"Ontario is on a "slippery slope" towards water corporatization and a user-pay system, warns the Council of Canadians. The council voiced its concern Monday after Bill 237 passed second reading in the Ontario legislature last week. The bill, introduced by Liberal MPP David Caplan, would require metering on all water usage to ensure that households pay the full costs of the service. The bill would also create corporate boards to oversee water and waste-water utilities in Ontario, and would likely mean househ..."

"Haiti's de facto government will soon announce the appointment of Robert Tippenhauer as its new ambassador to Canada. Previously, Tippenhauer was the President of the first-ever Haitian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He says he will be arriving in Canada shortly after the early June visit to Haiti of Quebec Premier Jean Charest. Should the Canadian government accept Tippenhauer's credentials, it will mark Canada's clearest official alignment with Haiti's right-wing elites. Prior to the Feb. 29, 2004 ouster of dem..."

"The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically elected government in Haiti, enforced by the Marines; it sowed already devastated Afghanistan with cluster bombs and replaced the Taliban with warlords; it is engaging in ongoing efforts to oust Cuban and Venezuelan governments; it is supporting repression in Colombia; it is constantly threatening Iran, Syria, and North Korea; it offers unconditional support to Israel's bloody occupation of Palestine. These actions are ..."

"Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over. You can see it in the way America's dominion has slipped away in its own backyard, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez taunting and ridiculing the superpower with impunity. Yet the set..."

"he US economy has been generating strong economic growth over the past few years as it has come out of recession. After growing at more than 3% a year in 2004 and 2005, the pace picked up to a blistering 5.6% annual rate in the first quarter of this year - although the pace has since then slipped back to 2.9%. So far, though, little of that growth has translated into the hands of the average worker, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)...."

"For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media. In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger." Pro..."

"I finished reading Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski. This is the same guy that wrote the other book I read called The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. I didn’t know what “technetronic” meant before I started reading the book, but he says what it means in the book. Here is what “technetronic” means: The post-industrial society is becoming a “technetronic” society: a society that is shaped culturally, psychologically, socia..."