February 19 to March 3, 2004 •  No 82

• The Haitian crisis: A replay of Venezuela?
  Violence erupted across Haiti in anti-government protests last week. Or were those pro-government rallies?
  by L Jara Diaz

• Revenge of the neo-conservatives
  The political philosophy that has gripped the White House has long festered on campuses in both the United States and Canada
  by Shadia Drury

• Who the hell do they think they are?
  There is much to learn from the occupation resistance in Iraq that is successfully pinning down history's most powerful military, and keeping it from its planned global blitzkrieg.
  by Kevin Potvin

• Will Oprah go bananas?
  The inexpensive yellow-skinned fruit that is at the centre of the latest novel promoted by Oprah Winfrey is also at the centre of a socially debilitating industry. Will the novel turn people on to "fair trade" bananas?
  by Chris LaVigne

• The Culture Wars become the Flower Wars
  Social conservatives, Aztecs being the most extreme example, need to confront the source of their pain, or they will continue to inflict it on the weakest around them
  by Michael Nenonen

• Japan's seamy underbelly
  Natsuo Kirino's Out gives us a taste of the real, and hidden, depravity of Japan, and the truth that resides inside globalism
  by Jennifer Matsui

• Opium Wars rejoined
  The seriously destabilizing trade imbalance brought on by insatiable American imports of cheap Chinese goods won't be easy to defuse, given past Chinese experience with the methods employed by leaders in the West
  by Kevin Potvin

• Nobody speaks for current system
  How come not a single soul has come out to speak in favour of the at-large system that has resisted change for decades?
  by Matthew Burrows

• Trash talking at Vancouver Council
  Duplicity abounds at the left-leaning COPE council as rifts erupt between Green and Louis
  by Reed Eurchuk

• Momo Presents: I Know What You Said Last Winter
  In the Winter of 2003, four friends, George, Tony, Colin, and Dick, were involved in a massive deception but vowed to keep it a sectret forever. A Year later, the panicked foursome is haunted by those who say.... "I know what you said last winter!"
  a cartoon by Sarah Moser

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  View from the Republic

• Turner's Movies
  The Corporation and Cold Mountain
  reviewed by Scott Turner

• Books we're reading this month
  The Palestinian People; Guns, Germs and Steel; The Cash Nexus; The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
  reviewed by Chris LaVigne and Kevin Potvin

• Letters to the Republic

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