Eight ships are sailing toward Gaza with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to challenge Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory. In a legal challenge, an Israeli group wonders why chocolate and other foods bound for Gaza are a security risk.…

Photo by Donald M. Jones

MY GRANDMOTHER INEZ used to stuff towels under her bedroom door whenever I came to visit. Steeped in Appalachian folklore, she believed that hoop snakes rolled downhill, that a milk snake would

crawl into a crib to suck the breath from a newborn’s mouth, and that a baby rattlesnake—“three times more poisonous than its mother”—possessed…

The Canadian ‘good banks’ myth

The sorry spectacle of Conservative cabinet ministers flying around the world defending banks from a tax to cover their next, inevitable, meltdown is bad enough.

What is perhaps worse is that it is being largely justified by the perpetuation of the myth that Canada did not have to bail out its banks.

Wrong.

We are, according to the IMF,…

Tell me they are not getting bold about this!

The next time you post an opinion in an online forum or a Facebook group message board, don't be surprised if you get a rebuttal from a federal employee.

The government is looking for ways to monitor online chatter about political issues and correct what it perceives as misinformation.

The move started recently with a pilot project on the East Coast seal hunt. A Toronto-based company called Social…

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I'd like to say thank you to all our members for allowing me to participate in 12.160.

I have built a friendship that will last forever here.

As a result of the wisdom I have gained from so many of you I thank all of you for your great work from research, dedication and commitment, without your sacrifice none of this would have been possible.

I have seen great rise in interest in the truth movement joining through out the…

It has become clearer and clearer the political owned parties are not here to protect the people. Continuous corruption at the highest levels are steering us in to poverty,,,

this is not by accident, but in stealth,,,

We are opposed by a ruthless agenda., .... This system is called fascism.…

In July 1987, during the Iran-Contra Hearings grilling of Oliver North, the American public got a glimpse of “highly sensitive” emergency planning North had been involved in. Ostensibly these were

emergency plans to suspend the American…

Legalize Marijuana: California's Cannabis Choice in 2010

by David Kretzmann