By Theodora Filis
UPDATED Research for this article began when I was asked to be a guest on China Radio’s Today on Beyond Beijing contributing to their panel discussion on cloned meats. I was honored, but cloned meats? What did I know about cloned meats? Nothing, and apparently, I wasn’t alone.
Kept in the dark would be [...]

by Robert Reich
When I was a small boy at the start of the 1950s, my father gave me my first economics lesson. “Bobby,” he said with obvious concern, “you and your children and your children’s children will be repaying the national debt created by Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
I didn’t know what a national debt was, but [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper always swore he had no interest in changing Canada’s pro-choice laws and abortion availability. But in recent days, he revealed his true, anti-choice, hard right, nature.
–by Charley James
Ever since bursting onto the national stage in 2004 as the newly-minted leader of Canada’s Conservative Party – itself a newly-minted marriage [...]

By Denis Campbell
In three months the UK will contest a general election. Wow! Can you feel the tension build… Zzzzzzzz.
Three months out from November of 2008, US candidate Barack Obama spoke before 85,000 people at the Democratic National Convention’s outdoor football stadium. Here? The three parties reluctantly and finally agreed to their set of televised [...]

by Charley James
For as long as anyone can remember, Canada has been the world’s warm-hearted, generous friend.
When Mao’s millions were on the long march, Canadian physician Dr. Norman Bethune went to China to care for the sick, wounded and disabled making the trek, regardless of their politics. Because British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery used Canadian [...]

By Denis Campbell
Many read my article on how the Mind Body Spirit world is established to financially hook one into spending lots of money. Now the industry’s tactics have expanded into luring former US Presidents into pimping, errr fronting for them.
George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States has passed on the Council [...]

by Charley James
At the end of the state funeral for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on October 3, 2000, official mourners were milling about in front of Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. Cuban president Fidel Castro stepped over to Jimmy Carter to ask a serious political question:
What did Carter think of using the love of baseball shared [...]

(Reprise article)
(Pictured L to  R: Jim March, Bill Risner, John R. Brakey of AUDIT AZ)
 Millions will soon begin early voting in the General Election. Nearly half of all US counties will use Diebold GEMS tabulation system. Election officials have the ability to print off complete election summary reports throughout voting as ballots come in. This [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
We’ve celebrated for 2½ weeks and what better way to remember Jack Kennedy on this solemn day than to watch President-elect Obama’s deliberate, studious and principled leadership in action. The hard work began precisely at 11:00 pm on 04 November, healing our land and cleaning up our reputation in the world, after the [...]

by Charley James
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the Iraq War at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul yesterday, and all but a tiny handful of them were peaceful. Yet I had American cable TV and radio news on all day but only BBC World carried anything about the protests.
Instead, what cable’s bloviators [...]