics. The Environics poll indicates a large majority of Afghans want the Canadian Forces to remain in Afghanistan.

by: Michael Skinner*