AltWeeklies Wire
Nova Scotia Activists Surprised by Clinton Apology to Haitinew
Former US president Bill Clinton has apologized for flooding Haiti with cheap American rice beginning in the mid 1990s, making it impossible for Haitian farmers to compete.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
04-02-2010 |
International
The World Rightly Sees Canada as the Villain at the Copenhagen Climate Change Talksnew
as the Canadian government tries to block climate change agreements to protect tar sands development, we're seen as the bad guy. Or, as British journalist George Monbiot writes, an "immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world."
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
12-11-2009 |
Environment
Cuba Librenew
With Americans craving political change, it's been useful to see the U.S. response to Fidel Castro's resignation; the biggest change the northern hemisphere has seen in a while.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
03-03-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: Cuba, Fidel Castro
Is it Journalism or Military School?new
King J-School acting director Stephen Kimber sees his school as simply one of many paid "service providers," but I'd say it's another example of a university selling its soul to the military.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
12-21-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Canada Armsnew
Newly revealed information shatters the comforting myth of Canada as "the peaceable kingdom," showing instead that we are as complicit in organized repression and murder as any of our wealthy allies.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
11-12-2007 |
Commentary
Attitude Adjustmentsnew
Prime Minister Harper's about-face on Maher Arar is part of a pattern -- he and his Tory/Alliance colleagues unthinkingly spout right-wing rhetoric and when it turns out to be nonsense, they skate merrily away.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
02-05-2007 |
Commentary
Echoes Across Timenew
On Christmas Eve 1906, that year, a bearded Canadian inventor discovered something new -- a way of transmitting music and the human voice over radio waves. But Reginald Fessenden's invention also gave a powerful megaphone to despots and demagogues.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
12-26-2006 |
Commentary
