December 2009/January 2010 CCPA Monitor

The recent 52-page edition of the CCPA’s journal, The CCPA Monitor, features articles and essays by Naomi Klein, Murray Dobbin, Linda McQuaig, Armine Yalnizyan, and a dozen other topnotch writers on the most current social, economic, political, and environmental issues.

The prolonged Great Recession, the climate change crisis, oil-drilling threats to our water, the “war on terror,” the disastrous consequences of airline deregulation, and key political developments in Canada, Europe, and South America – these and many other issues are explained and exposed.

All 11,000 CCPA members across the country receive their copies of The Monitor 10 times a year. It is available only to our members, and only a few sample articles from each issue are posted on our website. Click here to join the Centre today.

Here is the Table of Contents for the December-January edition:

• Companies plan for the future. Why shouldn’t Governments? By Jeff Noonan
• The Centre holds (editorial)
• The war on “terror” (index)
• Empire of Illusion “must-read” book of 2009 By Ed Finn
• U.S. lawless “war on terror” violates Geneva Conventions By Dinyar Godrej
• Harper gov’t is now the world’s biggest sub-prime lender By Murray Dobbin
• Recession-proof bankers keep on overpaying themselves By Linda McQuaig
• New, dirty gas drilling method threatens drinking water By Joyce Nelson
• Canadian corporations fund Fraser Institute (a list)
• Sudbury, Voisey Bay strikers want secret deal made public – www.labourstart.org
• It’s easier now for other nations to copy bad U.S. policies By Naomi Klein
• Global gender equality list puts Canada 25th in 2009 World Economic Forum
• Rhyme & Reason: Lepanto G.K. Chesterton.
• Concerned citizens must get active to avert catastrophe By Philip Symons
• We must air our desire for justice, our outrage at injustice By Madeleine Bunting
• Humankind shares a common fate on an overcrowded planet By Warren Allmand
• The Regina Manifesto still relevant, could be written today By Armine Yalnizyan
• Harper must please both friends and foes to get a majority By Ellen Russell
• Buzz Hargrove analyzes our economic ills – and prescribes remedies - Book review by Roy LaBerge
• Parliament is where the potential for change must be tapped By John Courtneidge
• Recession poses big challenges for public sector unions By Sam Gindin
• Ecological dergradation, continued much longer, will doom us By Bob Harrington
• The Bolivarian Revolution gives real power to the people By Asad Ismi
• Venezuelans now have high levels of health care and literacy By Julio Chavez
• Post-secondary education should be made more accessible By Nick Falvo
• Airline industry deregulation a disaster for travellers, workers By Sean Smith
• The Buy-American sellout: Proposed procurement deal bad for provincial, local gov’ts By Scott Sinclair