Site Map by Topic

I. Politics & Commentary

• Africa
  
• Canadian Stuff
  
• Education
  
• G8
  
• Hurricane Katrina
  
• The Middle East / "War on Terror"
  
• Media Issues
  
• Poverty & Class Issues
  
• Religion
  
• Solidarity
  
• General Politics & Commentary (by Date)
  

II. Fun & Humour

• Science Related
  
• Comics
  
• General Fun & Humour
  

III. Family, Women & Gay Issues

• Family Issues & Children
  
• Gay Rights
  
• Women's Rights
  

IV. Environment

• Urban Issues
  
• Science
  
• General Environment
  

V. Arts, Music & Books

• Film
  
• Art
  
• Music
  
• Books & Literature
  

VI. Philosophy & Reflection

VII. Health

I. Politics & Commentary

Africa



• Aids in Africa makes me sad and mad 4-Apr-05
  
• Rebuilding countries is big business 21-Apr-05
  
• African Debt and Hypocrisy 9-Jun-05
  
• Aid to Africa and Climate Change Intimately Linked 21-Jun-05
  
• Death for Millions, not "Victory for Millions" 24-Jun-05
  
• Monbiot on the G8, the bombings in London and the Make Poverty History campaign 10-Jul-05
  
• Darfur as a Resource War 24-Aug-05
  
• Water Privatization in South Africa 25-Nov-05
  
• Grab Bag - From Iran to the "Dark" Continent 14-Aug-06
  
• Solar Power in India/Wind Power in Africa 06-Dec-06
  

Canadian Stuff



• Burn, Canada And Spain, Burn! 5-Jul-05
  
• Canadian Election Strategies for Progressives 19-Jan-06
  
• Federal Cuts Undermine the Progress of Women and All Canadians 26-Sep-06
  
• War Preparations for Impending Iran-US Conflict: Canadian Participation? 11-Oct-06
  
• Toronto City Elections 18-Oct-06
  
• Challenges to CanWest's Attempt to Overturn Drug Ad Ban 9-Nov-06
  

Education



• This weekend in the news: 24-Apr-05
  
• Precarity and the scary world of Christina Hoff Sommers (long post) 4-May-05
  
• Higher Education: state or private funding? 18-Sep-05
  
• Stop the Abusive Teen Rehab Industry 24-Jan-06
  

G8



• Aid to Africa and Climate Change Intimately Linked 21-Jun-05
  
• Death for Millions, not "Victory for Millions" 24-Jun-05
  
• Monbiot on the G8, the bombings in London and the Make Poverty History campaign 10-Jul-05
  

Hurricane Katrina



• Why it is important to be political 2-Sep-05
  
• Why it is important to be political PART II 6-Sep-05
  
• When White House Officials and their Cronies do care 10-Sep-05
  
• Profiting off of other's misfortunes, part deux 12-Sep-05
  
• Notes on bad weather and good government 13-Sep-05
  
• Purging the Poor 25-Sep-05
  

Middle East / "War on Terror"



• Rebuilding countries is big business 21-Apr-05
  
• Weasel Words 1-Jun-05
  
• The 3rd International Trade Exhibition for the Rebuilding of Iraq 23-Jun-05
  
• Interview with Dahr Jamail 06-Nov-05
  
• Cindy Sheehan's Open Letter to Barbara Bush 22-Nov-05
  
• So Iraq is better off... How? 20-Dec-05
  
• Satire of the Day: The Average Iraqi is ecstatic 20-Dec-05
  
• Martin Luther King Day 28-Jan-06
  
• Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki 7-Feb-06
  
• The New Abu Ghraib Photos - Yet Another Failure of the Media 20-Feb-06
  
• Scared of Iran?5-May-06
  
• Reality Check: War in Iraq 10-May-06
  
• How to Get Out of Iraq 29-May-06
  
• Combat + Sexual Trauma = I Can't Even Imagine 11-Jul-06
  
• In war, there are no winners 27-Jul-06
  
• More on the Israel/Lebanon Conflict 08-Aug-06
  
• UK "Terror Plot" too Convenient 16-Aug-06
  
• Iraq: War Profiteers and Misinformation 22-Aug-06
  
• Lie By Lie: How the Iraq War was Sold 06-Sep-06
  
• The World Failed to Change on 9/11 11-Sep-06
  
• "War, War, Rumours of War" 21-Sep-06
  
• War Preparations for Impending Iran-US Conflict: Canadian Participation? 11-Oct-06
  
• Non-Violent resistance in Israel and the Occupied territories 29-Oct-06
  
• U.S. Again Stands in the way of Justice for Palestinians 13-Nov-06
  
• Media Void 24-Nov-06
  

Media Issues



• Cowardice in Journalism Award for Newsweek, Goebbels Award for Condi 19-May-05
  
• The New Abu Ghraib Photos - Yet Another Failure of the Media 20-Feb-06
  
• Reality Check: War in Iraq 10-May-2006
  
• Iraq: War Profiteers and Misinformation 22-Aug-06
  
• Halliburton Responds to Iraq for Sale 18-Sep-06
  
• Media Void 24-Nov-06

Poverty & Class Issues



• Aids in Africa makes me sad and mad 4-Apr-05
  
• Rebuilding countries is big business 21-Apr-05
  
• This weekend in the news: 24-Apr-05
  
• Precarity and the scary world of Christina Hoff Sommers (long post) 4-May-05
  
• Food Force Video Game 9-May-05
  
• How Class Works - Interactive - very neat 17-May-05
  
• Women's weight found to affect job, income 1-Jun-05
  
• The hole in the wall experiment 22-Jun-05
  
• Monbiot on the G8, the bombings in London and the Make Poverty History campaign 10-Jul-05
  
• Profiting off of other's misfortunes, part deux 12-Sep-05
  
• Education: state or private funding? 17-Sep-05
  
• Purging the Poor 25-Sep-05
  
• Blame the Victims - Part 1 18-Oct-05
  
• Save Rich People First 19-Oct-05
  
• Today's Rant on Poverty and Class 24-Oct-05
  
• Why is France Burning? 07-Nov-05
  
• Water Privatization in South Africa 25-Nov-05
  
• Squatter City 13-Jan-06
  
• International Women's Day 08-Mar-06
  
• Scared of Iran? 5-May-06
  
• Connecting Movements = Solidarity 5-Oct-06
  
• Challenges to CanWest's Attempt to Overturn Drug Ad Ban 9-Nov-06
  
• Microcredit and Women Empowerment 16-Nov-06
• Who Are the 400 Poorest? 29-Nov-06
  


Racism & Race Issues

• Aids & Racism are Intimately Connected 1-Dec-05
  
• Martin Luther King Day 28-Jan-06
  
• Pseudo-Scientific Hate Propaganda and "Women Drivers" 09-Feb-06
  

Religion



• Jesus Christ in legal battle to get license 11-May-05
  
• Is God playing Sim City? If so, is He losing or winning? 11-Aug-05
  
• The Pope of the Chimps 09-Jun-06
  
• Spinoza - Reason in an Age of Religious Intolerance 1-Aug-06
  
• The Muslim malaise 29-Aug-06
  

Solidarity



• Aid to Africa and Climate Change Intimately Linked 21-Jun-05
  
• Connecting Movements = Solidarity 5-Oct-06
  
• "Environmentalists need to get on the Social Justice Bus" 22-Oct-06
  
• Authoritarianism in America 17-Oct-06
  
• Empathy 17-Nov-06

General Politics & Commentary (by Date)



• The Corporation - Joel Bakan 24-Mar-05
  
• Aids in Africa makes me sad and mad 4-Apr-05
  
• Review: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins 4-Apr-05
  
• Rebuilding countries is big business 21-Apr-05
  
• This weekend in the news: 24-Apr-05
  
• Purely Awesome - Matt Taibbi 26-Apr-05
  
• Obesity Wars 27-Apr-05
  
• My Hero - Howard Zinn on Democracy Now! 27-Apr-05
  
• Help Support Women's Reproductive Rights 29-Apr-05
  
• Precarity and the scary world of Christina Hoff Sommers (long post) 4-May-05
  
• Just in case you thought the Bush administration's hypocrisy was in doubt 16-May-05
  
• Cowardice in Journalism Award for Newsweek, Goebbels Award for Condi 19-May-05
  
• Political Compass Quiz 25-May-05
  
• The False Hope of the Environmentally-friendly Automobile 30-May-05
  
• Weasel Words 1-Jun-05
  
• Women's weight found to affect job, income 1-Jun-05
  
• Speaking of things that make me mad... 8-Jun-05
  
• African Debt and Hypocrisy 9-Jun-05
  
• Mad Cow Cover-up 15-Jun-05
  
• Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports rewarded with a new job at ExxonMobil 16-Jun-05
  
• AIDS drug experiments on foster children 17-Jun-05
  
• Aid to Africa and Climate Change Intimately Linked 21-Jun-05
  
• The 3rd International Trade Exhibition for the Rebuilding of Iraq 23-Jun-05
  
• Death for Millions, not "Victory for Millions" 24-Jun-05
  
• Milk Money: How Corporate Interests Shaped Government Health Policy for Women 30-Jun-05
  
• Burn, Canada And Spain, Burn! 5-Jul-05
  
• Monbiot on the G8, the bombings in London and the Make Poverty History campaign 10-Jul-05
  
• In a warmed world, even food won't be as good for you 14-Jul-05
  
• A Chilling Postapocalyptic Vision 16-Jul-05
  
• Domestic Violence Not the Government's Problem? 21-Jul-05
  
• Why nostalgia should not replace history 26-Jul-05
  
• Pollution in Newborn Babies 27-Jul-05
  
• Nuclear power = 7 times more expensive than conservation 10-Aug-05
  
• Is God playing Sim City? If so, is He losing or winning? 11-Aug-05
  
• Weird and interesting plan to curb carbon-dioxide emissions 16-Aug-05
  
• Darfur as a Resource War 24-Aug-05
  
• Get your war on 25-Aug-05
  
• Why it is important to be political 2-Sep-05
  
• Why it is important to be political PART II 6-Sep-05
  
• When White House Officials and their Cronies do care 10-Sep-05
  
• Notes on bad weather and good government 13-Sep-05
  
• The Take 5-Oct-05
  
• Blame the Victims - Part 1 18-Oct-05
  
• Save Rich People First 19-Oct-05
  
• Today's Rant on Poverty and Class 24-Oct-05
  
• Bush TV conference With Soldiers Staged 20-Oct-05
  
• Science Shmience - If you don't agree with our politics, your science is wrong 02-Nov-05
  
• Why is France Burning? 07-Nov-05
  
• Water Privatization in South Africa 25-Nov-05
  
• So Iraq is better off... How? 20-Dec-05
  
• Martin Luther King Day 28-Jan-06
  
• Canadian Election Strategies for Progressives 19-Jan-06
  
• Stop the Abusive Teen Rehab Industry 24-Jan-06
  
• Why do People Vote Right Wing? 16-Mar-06
  
• Blaming the Victims of Rape 25-Apr-06
  
• The 9/11 Conspiracy: A Skeptic's View 28-Apr-06
  
• How to Get Out of Iraq29-May-06
  
• Combat + Sexual Trauma = I Can't Even Imagine 11-Jul-06
  
• More on the Israel/Lebanon Conflict 08-Aug-06
  
• UK "Terror Plot" too Convenient 16-Aug-06
  
• The Muslim malaise 29-Aug-06
  
• Federal Cuts Undermine the Progress of Women and All Canadians 26-Sep-06
  
• Connecting Movements = Solidarity 5-Oct-06
  
• Toronto City Elections 18-Oct-06
• Non-Violent resistance in Israel and the Occupied territories 29-Oct-06
  
• Microcredit and Women Empowerment 16-Nov-06
• Media Void 24-Nov-06

II. Fun & Humour

Science Related



• Monkey Prostitution 13-Jul-05
  
• Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space? 11-Aug-05
  
• Neolithic Noodles Unearthed in China 27-Oct-05
  
• The Pope of the Chimps 09-Jun-06
  

Comics



• Get your war on 25-Aug-05
  
• DTWOF 14-May-05
  
• Latest Funnies 16-Nov-2005
  
• Self Investigation for Criminals 06-Jan-2006
  
• Weltschmerz (Comic) 19-May-06
  
• Balanced Reporting 04-Aug-06
  

General Fun & Humour



• Walmart Workers Diet - 29-Sep-05
  
• Draw a Pig - Personality Test 20-Apr-05
  
• More Earth Day Madness 22-Apr-05
  
• Happy Earth Day 22-Apr-05
  
• Get a glimpse into the life of a stranger 6-May-05
  
• Food Force Video Game 9-May-05
  
• Grocery Store Wars 9-May-05
  
• Jesus Christ in legal battle to get license 11-May-05
  
• DTWOF 14-May-05
  
• How Class Works - Interactive - very neat 17-May-05
  
• Political Compass Quiz 25-May-05
  
• Burn, Canada And Spain, Burn! 5-Jul-05
  
• Monkey Prostitution 13-Jul-05
  
• Stuff on My Cat 18-Jul-05
  
• Photoshop Ralph Klein 25-Jul-05
  
• Is God playing Sim City? If so, is He losing or winning? 11-Aug-05
  
• Weird and interesting plan to curb carbon-dioxide emissions 16-Aug-05
  
• Is it Food? 23-Aug-05
  
• Get your war on 25-Aug-05
  
• Help Oneself (Funny Engrish) 26-Oct-05
  
• Satire of the Day: The Average Iraqi is ecstatic 20-Dec-05
  
• Am I Wrong Or Right? .com 16-Jan-06
  
• Political Video games 22-Feb-06
  
• How to spot a terrorist3-May-06
  
• Trichinosis 31-May-06
  
• Bush Pilot 11-Aug-06
  
• Super Spy-o-Matic 28-Sep-06
  
• Real Estate Deal of the Day: $20 per Acre 12-Oct-06
  
• Friday Funday! 10-Nov-06
• Have a Burning Question? 15-Nov-06
  

III. Family, Women & Gay Issues

Family Issues & Children



• This weekend in the news: 24-Apr-05
  
• Precarity and the scary world of Christina Hoff Sommers (long post) 4-May-05
  
• AIDS drug experiments on foster children 17-Jun-05
  
• Why nostalgia should not replace history 26-Jul-05
  
• Pollution in Newborn Babies 27-Jul-05
  
• Blame the Victims - Part 1 18-Oct-05
  
• Stop the Abusive Teen Rehab Industry 24-Jan-06
  
• Child Abuse: As American as Apple Pie 03-Nov-06
  
• What Do Kids Think? 6-Dec-06
  

Gay Rights



• DTWOF 14-May-05
  
• Burn, Canada And Spain, Burn! 5-Jul-05
  

Women's Rights/Women's Issues



• Help Support Women's Reproductive Rights 29-Apr-05
  
• Women's weight found to affect job, income 1-Jun-05
  
• Milk Money: How Corporate Interests Shaped Government Health Policy for Women 30-Jun-05
  
• Domestic Violence Not the Government's Problem? 21-Jul-05
  
• Why nostalgia should not replace history 26-Jul-05
  
• Blame the Victims - Part 1 18-Oct-05
  
• Slang Words for Women 25-Jan-06
  
• Pseudo-Scientific Hate Propaganda and "Women Drivers" 09-Feb-06
  
• "Hello, Men!" 17-Feb-06
  
• International Women's Day 08-Mar-06
  
• Blaming the Victims of Rape 25-Apr-06
  
• Combat + Sexual Trauma = I Can't Even Imagine 11-Jul-06
  
• Federal Cuts Undermine the Progress of Women and All Canadians 26-Sep-06
  
• Five Things Feminism Has Done for Me 27-Sep-06
  
• Connecting Movements = Solidarity 5-Oct-06
  
• Sad News Tempered by Small Victories for Women 19-Oct-06
  
• Microcredit and Women Empowerment 16-Nov-06
• Eliminate Violence Against Women 17-Nov-06
  

IV. Environment

Urban Issues



• The False Hope of the Environmentally-friendly Automobile 30-May-05
  
• Why New York is the Greenest City in the U.S. 8-Jun-05
  
• Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler 8-Oct-05
  
• Carfree Cities (Book Review) 23-Nov-05
  
• Traffic Gridlock Costs Billions 26-Jan-06
  
• Oil Shortage? Shell's CEO says "Nothing to Worry About" 01-Feb-06
  
• Pseudo-Scientific Hate Propaganda and "Women Drivers" 09-Feb-06
  
• Turn a Parking Space into a Park 15-Mar-06
  
• Cars are Killing Us 03-Oct-06
  
• Toronto Streets 31-Oct-06
  

Science



• Abiogenic Theory of Oil 16-Apr-05
  

General Environment



• Abiogenic Theory of Oil 16-Apr-05
  
• More Earth Day Madness 22-Apr-05
  
• Happy Earth Day 22-Apr-05
  
• Second Use For Everything (SUFE) 11-May-05
  
• Jesus Christ in legal battle to get license 11-May-05
  
• The False Hope of the Environmentally-friendly Automobile 30-May-05
  
• Why New York is the Greenest City in the U.S. 8-Jun-05
  
• Speaking of things that make me mad... 8-Jun-05
  
• Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports rewarded with a new job at ExxonMobil 16-Jun-05
  
• Aid to Africa and Climate Change Intimately Linked 21-Jun-05
  
• In a warmed world, even food won't be as good for you 14-Jul-05
  
• A Chilling Postapocalyptic Vision 16-Jul-05
  
• Pollution in Newborn Babies 27-Jul-05
  
• Nuclear power = 7 times more expensive than conservation 10-Aug-05
  
• Weird and interesting plan to curb carbon-dioxide emissions 16-Aug-05
  
• Landfill Mining 28-Sep-05
  
• Why fuel prices must keep going up 8-Nov-05
  
• Biofuels? 10-Nov-05
  
• Even if you eat organic your blood is probably a toxic soup 15-Nov-05
  
• Carfree Cities (Book Review) 23-Nov-05
  
• At the World Social Forum 28-Jan-06
  
• Oil Shortage? Shell's CEO says "Nothing to Worry About" 01-Feb-06
  
• Turn a Parking Space into a Park 15-Mar-06
  
• Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point 19-May-06
  
• Strangely Beautiful 03-Jul-06
  
• Breathing Earth 14-Sep-06
  
• Cars are Killing Us 03-Oct-06
• Connecting Movements = Solidarity 5-Oct-06
  
• "Environmentalists need to get on the Social Justice Bus" 22-Oct-06
  
• Who Needs Greenwashing? Try Greenbombing! 27-Oct-06
  
• Solar Power in India/Wind Power in Africa 06-Dec-06
  

V. Arts, Music & Books

Film



• The Take: Film Review 5-Oct-05
  
• Oil Shortage? Shell's CEO says "Nothing to Worry About" (Including comments on The End of Suburbia - 1-Feb-06
  
• Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki 7-Feb-06
  
• Trichinosis 31-May-06
  
• Scared Sacred 09-Jun-06
  
• Iraq: War Profiteers and Misinformation 22-Aug-06
  

Art



• Get a glimpse into the life of a stranger 6-May-05
  
• Art I like 24-May-05
  
• Theatre of the Oppressed 3-Jun-05
  
• The hole in the wall experiment 22-Jun-05
  
• Turn a Parking Space into a Park 15-Mar-06
  
• Strangely Beautiful 03-Jul-06
  
• Grab Bag - From Iran to the "Dark" Continent 14-Aug-06
  
• Solar Power in India/Wind Power in Africa 6-Dec-06
  

Music



• Makale - Kingztanbul Review 9-Sep-05
  

Literature



• The Corporation - Joel Bakan 24-Mar-05
  
• Review: Otherwise Than Being - Emmanuel Levinas 29-Mar-05
  
• Review: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins 4-Apr-05
  
• Purely Awesome - Matt Taibbi 26-Apr-05
  
• Carfree Cities (Book Review) 23-Nov-05
  
• Hilarious Excerpt from EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer 13-Jan-06
  
• Squatter City 13-Jan-06
  
• The Pope of the Chimps 09-Jun-06
  

VI. Philosophy & Reflection

• Review: Otherwise Than Being - Emmanuel Levinas 29-Mar-05
  
• Why do People Vote Right Wing? 16-Mar-06
  
• What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? 28-Jun-06
  
• Spinoza - Reason in an Age of Religious Intolerance 1-Aug-06
  
• The Muslim malaise 29-Aug-06
  
• Can Fear be a Useful Tool for Progressives? 30-Aug-06
  
• UK "Terror Plot" too Convenient 16-Aug-06
  
• Dropping Knowledge 01-Sep-06
  
• Authoritarianism in America 17-Oct-06
• "Environmentalists need to get on the Social Justice Bus" 22-Oct-06
  
• Have a Burning Question? 15-Nov-06
  
• Empathy 17-Nov-06
  
• An American in Hezbollah's Tent 06-Dec-06
  

VII. Health & Food Politics

• Aids in Africa makes me sad and mad 4-Apr-05
  
• This weekend in the news: 24-Apr-05
  
• Obesity Wars 27-Apr-05
  
• Food Force Video Game 9-May-05
  
• Grocery Store Wars 9-May-05
  
• Women's weight found to affect job, income 1-Jun-05
  
• Mad Cow Cover-up 15-Jun-05
  
• AIDS drug experiments on foster children 17-Jun-05
  
• In a warmed world, even food won't be as good for you 14-Jul-05
  
• Is it Food? 23-Aug-05
  
• Biofuels? 10-Nov-05
  
• Even if you eat organic your blood is probably a toxic soup 15-Nov-05
  
• Water Privatization in South Africa 25-Nov-05
  
• Aids & Racism are Intimately Connected 1-Dec-05
  
• Political Video games 22-Feb-06
  
• Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point 19-May-06
  
• Challenges to CanWest's Attempt to Overturn Drug Ad Ban 9-Nov-06