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div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/John%20Bonnar%20audio%20blog%20100x100%20copy.jpg" alt="John Bonnar Audio Blog" title="John Bonnar Audio Blog" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-7711 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//aa href="/category/bios/john-bonnar" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/john%20bonnar.jpg" alt="John Bonnar" title="John Bonnar" width="70" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-5752 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/allan.jpg" alt="" title="Allan Sheppard Sr held a press conference Thursday in Toronto. Photo: John Bonnar " width="120" height="139" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pstrongListen to the entire press conference including the Q amp; A session with the media./strong/p pOn Thursday, Allan Sheppard Sr. met with members of the media to give a short statement and raise serious questions and concerns about the handling of his son’s case by Special Prosecutor Peck and his Toronto agent./p pstrongFrom the press release:/strong/p pDocuments obtained by Mr. Sheppard Sr. directly or significantly contradict and raise questions about Special Prosecutor Peck’s explanation of his decision to drop charges. Key evidence used by Peck is inaccessible under Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/9313/allansh.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=79106489"allansh.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog/2013/05/slain-cyclists-father-still-has-serious-concerns-about" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=7nQ750PQw2o:e5X-A-3uzG4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/7nQ750PQw2o" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemWhat did Harper know and when did he know it? Our parliamentary reporter looks at this and five other key points in the growing Senate expense scandal.nbsp;/em/p pstrong1. Rules for all Senators "very clear" -- except for Senator Duffy/strong/p pThe Conservative majority on the Senate Committee on Internal Economy said the rules on housing allowances for Senators were "very clear" and "unambiguous."/p pThat is, they were clear and unambiguous for Senators Harb and Brazeau./p pThey were somehow not so clear for Senator Duffy./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/05/six-key-points-understanding-harpers-senate-scandal" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=ZgJQlVfNQ8g:figcU9xiT5U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/ZgJQlVfNQ8g" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pAs every tenant knows, rent is a racket. Landlords charge occupants of their property not according to what improvements they have installed, but to what renters are willing to pay to have a roof over their heads. A famous economist put it like so: a landlord prices property proportioned not "to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give." That economist isn't Karl Marx -- it's Adam Smith in emThe Wealth of Nations./em/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-stewart/2013/05/rent-its-racket" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=9woGkgMRYvE:Qw_uvwnH928:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/9woGkgMRYvE" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Thursday, May 23, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Notwithstanding the intervention of the Constitutional Court, the genocide trial against former dictator Rios Montt is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. /div /div /div pHope and spirit persist, even when the struggle for truth, justice, fairness and equality is so hard, suffers so many setbacks and takes so many years to achieve even small steps forward.nbsp; When confronted with yet another set-back in the work and struggle for truth and justice, people often ask how does one keep their hopes and spirits up?/p pThis article is about people suffering, surviving and living in the aftermath of the genocides in Guatemala, and how they keep their sights on truth and justice, beyond the cruelty and oppression that so devastated them.nbsp; It includes a short story about a tenacious and collective struggle of red ants in Chichipate, Guatemala./p pstrongThe genocide trialnbsp;/strong/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/rios-montt-1.jpg" alt="Photo: DemocracyNow.org " title="Photo: DemocracyNow.org " width="120" height="68" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/after-genocide-trial-long-struggle-justice-continues-guatemala" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=xd0YJR4DA_E:-1kiUTOdSBA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/xd0YJR4DA_E" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Thursday, May 23, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" With Vancouver#039;s condo-friendly landlords seeing dollar signs and not the public good, the fight for community venues seems much more like class war. /div /div /div pIt appears that since a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/02/waldorf-w2-vancouvers-disappearing-arts-and-community-spaces"I've last touched on community spaces/a and their inherent importance, the snowball effect known as gentrification has intensified rendering much of the arts and culture in this city on their toes./p pWith a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/bound-not-gagged/2013/05/collateral-damage-spartacus-books-fight-against-vancouvers-i"Spartacus Books/a (now un-evicted!), VIVO Media Arts, COPE and Gen Why Media all facing the consequence of condo-friendly landlords seeing dollar signs and not the public good, the fight for community venues in Vancouver seems much more like class war./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/social-space-in-tree2.jpg" alt="The Purple Thistle#039;s logo. " title="The Purple Thistle#039;s logo. " width="120" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/social-spaces-vancouver-changing-conversation" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=vweTus-PYJM:7DNoj2S_HO4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/vweTus-PYJM" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pOn May 17, the Council of Canadians hosted a live broadcast from Lima where trade justice activists were attending a 17th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that continue in the Peruvian capital this week. The online broadcast, viewable at the link below, was an opportunity for people around the world to tap into the frontline of resistance to the TPP -- the latest and possibly largest corporate attack on democracy, workers, farmers, public services, the earth, and access to affordable medicines./p pSpeakers included:/p pstrong- Emma Gomez/strong of Cooperaccion, a Peruvian mining justice organization that co-organized a peoples' conference and protest against the TPP last Friday./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/05/briefing-frontlines-resistance-to-tpp-negotiations-lima-per" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=RmWTvmnW_g4:g6yVOkplKk8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/RmWTvmnW_g4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThere are numerous controversial gold, silver and copper mining projects driven by Canadian companies in Peru. These mines include Barrick Gold's Pierina gold mine near Mareniyoc, Candente Copper Corp's proposed Cañariaco Norte copper mine in the Lambayeque region, the proposed Conga gold and copper mine in northern Peru, and the proposed open-pit Laguna Sur mine.br / div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2013/05/harper-spins-canadian-mining-peru" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Z2pFYi8pkm4:CAUhUZzB9E8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/Z2pFYi8pkm4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pIf you are familiar with the work of the far right-leaning Fraser Institute, you'll hardly be surprised when I write that their latest piece of "research" is full of deceit./p pThe Fraser Institute claims to examine the Swedish health-care system and in the end concludes that Canada should scrap the Canada Health Act and privatize, privatize, privatize -- no surprise. In a particularly fascinating move, the Fraser Institute compares financial expenditures in both health-care systems and promotes the most expensive methods as a cost-saving measure in Canada -- huh?/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/05/follow-sweden-on-health-care-did-fraser-institute-finally-g" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Wr3x4MFE-FQ:x2FrkSTH6KU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/Wr3x4MFE-FQ" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pAs I write, it has been just a few days since the provincial election. As was the case for most of you, the result was unexpected. We are still processing what it means for our work and rethinking some of our research plans./p pFor those of us who engage in deep thinking about policy ideas, this election felt very shallow. It makes us question the value of careful and thoughtful policy development. Does the work of a research institute like ours even matter when so many political debates seem to unfold "fact-free"?/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/policynote/2013/05/lessons-2013-bc-election-whats-progressive-research-institute-to-d" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=h4EotKd7ykk:dKuS18qW7Iw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/h4EotKd7ykk" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/taxonomy/term/2697" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/amy_small_0.jpg" alt="Amy Goodman" title="Amy Goodman" width="80" height="94" class="taxonomy-image-term-2697 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"May 23, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg" alt="image/jpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/node-images/war_1.jpg" type="image/jpeg; length=122349" title="war.jpg"Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Señor Lebowski - 1, 2, Tim Dorr/a/div /div /div /div pIn a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at "The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force." The 2001 AUMF is the act passed by Congress on Sept. 14, three days after the al-Qaida attacks on the United States./p pSen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, opened his questioning of the military officials before him by stating: "Gentlemen, I've only been here five months, but this is the most astounding and most astoundingly disturbing hearing that I've been to since I've been here. You guys have essentially rewritten the Constitution here today."/pdiv class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Close to 12 years later, the 2001 AUMF act remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations and to kill people with drones. /div /div /div fieldset class="fieldgroup group-related-items"div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item1" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/01/film-pulls-back-curtain-obamas-dirty-wars" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Film pulls back curtain on Obama#039;s #039;Dirty Wars#039; /a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item1-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The documentary film Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield exposes the Obama administration#039;s threatre of war and hears from people who live at the target end of U.S. foreign policy. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item2" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplan/2012/07/obamas-drone-attacks-and-tuesday-death-club"Obama#039;s drone attacks and Tuesday death club /a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item2-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" According to the American Civil Liberties Union, an estimated 4,000 people have been killed in U.S. drone strikes since 2002 in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/01/interview-robert-fisk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Covering the #039;war on terror#039;: In conversation with Robert Fisk/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item3-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Fisk#039;s beat, when it comes down to it, is the collateral damage of what he calls quot;the unnecessaryquot; war on terror, waged in Washington, Ottawa, London, Paris, Moscow, etc. /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/under-obama-administration-world-battlefield" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=pL9d23Av-wE:UI7N7EWKEaI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/pL9d23Av-wE" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-image field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/380x275-front-multimedia/node-images/3946607810_fce574e74a.jpg"/div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"Democracy Watch argues that a proper public inquiry will be required. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-connected-story" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"a href="/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/05/six-key-points-understanding-harpers-senate-scandal"Six key points for understanding Harper#039;s Senate scandal/a/div /div /divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=eA3TG6ybe_Q:CPOq_V_agrE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/eA3TG6ybe_Q" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Thursday, May 23, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to quot;take back the food supply,quot; in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday. /div /div /div pTens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday./p pNews of the event has gone viral as environmentalists and others opposed to the rampant spread of genetically modified (GM) crops have planned overnbsp;a href="http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"400 events/anbsp;in more than 45 countries. In the United States, actions in 47 states are slated to occur simultaneously./p p"Our website is averaging over 40,000 visitors a day and our Facebook page has reached over 10,000,000 people in the last 7 days," the organizers wrote on theirnbsp;a href="http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"website/anbsp;Tuesday./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/monsanto_banner.jpg" alt="" title="" width="120" height="46" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/march-against-monsanto-global-day-action-to-take-back-food-supply" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=os5JYLIl7Gk:J1jaL6VWsyE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/os5JYLIl7Gk" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemOh dear!/em/p pPoor old Tubby Black, welcomed back home after his legal difficulties south of the Medicine Line by our ever-tolerant Canadian nation, finds himself once again bellowing ultra-right clichés like a wounded dinosaur./p pIt is almost as if His Lordship is in competition with Ezra Levant for the title of the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bottom" target="_blank" title="Nick Bottom" rel="nofollow"Nick Bottom/a of Canadian Letters -- emBottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!/em -- lovable, but not necessarily for the reasons he imagines./p pAnd right now, emLord Black is clearly in the lead!/em/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2013/05/viva-con-hasta-la-victoria-siempre-con-conrad-%E2%80%93-putting-cross-ba" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=uoilWmbH-EU:b-0liQaT2RE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/uoilWmbH-EU" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/John%20Bonnar%20audio%20blog%20100x100%20copy.jpg" alt="John Bonnar Audio Blog" title="John Bonnar Audio Blog" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-7711 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//aa href="/category/bios/john-bonnar" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/john%20bonnar.jpg" alt="John Bonnar" title="John Bonnar" width="70" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-5752 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divpOn Wednesday evening, nearly 13,000 CAW and CEP members joined a telephone town hall meeting to find out more about the CAW/CEP New Union Project./p pThe call was hosted by CAW president Ken Lewenza and CEP president Dave Coles./p pCallers had an opportunity to ask the two presidents their questions and hear updates about the New Union Project./p pThe Canadian Auto Workers Union and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada are building a new union together./p pstronga href="http://www.newunionproject.ca" rel="nofollow"Click here to learn more about the New Union Project/a/strong/pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/9313/townh.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=72033340"townh.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldsetdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=E6IyR2hJfKc:ry9w--P3wjA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/E6IyR2hJfKc" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Wednesday, May 22, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The culture of collusion around addicts who refuse to even admit they have a problem is a serious concern with anyone in a position of power. /div /div /div pThere are many problems surrounding addiction. And in particular, many problems with active addicts in positions of power./p pBut part of the problem, in the larger picture, goes beyond the addictnbsp;themselves. Another significant component in the issue of addicts in positions of power is enablers./p pThe people who enablenbsp;them, cover up for them and make excuses for them. This culture ofnbsp;collusion around addicts who refuse to even admit they have a problem is a serious concern with anyone in a position of power./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/rob_ford_0_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="120" height="153" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/addiction-enablers-and-rob-ford" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=pdfU92FdHOk:e48jZawc0JQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/pdfU92FdHOk" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pnbsp;Here's Arielle with your Weekly News Update, introducing Our Fair Deal Coalition. International organizations have banded together to advocate for a fair deal to come out of TPP negotiations. As it stands, proposed copyright provisions in the TPP threaten our access to knowledge and would shut down our internet. Raise your voice for a fair deal atnbsp;a href="http://ourfairdeal.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"ourfairdeal.org/a./p div class="read-more"/div /div /divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=4v0y0yws2ac:w87gQ_YtHyQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/4v0y0yws2ac" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThere is lots of talk about what Prime Minister Harper may or may not have known about the $90,000 his chief of staff gave Mike Duffy./p pAlthough it is an open secret that the Prime Minister runs a pretty tightly controlled operation, it is always plausible that his chief of staff might have decided to get involved in the affairs of one Senator without telling the boss./p pBut it doesn't ring true, especially when one considers Duffy's comment about keeping quiet on the "orders of the Prime Minister's Office."/p pWe will likely never get at the bottom of what role the Prime Minister and his office played in this affair./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/05/we-already-have-enough-facts-to-know-harper-true-author-senate" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=cwty3yRsJ80:-HadLRsHAz0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/cwty3yRsJ80" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pstrongBiased, lapdog investigations mean cover-up of Senate scandal most likely outcome and public inquiry will be needed – Wright, Duffy should be found guilty of violating ethics rules, and possibly other laws /strong/p pstrongEthics Commissioner has covered up twice already for Nigel Wright, Senate Ethics Officer is controlled by a Senate committee, Auditor General is failing to do audit, Elections Canada has secret, questionable enforcement record, and even the RCMP’s independence is questionable/strong/p pOTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch set out the details of why biased, lapdog investigations mean that a cover-up of the Senate expenses scandal is the most likely outcome, and why a public inquiry will likely be needed to ensure a full investigation./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/democracy-watch/2013/05/biased-lapdog-investigations-mean-cover-senate-scandal-likely" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qSxEMEtVRCo:LTjpuyc-fNs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/qSxEMEtVRCo" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Wednesday, May 22, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" NDP leader Tom Mulcair said today that an NDP government would work to abolish the Senate. /div /div /div pThomas Mulcair said Wednesday morning that it's time to start a conversation across Canada about abolishing the Senate. The Official Opposition leader called the ongoing Senate expenses scandal a turning point on the issue, "the whitewashing by the Senate was the beginning of the end of the Senate."/p pThe NDP also launched a new website on Wednesday to promote their Senate abolition campaign -- a href="http://rolluptheredcarpet.ca" rel="nofollow"rolluptheredcarpet.ca/anbsp;/p pThe site encourages Canadians to sign a petition for Senate abolition, giving the following rationale for eliminating the upper house of Parliament:nbsp;/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/screen_shot_2013-05-22_at_9.11.12_am.png" alt="" title="The NDP has launched a new website for their Senate abolition campaign. (http://rolluptheredcarpet.ca)" width="120" height="86" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/ndp-launches-new-campaign-to-abolish-senate" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=8Mg-xqzSjk0:nDizAudUSkU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/8Mg-xqzSjk0" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pA broad-based coalition of Peruvian civil society launched a campaign and petition against the Trans-Pacific Partnership last week as a 17th round of TPP negotiations began in the capital city of Lima. The campaign is called "Our Rights are Not Negotiable," or a href="http://www.nonegociable.pe/" rel="nofollow"Not Negotiable/a for short, and targets three areas that should not be part of the TPP negotiations: intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals, intellectual property rights affecting copyright and the Internet, and an investor-to-state dispute process that threatens public health and environmental laws. div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/05/peruvian-campaign-against-tpp-our-rights-are-not-negotiable" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=dWPiNr-Cdc8:VtVpQQW79qs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/dWPiNr-Cdc8" height="1" width="1"/