So Dan Rather is biased in favour of the democratic party, which obviously I don’t blame him for, considering I haven’t liked a single republican president or presidential candidate (with the exception of Ron Paul; even though you’re republican, you are a very intelligent man and I support you). This website tries to outline how biased Rather is against Republicans, but actually served to make me appreciate some of what Dan Rather has done. For instance, check out the page about his speeches on courage, they remind me of Ed Murrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow) in some ways. Give this page a look, you might be pleasantly surprised by some of his quotes: http://www.ratherbiased.com/courage.htm

I recently stumbled upon an independent Canadian media co-op called the Dominion Paper, whcih I felt was a solid source for Canadian news, without the big corporate agenda holding it back. Mind you, it seems to have a slightl leftist slant to it, but the writing appears to be qquite solid. In discussing the rising up of many South Americans against capitalism and the wretched state it has left much of the “western” world in, the author comments;

“From an Indigenous point of view, a logical recommendation for socialism for the 21st century is a complete redesign of humanity’s global industrial base. The redesigned industrial base has to abandon both the myth of scarcity and the myth of wilderness, while embracing the reality that humans actually are an integral part of an enormous Super-Being, whom Indigenous folks have long known as Mother Earth.A quick dash back to reality for a moment: we humans aren’t going to voluntarily undertake a task of that magnitude while we are in our current antisocial state of mind. It’s easy to point to the global problems facing humanity and say that our self-induced trauma has shaped us to be the species we are now. The challenging part is imagining the way forward from here.This brings my imagination to the crucial place: the crux of the matter; the originating point. The human vagina. Not being personally endowed with one, and certainly subject to the same forces noted by psychological studies concluding that a man’s imagination goes there at least once every 10 seconds, I realize I’m fair game for criticism.”  The writing is smart, humorous, and feels very human. This is an element that I feel is missing when topics such as capitalism are being discussed, msot of the time, so they are quite a welcome addition to the conversation. Here’s the link to the webpage’s main page:

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/

and here’s another to the article I quoted from:

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2742