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Engler: Haiti Debt
Znet Article, January, 12 2005
Yves Engler
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Last Thursday the World Bank announced it would release $73 million in cash to Haiti’s government of Gerard Latortue that was installed by foreign powers after elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from office. For Haiti to g...
Engler: Canadian Media on Haiti
Znet Article, November, 05 2004
Yves Engler
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Haiti's a mess. That's about as much we get from Canada's dominant media. The media have been unable to correctly articulate which Haitian constituency has played the larger role in the country's on-going destruction. And, of crucial importance, ...
Engler: RNC Report
Znet Article, September, 07 2004
Yves Engler
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Last week I took an activist-organized bus from Montreal down to the Republican National Convention protests in New York City. Surprisingly, everyone aboard was allowed to cross the border without even stepping off the bus. The only disruption w...
Engler: Status, Health And Stupidity
Znet Article, July, 11 2004
Yves Engler
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U.S. residents are dumber than people living in every other industrialized nation. That conclusion doesn’t come from some left-wing Frenchman or Russian commie or pinko Canadian — it is the logical inference of...
Engler: Driven Crazy
Znet Article, April, 30 2004
Yves Engler
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We've been driven crazy. That's the only possible explanation for the Statistics Canada report this week that Canadians spent $27 billion on car purchases in February, a monthly record. Last week the same government body said car-related spending...
Engler: Car Domination
Znet Article, April, 16 2004
Yves Engler
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What do recent reports about the world’...
Engler: Zero Inflation and the Neoliberal Agenda
Znet Article, February, 23 2004
Yves Engler
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If asked to choose between full employment and constant purchasing power of existing money, most ordinary people would lean towards job creation. That's because almost all of us are dependent on employment for our income. Not so for people with lo...
Engler: Racism in Canada
Znet Article, February, 16 2004
Yves Engler
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Management students at McGill University in Montreal hold an annual dress up winter carnival. This time round the theme was cowboys and Indians and Rastafarians. To get the look, students donned feathered headgear and fake dreadlocks. The cultur...
Engler: Suburban Planning And Public Health
Znet Article, December, 12 2003
Yves Engler
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Today’s biggest public health concern in the advanced capitalist world is fast becoming the rise in obesity. If waist lines continue to expand, the life expectancy of current generations may actually fall into decline, an occurence unseen ...
Engler: Empire Or Africa
Znet Article, November, 16 2003
Yves Engler
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While on a visit to the U.S, last week, Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni paid visit to the halls of the Wall Street Journal. Thursday, a piece submitted by the President appeared in the Journal’s pages and Friday the editorial board sang...
Engler: Jobless Recovery?
Znet Article, October, 02 2003
Yves Engler
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yves engler Shouldn’t people’s ability to find work be central to any economy? Isn’t the point of an economy all about fulfilling human needs, one of which is meaningful work? Not according to today’s monet...
Engler: Cancun Lessons
Znet Article, September, 21 2003
Yves Engler
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Cancun Lessons
Engler: Student Activism
Znet Article, September, 15 2003
Yves Engler
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I’m beginning to think major corporate interests really do dislike student activism. While that may sound obvious to some, I was genuinely surprised last Wednesday night when eight Montreal police officers dragged me from a Concordia Stud...
Engler: Health vs. Profits
Znet Article, September, 06 2003
Yves Engler
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Like milk and coke, healthcare and the profit motive just shouldn’t be mixed. The American health system demonstrates just how expensive, unjust and inefficient capitalist medicine is. Two weeks ago the New England Journ...
Engler: Capitalist Contradictions
Znet Article, August, 30 2003
Yves Engler
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As World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun draw nearer and the voices of capitalist globalization grow louder, now may be a good time to analyze their ideology with an eye to what modern capitalism is really all about. Advocates of ?globali...
Engler: WTO's Attack on Public Education
Znet Article, August, 10 2003
Yves Engler
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This week student organizations from around the world came together for a conference at the University of Montreal to discuss “globalization’s†negative effects on post-secondary education. As a result, organizers are ca...
Engler: Reports Of Our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Znet Article, July, 26 2003
Yves Engler
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Only six weeks after Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew pronounced ìI draw great satisfaction out of the fact that the phenomenon of anti-globalization has completely disappearedî (1) MontrealÃs Queen Elizabeth hotel canceled its booking ...
Engler: Capitalism Ruins Public Health
Znet Article, July, 18 2003
Yves Engler
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Last Thursday U.S. Medicare officials followed the lead of a number of U.S.corporations and announced a plan to pay bonuses for better care. A few months back a group of major corporations including General Electric, Ford and others launched a pil...
Engler: Profits Not Patients
Znet Article, July, 13 2003
Yves Engler
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Two weeks ago both the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times ran front page articles about accussations against Medco, a subsidiary of Merck & Co. over false statements and claims to the government. This is in addition to investigations of Medco...
Engler: Markets=Famine
Znet Article, July, 08 2003
Yves Engler
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If the western mainstream media told the truth about Africa, stories in our newspapers would be much different. "Market ideology causes Ethiopian Famine," the New York Times headline would blare. "130 years running and imperialists still mix wi...
Engler: G8 And Africa
Znet Article, June, 06 2003
Yves Engler
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Sickening is the best word to describe the hypocrisy between what G7 nations do and say with regards to Africa. Last summer, the Canadian media was abuzz with reports on how Canada and the rest of the G7 were going to help Africa. Before the G8 me...
Engler: Capital's Logic, People Resisting
Znet Article, May, 30 2003
Yves Engler
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Capital's Logic, People Resisting
Engler: A Movement for Workplace Democracy?
Znet Article, March, 11 2003
Yves Engler
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Last week we learned about another hit to democracy. This time, however, it wasn't Bush coercing some government to join his war-drive against the will of that country's people. Instead, it was another drop in the U.S. unionization rate. Accordi...
Engler: The March 5 Student Actions Against War
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Yves Engler
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On February 20th in Montreal the Student Society of McGill University had its first-ever successful general assembly. What was it that brought hundreds of McGill students together? A desire to hold a campus-wide strike against the pending war in I...
