August 18 to 31, 2005 • No 120

• Ronald McDonald booed; Todd Bertuzzi cheered by Kevin Potvin Vancouver is a changed city. It’s actually starting to get very interesting here.   Near the end of the very pleasantly outrageous conversation, the Howe Street broker was pounding his fist in the air beseeching me to continue advancing the revolution, while his manicured wife cried war whoops. Fight for your cause by Michael Millard Threats to a long-running activist festival test the state of activism today
  	Stop clowning around by Michael Nenonen Clowns are becoming more prominent in popular culture, and that’s bad news.   God is depicted, over and over again, as a cuckolded husband whose "beloved" people have humiliated him by "whoring" after other gods. The myths of the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Armageddon, and Hell show that no punishment is too bizarre or horrible for God to inflict upon the "unfaithful."
  The shifting face of immigration by Kevin Potvin Just as the power structure is radically altered, a question arises: what next? The Iranian line in the sand by Dan Crawford Iranian plans to soon trade oil for Euros will smoke out the true intentions of the US   Iran's stance on their nuclear plans is well justified. Iran has been a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 2003. They have followed all guidelines from the IAEA since then and have given full transparency to their nuclear program.	News from Iraq - US casualty count according to Iraqi media - US helicopter attacks hotel killing 30 A place of possibilities by Kevin Potvin A new United Nations is required to save Iraq and the world. Where could it be built?   The question of Iraq today is at least as urgent a problem as Palestine was, and it ought to be cause enough to re-create the original vision of the United Nations, and then to centre it in the only place on the planet where everyone might today still be welcome to come and talk about this and all other problems.
  Flat Earth Society nominees now in by Andrea Reimer Those who still steadfastly deny the effects of car pollution are getting downright otherworldly   According to a BCAA survey the vast majority of those new car owners say they would reconsider their climate-altering purchase if affordable and convenient transit options were available to them.
  Resist the pull to the centre by Michael Nenonen Canada’s leftwing parties risk losing supporters to religious reactionaries   Following the Scopes “Monkey Trial” in 1925, Christian fundamentalism became an object of ridicule throughout the United States. Feeling persecuted and marginalized, American fundamentalists largely withdrew from the mainstream and created a counterculture, one with its own well-organized academic, media, and social institutions.	Books we're reading this month reviewed by Kevin Potvin The Dust of Empire and The Free Nation Deep in Debt Turner's Movies reviewed by Scott Turner War of the Worlds and Delicatessen Letters to the Republic
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