http://www.socialistproject.ca/ Socialist Project - In The News en-ca Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:00 -0400 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:00 -0400 info@socialistproject.ca (SP Websteward) http://www.socialistproject.ca/rss_help.html http://www.socialistproject.ca/images/sp-bannersm.gif http://www.socialistproject.ca/ http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/15/a-summit-to-represent-us Eric Kerl reports on the People's Summit--an event designed to provide an alternative vision to the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.

]]> http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/15/a-summit-to-represent-us Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:00 -0400 http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/arab-left-how-jordan-has-fared The relationship between the working class, the Left, and the pursuit of socialism was a central preoccupation for the assassinated Lebanese leftist intellectual Mahdi Amel.

]]> http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/arab-left-how-jordan-has-fared Wed, 16 May 2012 18:00:00 -0400 http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/15/why-cant-we-afford-what-we-used-to-have/ In this age of austerity, we are constantly told by governments that we have to tighten our belts. Tuition fees have to go up; public pensions, Unemployment Insurance and social assistance benefits have to be cut; universal public health care is no longer affordable, and so on ad nauseam.

]]> http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/15/why-cant-we-afford-what-we-used-to-have/ Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:00 -0400 http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article25207 Socialist Resistance strongly welcomes the stunning vote achieved by Syriza in the Greek elections which put it second in the poll on a solidly anti-austerity platform.

]]> http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article25207 Wed, 16 May 2012 14:30:00 -0400 http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/05/banks-and-derivatives-scam John Kenneth Galbraith famously described financial genius as 'a rising market.' This was on display in the expansionary era of the 1950s and 1960s.

]]> http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/05/banks-and-derivatives-scam Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:00 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/opinion/krugman-why-we-regulate.html One of the characters in the classic 1939 film 'Stagecoach' is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation.

]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/opinion/krugman-why-we-regulate.html Wed, 16 May 2012 10:30:00 -0400 http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/consequences-military-occupation-honduras/10915 Uniformed US soldiers involved in killing of six civilians.

]]> http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/consequences-military-occupation-honduras/10915 Wed, 16 May 2012 02:00:00 -0400 http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2012/grossman150512.html The good news: the Christian Democratic Union of Angela Merkel took a real whipping in the election in North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest German state in terms of population.

]]> http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2012/grossman150512.html Tue, 15 May 2012 19:45:00 -0400 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/architect-of-apartheid Canada's support for Israel has taken many forms, but perhaps its greatest gift has been its example.

]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/architect-of-apartheid Tue, 15 May 2012 18:00:00 -0400 http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/15/quebec-students-stay-defiant In March, Quebec students began a strike against austerity measures imposed by the government of Québec's Liberal Party Premier Jean Charest.

]]> http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/15/quebec-students-stay-defiant Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:00 -0400 http://insideclimatenews.org/node/14818 Long involvement in Canada's tar sands has been central to Koch Industries' evolution and positions the billionaire brothers for a new oil boom.

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