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The No Coalition Government Petition

Ask that the opposition parties respect the choice of Canadians and work with the duly elected minority government.

Iraq War Coalition Fatalities

Very interesting...

Canada's government faces an upset

The three parties who failed to win our last election seven weeks ago are attempting to seize power from the Conservative government that won the election. Unless the government is suspended, the new coalition government could be in power as soon as Monday.

Britain owes world £31 trillion

According to the International Coalition for British Reparations, Britain owes the world £31 trillion! If you think they're right, sign the petition.

‘An Intolerable Fraud’

Charities which purport to help the troops are often times the worst charities. Many of them (but not all) are basically scams, collecting vast amounts of money for the people running it and very little for the men and women in the military.

Troops Discover Massive Truck Bomb Disguised As Red Crescent Truck

Coalition forces discovered a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device disguised as a Red Crescent food relief truck in southeastern Mosul Feb. 15.

The truck was labeled with hospital markings but contained eight 55-gallon drums with more than 5,000 pounds of unknown bulk explosives.

Report: 39 secretly imprisoned by U.S.

A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday.

Get A Flu Shot or You're Fired!

The New York State Health Department is now requiring mandatory seasonal and swine flu vaccinations for all hospital, home health and hospice workers. No other state or city agency in America has such a requirement, and a coalition of local health care workers unions are considering filing a lawsuit to block it.

Facebook ban for employers

Not a story about banning employees from accessing Facebook in the workplace, but instead a coalition of children's charities in the UK have called for measures to stop employers and educational establishments from snooping around potential employee/student online profiles.

India selects first female president

Her candidacy was dogged by unprecedented mudslinging from the moment it was agreed upon by coalition members.

Retired chess-master Gary Kasparov is leading a coalition to challenge Vladimir Putin over Russian control

One year into Mr. Putin's presidency, Mr. Kasparov sounded an early warning about a man whose "KGB roots have informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic." Since then, Mr. Kasparov has scarcely let up, retiring from chess in March 2005 in part to devote himself to politics.

Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics

A coalition of graphic artists, publishers and MPs have condemned Government plans to introduce a new set of laws policing cartoons of children, arguing that the current broad wording of the legislation could lead to the banning of hundreds of mainstream comic books.

Musicians protest the volume on Gitmo debate

"The coalition, which counts Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails...is joining a new campaign...."

"Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said loud music has not been used with detainees since the fall of 2003."

Which is coincidentally, a date that also corresponds with the year people stopped giving a shit about the previously-listed bands.

Pakistan's Musharraf steps down

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, facing impeachment on charges drawn up by the governing coalition, has announced that he is resigning.

He went on national TV to say that while he was confident the charges would not stand, this was not the time for more confrontation.

Furor in Italy over "gay nativity" in parliament

Two leftists in Italy's ruling coalition on Wednesday outraged fellow lawmakers by placing four dolls representing homosexual couples near the baby Jesus. (OMG, not "near.")

Making Love not War.

Apparently the group was inspired to enact their own unique sort of protest action by mounting a mattress on the roof of a car and then driving it through the streets of Moscow while copulating after witnessing the Moscow protest action last weekend led by dissident politicians Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Kasynanov as the "Other Russia" coalition. It seems they wanted to emphasize the "make-love-not-war" theme in the most visceral manner possible. [NSFW:nudity, sex]