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Israel seals off West Bank
Clinton warns Israel on US ties
Discussion continues in wake of Vancouver Olympic protests
Following the debate and community discussion hosted by rabble.ca last month on the topic of the Vancouver Olympic protests, I was asked to write a short commentary piece. You can read the piece here. For those who have been following this from other parts of the country, it's worth stressing the achievements of all those activists who put in years of work, which include:
Iraqi poll body rejects criticism
German bishop apologises for abuse
Protesters head for Thai capital
Russia to build Indian atomic units
Deadly attacks hit Pakistani city
We can haz democracy
On behalf of the Internet: welcome aboard Mr. Harper!
The Prime Minister's new tricked out YouTube site is hosting a pre-approved, moderated Q&A between the PM and Canadian citizens. This comes on the heels of a budget brought to you by Twitter and Michael Ignatieff's own pre-vetted, realtime chat sessions.
Have our elected representatives suddenly developed an appetite for Web 2.0?
New Chile president vows to rebuild
James Hansen's climate reckoning
In 2009, just before the Copenhagen conference, some scientists working on climate change models at the University of East Anglia were exposed for proposing that some data should be concealed. The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was then widely criticized for predicting the precise year that Himalayan glaciers will disappear without any peer-reviewed evidence.
Civilization costs money: U.S. healthcare, Harper budgets and more
Who counts? In Harper's budget world it isn't women, the environment or indigenous issues. But he counts deficits. And plenty is being counted for the U.S. health care bill but not necessarily what matters - like universal coverage. That said, maybe the progressives have something up their sleeves. Single payer does exist in parts of the bill, if we can only get it to count. And we also serve up some rumours about something Obama might do and if he does, it will be very bad.
Of course we have our feature Below The Fold (News You Might Have Missed)
Episode Nine -- Playing with our food
In this episode, we really get to play with our food. What does MakerCulture have to do with food and how do chefs, artists, farmers and everyday people
interact with their own food? We try to pin point why so many makers have decided to turn to self-reliance and creativity when it comes to their food, rather
than just eating it.
Feature Interviews:
David Berg, artist participant of the Medium: Coffee, Latte Art for Non-Latte Artists event
Meredith Alex, fashion designer who uses food
Chef Don Kumarasinghe, a chef and Olympian fruit carver
John Sinopoli, executive chef at Toronto's "Table 17"
Joseph Watters, executive chef at Taste Restuarant
Announcing the winner of the Not Rex contest
The Not Rexes have spoken and the people have voted. rabble.ca is pleased to present the winner of our Not Rex Murphy Context -- Humberto DaSilva!
Humberto is a union representative and writer born and bred in Toronto. His father and mother, now retired, were respectively a miner and a shopkeeper in their native Portugal.
Yemen seizes Al Jazeera equipment
Weekly Mulch: Politics confuse public perception of climate change
Americans don’t know what to think about climate change anymore. A few years ago, the public more or less trusted the science that said human activity was raising global temperatures, but now that Congress and the Obama administration have hemmed and hawed about climate issues, we’re not longer so sure.
Forty-eight percent of Americans—more of us than ever before—believe that reports of global warming are “generally exaggerated,” according to a new Gallup poll. Climate science hasn’t changed, so it’s not crazy to look at these numbers and think that conservatives’ incessant critiques of climate change may be working.
A perfect political storm
Israel seals off occupied West Bank
Avatar and the politics of our time
Judge Instructs Fed Agencies to Resume ACORN Funding
A federal judge has reaffirmed her earlier ruling blocking the congressional effort to defund the anti-poverty group ACORN. On Wednesday, Judge Nina Gershon cemented a decision from last year that such action amounted to an unconstitutional “bill of attainder.” Judge Gershon has asked all federal agencies to allow ACORN funding without delay. We speak with National Housing Institute president John Atlas, author of Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America’s Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Group. [includes rush transcript]


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