Landmark Trade Deal Struck By China, New Zealand

"HONG KONG - In the free-trade Olympics, China has scored its first major individual gold medal.Seeking to catch up with the U.S. in forming its own club of bilateral trade partners, China on Monday inked a pact with New Zealand that is its first comprehensive free-trade...

Snoop Dogs: High Honors for Malaysian Piracy Hounds

The Motion Picture Association of America has funded and implemented two DVD-sniffing dogs in its quest to secure the distribution deals of its member studios. Pirates find these canines far less cute, placing a bounty on their elongated heads. After Reading this, I bet...

GrainVi$ion

"Just googling around and I found this little item about the Wheat Board from the folks that want to kill it. It was addressed to Ralph Goodale and is from 2005. Clearly what the Liberals would not grant them Chuck Strahl has. And if you notice from the signatories, they are...

BioFuel and The Wheat Board

"Is there a connection between the Harper announcement promoting bio-fuels and the push to kill the Wheat Board. Why of course there is. Its called Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) who is a shareholder in Agricore the Alberta based Wheat and Barley exchange, and they are the...

Privateer Runs Wheat Board

" The Conservatives have pulled their coup on the farmers run Wheat Board. And in firing the current CEO his replacement is pro privatization, pro corporate monopolies. Strahl made his firing public complete with staged rally."

Playing In The Pool

"While eyes are focused on the debacle that is the Tories failed attempt to impose dual marketing in the Wheat and Barley market, with their backdoor attempt to dismatle the Wheat Board lets look at who benefits from dual marketing."

Globalization Sucks

"The Americans and French have more in common than they think. Job worries damp public support for globalisation Public support for economic globalisation is rising on both sides of the Atlantic but US and French voters are worried that freer trade costs jobs, according to...

Harper Supports Calderon

"As I pointed out earlier our PM and his pal George Bush were in Mexico to legitimate the illegal government of Felipe Calderon. A goverment that has been supressing human rights, killing and torturing the opposition, in Mexico. But Harper was silent on that issue."

Bolivarian Democracy

"With all international eyes on the December 3rd Venezuelan presidential elections, a totally new and revolutionary experience of Venezuelan grassroots democracy has completely slipped below international radar."

Left Wing Pragmatism III

"Ecuador It's oil that gives the Left it's power in Latin America. And Ecuador has lots of it.Ecuador to seek to rejoin OPEC: Correa And Canadian Petrocompanies are major investors, though they have sullied reputations having been implicated in the destruction of Ecuadors...

Left Wing Pragmatism II

"The new evil empire for America is Venezuela and its leader Hugo Chavez. Right after Cuba and Fidel Castro. The American media and politicians liberal and right wing go into spasms of red baiting when one utters two little words; Hugo Chavez."

Left Wing Pragmatism

" As I wrote here the new left wing regimes in Latin America are not the old Stalinist model that the red baiting American right likes to claim they are. They have learned the lessons of defeat, of compromise, and that the need to create social democracy is as important as...

Right Against Right

"The plan to create an intergrated Free Trade Zone of North America is supported in Canada by the Right Wing, in particluar members of the New Government of Canada and their allies in the Canadian CEO lobby under Thomas d'Aquino and by rigth wing provincial governments like...

WTO Promotes Slavery

WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Market For Africa At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa that took place on Saturday, November 11, the WTO announced the creation of a new, much-improved form of slavery for the parts of Africa that have been...