By Canadian Boat to Gaza, July 1, 2011
CALL TO ACTION
Israel’s Blockade has reached the shores of Europe
We Will Not Let Israel Control Gaza or International Water
The Canadian Boat to Gaza, [...]
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Canadian Boat to Gaza threatened
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Canadian Boat to Gaza’s vessel, the Tahir, is one of several ships attempting peacefully to end Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza. Tahir is a part of Freedom Flotilla II, sponsored by groups from Belgium, Denmark, Australia, United States, France, [...]
Canadian Peace Alliance statement on Afghan detainee files
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Judicial Inquiry NOW!
Release All the Afghan Detainee files
Canadian soldiers guard suspected Taliban prisoners in Northern Kandahar, May 10, 2006. The suspects were subsequently handed over to the Afghan National Police. Photograph by: John D. McHugh/AFP/Getty Images,
By the Canadian Peace Alliance
Despite what John Baird and Peter MacKay said, the release of 4,000 heavily censored files [...]
Freedom Flotilla to sail soon
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Athens, June 23, 2011 — The international “Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human” is ready to sail within the next few days to Gaza expressing its solidarity in action with the Palestinian people.
The international “Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human” will include 10 ships, two of which are cargo boats carrying aid, while the [...]
Canadian delegation takes Abdelrazik case to the UN
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By Project Fly-Home
On June 16th, 2011, a seven-person delegation, acting in solidarity with Abousfian Abdelrazik, met with a representative of the German Mission to the United Nations (Germany currently chairs the 1267-Committee) and representatives of the 1267 Monitoring Team. The delegation travelled to New York to support Abdelrazik’s five-year struggle to have his name removed [...]
Wikileaks, Canada, Iraq & the mainstream media
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In the Wake of Wikileaks:
A Media Critique of Revelations about Canadian Duplicity in Iraq
By Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade and editor of COAT’s magazine Press for Conversion!
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
Mark Twain, Vice President, American Anti-Imperialist [...]
Libya: Diplomacy, not bombs, says Lewis MacKenzie
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NATO’s Libya ‘hope’ strategy is bombing
By Maj.-General (Ret.) Lewis MacKenzie, Globe and Mail, June 10, 2011
We are now in the 84th day of the bombing campaign that the United Nations Security Council authorized to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya in a bid to protect civilians from Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. In a bizarre development, the [...]
Quebec refuses child assistance to Abdelrazik
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31 May 2011, Montreal — Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montreal man whose story of torture and exile became a major scandal for the Canadian government in 2009, was refused child assistance benefits earlier this month. A letter from Québec’s Régie des rentes informed Mr. Abdelrazik that the application on behalf of his two children could not [...]
Stop the extension of the war in Libya
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A Canadian Forces CF-18 fighter jet landing at Birgi NATO airbase in Sicily following a patrol over Libya. Photo: Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters, Postmedia News.
By the Canadian Peace Alliance, May 23, 2011
The Government of Canada is set to renew its support for the NATO led bombing of Libya, as the current three-month mandate expires on [...]
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in perspective
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By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Global Research, May 12, 2011
First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the first time into English. It seems that nearly a million people have already [...]