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Should We Democratize the Economy?

Posted May 6th, 2008 by Steve Anderson

There is no real public discussion either in the media or by presidential candidates to make the changes necessary to democratize the economy. We have seen a general move to an increasingly regressive tax system in the past 30 or 40 years in the US and Europe. Public boards should make corporations and banks more accountable. Watch the interview with Leo Panitch.

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Amber Mac on Net Neutrality

Posted April 16th, 2008 by Steve Anderson

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'Throttling' Net Traffic in Canada

Sometimes all it takes to create a political issue is a whole bunch of little things happening at once.

CANADA: Native Leader Serving Six Months for Opposing Mine

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Mar 5 (IPS) - Algonquin community leader Robert Lovelace had never been charged with an offence, but when a uranium company began prospecting for radioactive ore on unceded native land without engaging in consultation, he decided to take action, organising a non-violent blockade.

Machetes, Ethnic Conflict and Reductionism

Racist assumptions mar western media coverage of Kenya.

CANADA: High Housing Prices Swell Ranks of Homeless

VANCOUVER, Feb 12 (IPS) - Canada is continuing to see increases in homelessness and precarious housing situations across the country as rents increase and incomes stay level, but intergovernmental bickering over housing policy is overshadowing the need to take leadership on the issue, according to critics.

Canadian General Takes Senior Command Role in Iraq

VANCOUVER, Jan 23 (IPS) - Despite the government's official position abstaining from combat in Iraq, Canada has dispatched yet another top general to the command group overseeing day-to-day operations for the U.S.-led occupation and counterinsurgency war.

US Recession the Result of Decline in middleclass wages

Posted January 24th, 2008 by Steve Anderson

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Leo Panitch: Weakening of unions and global pressures on US wages a major factor (1 of 2)

Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Panitch is also the author of Global Capitalism and American Empire.

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Database assembles U.S. warnings of Saddam threat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's warnings about prewar Iraq, from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's "mushroom cloud" to Vice President Dick Cheney's statements on weapons of mass destruction, were released on Wednesday in a searchable online database.