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Anticipation
One of the reasons things have been so quiet around here is that we're hard at work, building a brand-new, completely overhauled Dominion web site. Coming in the new year....
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James Brown is dead, support the troops.
Is there something about religious holidays that makes the media become particularly enthusiastic in their diffusion of propaganda? The front page of most papers today (at least online) is Hillier serving Turkey to the troops. CBC's The National started with...
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Xmas in Kandahar
"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. Macdonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas." --Thomas Friedman....
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Letter to the Globe: Ignatieff on
In what may become a regular thing, we're once again sharing letters that likely won't be published in the Globe. Here's one by Stefan Christoff. Sending a letter? cc: it to dru [at] dominionpaper.ca. Stéphane Dion has placed his formal...
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Civic Backlash Against PIVOT
Legal advocacy organization PIVOT in Vancouver has been barred from contacting civic workers directly, rather than through a lawyer. It comes in the context of several legal battles against the City related to the ongoing illegal closures of Downtown Eastside...
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Afghan correspondent
The Dominion just published its first dispatch from Afghanistan, by correspondent Chris Sands. It promises to be the first of many....
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Mackinnon on Post-Soviet Revolutions
Globe and Mail Mideast correspondent Mark Mackinnon has a new book coming out in April: The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union. If this text is any indication, it's going to be...
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Batman is alive...
...and operating out of a Russian military intelligence building in Moscow:...
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Downtown Eastside - Carrigg's Odd Timing
A letter to the Vancouver Province: With his December 11 article "Are These Vocal Activists Housing Hypocrites?" in the Vancouver Province, writer David Carrigg continues in his tradition of defaming members of the local activist community. Notably though, this one...
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Québec Solidaire
A Socialist Voice comments on the new provincial party, and its recent first convention in Montreal....
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Occupation Kills
Tarek Lubani is chronicling his travels in Lebanon and -- not quite -- Palestine on his web site....
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Bleeding Afghanistan
Seven Oaks has an interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Jim Ingalls, co-authors of Bleeding Afghanistan, which I neglected to link to long ago....
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The interesting precedent of Jon Tester
Joshua Frank looks at Montana's new populist senator and the potential for a Red-State left. When I say heâ??s not really even a Democrat, that may be a bit of an understatement. Tester is essentially an NRA approved neo-populist with...
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Letter to the Globe: Jimenez and Chavez
Dear Globe Editors, In her most recent dispatch from Venezuela, Marina Jimenez strongly implies--without any evidence--that recently re-elected President Hugo Chavez is anti-beauty pageant. Earlier, we heard about how Venezuelans like to shop, and again, it was implied that this...
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Will Kristof visit Gaza?
Alexander Cockburn: "When the RENAMO gangs, backed by Ronald Reagan and the apartheid regime in South Africa were butchering Mozambican peasants, the news stories were sparse and the tone usually tentative in any blame-laying. Not so with Darfur, where moral...
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