This is from back in February, but is related to a recent post i made on the Propagandhi site about Ralph Nader. I could not have said it better myself: Hedges on Nader

I initially began composing this here text chunk while sitting in a Super 8 in Topeka, KS. Alas, sitting in a van, hocking books and other wares, and impromptu parking lot football games got the better of my time. So it sat as a "draft", neglected, lonely, starved for human contact. Oh wait, that was me. The blog post was just fine. Now G7's Great Eastward Expansion has been completed, and I sit here in Halifax, NS. What the hell am I doing out here you ask? Well, mainly fielding calls from the immediate neighbours to G7's Winnipeg office, in which I am asked to come back and put an end to the 18-hour drunken sex orgies they have to hear coming out of the Albert Street office thrice weekly. (I did speak to Chris, and he promises to stop renting those DVDs.) Anyhoo, as a new Haligonian, I will point out that I would like to please see the sunlight soon. Also, that there are a great number of events happening here this week around the Atlantica Conference happening Thursday through Saturday. If you haven't heard of Atlantica (which I hadn't until I got here), it's basically a mini-NAFTA for the Northeast. You can read more about it on the Stop Atlantica site. Events scheduled include a town hall meeting tonight (Wednesday), and workshops, demos, a critical mass, and more throughout the week. Get the full dealio on the Resist Atlantica website. (Even though I am, as a rule, skeptical of any event which notes that "costumes are encouraged". I am also a prick.)

The name William Blum may be familiar to some of you, if not for his contributions to Propagandhi records then perhaps for his unsolicited and hilariously surreal endorsement from one Osama Bin Laden. Mr. Blum is the author of the Anti-Empire Report, a monthly (give or take a month) dressing ...

Just came across a must-read piece on the threat of mass extinction by Julia Whitty in the Independent (reprinted from Mother Jones). We now understand that the majority of life on Earth has never been - and will never be - known to us. In a staggering forecast, [eminent Harvard biologist ...

... but this article I found on AlterNet today is interesting nonetheless. Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen talk about the media's collective silence (in the tributes that pop up around this time every year) regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s activities following the passage of the civil rights acts in ...