Finance

The big stinking steaming heap of debt

By Reed Eurchuk

The US housing market collapse and the international credit crunch it has spawned

Media

When traffic isn’t traffic

By Eric Doherty

Expanded highways and roadways move more cars, unless you want to hear that they move less cars

Media

2007 on YouTube

Tavis W Dodds

The Indie media phenomenon did a pretty good job last year

Politics

Public opinion is king

By Kevin Potvin

And that’s why the all media is necessarily engaged in partisan battle all the time

War & peace

The imbeciles who plan war on Iran

By Michael Nenonen

Neo-conservatives like John Bolton might actually believe what they say, a more dangerous scenario than if they were merely deceptive

Fiction

The Deadline: Chapter 17

By Mats Vizarof

A start, perhaps?

Film

Turner's Movies

The Orphanage

Arsène Lupin

Letters

Quotes of the week

Anyone who raises their fist in this country will experience the combined resistance of the entire civil society of this republic.

Roland Koch, Christian Democratic premier of Hesse, a German province, in a speech promising a crackdown on crime perpetrated by immigrants

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Past Issue • December 6, 2007 to January 16, 2007  •  No 179

Nukes

Iraq, Iran nuclear plans were never about Israel or the US

By Kevin Potvin

Now that US intelligence admits Tehran abandoned nuclear arms years ago, they still trying taking credit for the policy change

Protest

Public protest works in China, so why not here?

By Kevin Potvin

Chinese authorities agree to new corporate regulations to serve workers better after the public protests loudly, while BC authorities bribe and abuse workers in lieu of any local action

Sports

This is the NHL on drugs

By Kevin Potvin

Revelations of widespread steroid use in professional baseball casts the light back on professional hockey, still in denial

Society

Oh, they’re listening alright

By Michael Nenonen

It’s no wonder some kids grow up traumatized, and show the results in how they treat their kids

Course

Introduction to Small Publishing

by Kevin Potvin

Republic workshop course will show you how to inject your own opinions into the normally closed and exclusive world of print media

Fiction

The Deadline: Chapter 16

By Mats Vizarof

Another plot foiled!

Film

Turner's Movies

Touchez Pas la Hache

No Country for Old Men

Letters

Quotes of the week

One of the Holy Grails of social science is the degree to which taste determines friendship, or to which friendship determines taste.

Jason Kaufman, Harvard, regarding his major study of Facebook friendship patterns

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