Former holder of the Maclean-Hunter chair in ethics in communication at Ryerson University, founding editor of This Magazine and Globe and Mail columnist since 1991, National Newspaper Award winner Rick Salutin adds his voice to the continuing debate over the recent events in Haiti, providing historical perspective and insight.

Senior attorney for the United States’ Natural Resources Defense Council and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes on the flat-earthers within the Bush Administration who have set about to purge, censor and blacklist scientists and engineers whose work threatens the profits of the Bush administration’s corporate paymasters.
In the December 11th issue of Rolling Stone, Kennedy provides even more supporting documentation for his argument that “George W. Bush will go down in history as America’s worst environmental president.”

CUPE researcher and Haiti activist, Kevin Skerrett, writing in today’s issue of Z-Mag on “George Bush’s coup d’etat in Haiti” focusses on the role of the Canadian government, indicting the Liberals for offering succour to the U.S. and French as their strategy of financial strangulation of the Aristide government led to inevitable regime change.
“Today, in early 2004, the new Martin government is eager to demonstrate its enthusiasm for a renewal of the Canada-US partnership, and the recent crisis in Haiti presented the first significant foreign policy loyalty test for the Prime Minister,” Skerrett opines in his essay’s thoughtful introduction.
Update, March 3rd: also have a look at rabble.ca’s analysis of the coup, and this article, titled “Bush’s Haiti nightmare”, by Salon’s Tim Grieve.

The 10 Most Unreported Stories of 2003: From the ongoing repression of Chechen civilians to the unrelenting violence in Burundi, from the punishing cycles of violence in Somalia to the repression of North Korean refugees in China, and more terrible stories of hurt, when tens of thousands of people are uprooted by brutal wars, and you don’t read or hear a thing about it anywhere, and most certainly not in your local newspaper or on the nightly TV news, this Doctors Without Borders report puts into sad, ironic relief the ludicrous spectacle of Oscar night.