Our purpose is to provide a monthly news digest of events in the successor republics of the former USSR, and of related events on a worldwide scale. Such news will be gleaned from far and wide, of European, Asian and North and South American publications. It is our aim to exchange publications wherever possible, including in former USSR. As we present our "News Digest" to you, we will offer brief, and we hope, pointed comment.

We have undertaken this because we are deeply aware that there simply does not exist now any coverage of the world shattering events arising from the dissolution of the former USSR that is not almost universally very hostile, rampantly confusing and widely pro-status quo and supportive of the so-called "New World Order" of Bush, the "Group of 7" and the Gorbachev-Yeltsin betrayal.

Such news (if it can be called news) promotes the worldwide aims and fortunes of transnational finance and industrial capital. To the best of our limited abilities, we will seek to provide an antidote, (perhaps even enema) to this struggle and expose "the other side" of the news… or some of the multiple sides of the news.

We are aware that you might not accept or sympathize with our views if you have accepted the wide-spread notions spread about on every side, that only monopoly capitalism, under the guise of the odious "free market economy" clap trap, has and will continue to provide humanity with "the best of all possible worlds."

Our view is that these transnational corporate forces would have us all entering some kind of new "dark ages" of war, political and economic dictatorships, crisis and social and cultural backwardness. For evidence, we invite you to view the wreckages of states; the current wars and catastrophes, including the ecology of our planet; the destabilizations and wiping out of democratic rights on world-wide basis, and particularly among the majority in the under developed world. Not to be forgotten is the very possible "balkanization" of our own beloved Canada.

It is with growing alarm, therefore, that we seek to establish this one tiny "gleam of light" in the foreboding darkness of corporate domination and unaccountability, to nothing but their profit line.

Who are we? We speak independently of any political party or formation in this or any other country. We are non-partisan and we have no hidden agenda. There are Communists among us, and there are non-Communists as well. There are among us deeply held religious commitments. Each in turn receives the same respect and gives voice on an equal and democratic basis. We believe that "by honest differences of opinion we shall arrive at sound conclusions."

But we are united in our total disagreement with those who insist that only by "privatization" and the total domination of individuals, nations, resources, technologies, social and physical sciences and development by transnational corporate power, can our species survive and prosper. We hold precise opposite view to be the road ahead, with the powers of the "corporate" monsters curtailed and controlled, or if necessary, eradicated!

To the extent that you find our work acceptable, to that extent we will succeed.