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Wednesday Night #1367
May 14, 2008, 4 Comments

NAFTA/Mexico The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has proven beneficial to both United States and Canada, but ...

Avaaz on Burma
May 9, 2008, Comments Off on Avaaz on Burma

—–Original Message—– From: Ricken Patel – Avaaz.org [mailto:av***@***az.org" data-original ...

The China of today – Lu Shumin
May 9, 2008, Comments Off on The China of today – Lu Shumin

Lu Shumin . The China of today Ottawa Citizen Friday, May 09, 2008 Many Canadians know that Canada is special to me. Thi ...

Wednesday Night #1366 – The Report
May 7, 2008, 1 Comment

We talked about the moon which made me think about Odysseus who must have spent a lot of time looking at it as he was tr ...

World Economy
May 5, 2008, Comments Off on World Economy

See also: WHAT WENT WRONG – The Economy ; What’s next? ; and related posts on The Economy; Global Monitoring ...

Postscript to #1373 – Kurdistan
May 1, 2008, Comments Off on Postscript to #1373 – Kurdistan

PJAK told to stop cross border attacks on Iran (Press TV – Iran) The semi-autonomous Kurdish government of Iraq ha ...

Pakistan post 2008 elections
April 30, 2008, Comments Off on Pakistan post 2008 elections

For previous news and opinion see Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the aftermath and Pakistan post 2008 el ...

NAFTA – a proposal for renewal
April 28, 2008, 1 Comment

April 28, 2008 Thanks to Ron Robertson for forwarding this thoughtful piece that addresses the problems of NAFTA and off ...

Wednesday Night #1364
April 23, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1364

Before doing our usual tour d’horizon of news and events around the globe, we would like to call to your attention ...

The Olympic Protest Primer
April 22, 2008, 1 Comment

An Xin (a Canadian ex-pat in Beijing) writes: So much of what is happening here now feels like a kind of déja vu. Once ...

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