September- October 2004
Thanksgiving: a Native American view
"Land of the Pilgrim's pride"? JACQUELINE KEELER
ATLANTIC
CANADA
Poorly-maintained bridge causes loss of breeding cow
Another casualty of government cutbacks. FRANK MACDONALD
FISHERIES & OCEANS
DFO in the dock. Round III
Judge's decision on dragging: fisheries minister not courts, must protect fish habitat
Disinformation and salmon farming
"There aren't any wild salmon anymore," explained the clerk matter-of-factly. KIM PETERSEN
Disaster at sea
Global warming hits Scottish seabirds. MICHAEL McCARTHY
Whale tourism faces death threat
Study highlights harm done by plastic rubbish, pollution, shipping and NATO naval exercises. ALAN CRAWFORD*
NATIONAL
Why Ehud Barak should never grace the halls of Concordia University
Hate-mongers should
be denied "freedom of speech" argues
YAHYA ABDUL RAHMAN.
THE
WORLD
America marks a horrible "first" in Iraq
Female torturers and
army doctors will "make you last".
Dr. MOHAMED ELMASRY
Haiti:
Canada -- organizers of the invasion and occupation
CHARLES BOYLAN interviews
Haitian activist
Jean Saint-Vil
3rd Anniversary of 9/11
The world suffers
consequences of George W. Bush's "Catastrophic Success". SANDRA L. SMITH
examines the forces in motion inside and outside the US.
The warlords of America
Most of the US's recent
wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry?
The debate between US liberals and conservatives is a fake. JOHN
PILGER
MEDIA
CULPA
Globe & Mail sanitizes genocide
How The Globe noted
the anniversary of the death of Colonel Jeffery Amherst.
SPORTS
AND RECREATION
The Big Boss does not forgive Bobby Fischer
Why the U.S. tried to seize the chess master. VICKY PELÁEZ
BOOKS
A Pretext for War
Disinformation and
Death; 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies by
James Bamford.Reviewed by KIM PETERSEN
LANGUAGE
AND CULTURE
A Halloween story from Archie Neil Chisholm
Sometimes live people are ghosts, and they bring news of things that haven't even happened yet.
Viking site found in Ireland
The discovery of a 1,200-year-old Viking fortress; "the most significant
new find in Viking studies in perhaps a century".