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U.S. Presidential Campaign: Media bias
November 11, 2008, Comments Off on U.S. Presidential Campaign: Media bias

This is a very important issue. It happens that in the case of this election, we share the ‘elite, liberal’ ...

Building a Whole Earth Economy, Peter G. Brown
November 8, 2008, 2 Comments

See also Moral Economy Project,  The sustainable economy  and Peter G. Brown With an impending strike at the Gazette, ...

Studs Terkel
October 31, 2008, Comments Off on Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel: He’ll Never Be Silenced Remembering the original guerrilla journalist By Jeff Cohen, director of the Par ...

The Economy – What went wrong & What’s next? II
October 31, 2008, 1 Comment

See Part I of this topic/saga ; The evolving bailout plan ; The world after the (bailout) vote 31 October 2008 Reversal ...

A critique of the Food Mile Perspective
October 30, 2008, Comments Off on A critique of the Food Mile Perspective

We are delighted to hear from former (because they moved to Toronto) Wednesday Nighters Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shi ...

Monbiot: The degradation of intelligence and learning in American politics
October 28, 2008, 1 Comment

The Triumph of Ignorance Why morons succeed in U.S. politics (The Guardian) How was it allowed to happen? How did politi ...

Canadian election 2008: Westmount-Ville-Marie
October 24, 2008, Comments Off on Canadian election 2008: Westmount-Ville-Marie

See also Marc Garneau on Wednesday-Night.com Lagacé-Dowson’s orange revolution not over yet Dowson thinks the NDP ...

Wednesday Night #1390
October 22, 2008, 2 Comments

T H E  R E P O R T Maureen Farrow paid an unexpected – and most welcome – visit, contributing immensely to ...

Mort Zuckerman on the Financial Crisis and what we should do
October 22, 2008, Comments Off on Mort Zuckerman on the Financial Crisis and what we should do

The Anatomy of the Financial Crisis and Why We Must Get It Right Everyone is haunted by the fear our financial crisis mi ...

Paul Krugman wins Nobel Prize for economics
October 14, 2008, 1 Comment

An interesting morning The good Krugman Bill Watson in the National Post Despite his political views, free-market econom ...