By Ashley Smith, Counterpunch, Feb. 24, 2010 It’s now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the…
Chossudovsky: US will start WW3 by attacking Iran
By Russia Today, Feb. 19, 2010 A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel…
No Olympic Truce in Marjah
By the Canadian Peace Alliance, Feb. 19, 2010 While our Prime Minister talks about the the “Olympic Truce”, a symbolic suspension of war during the winter games, the people of Afghanistan are facing a new wave of violence. The official…
Justice for Abousfian Abdelrazik
Project Fly Home has launched a campaign on behalf of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Sudanese-Canadian man who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Sudan in 2003 and prevented by the Canadian government from returning to Canada until last year. Documents obtained…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg endorses “Bush to the Hague” campaign
An international campaign is underway to bring to trial former U.S. president George W. Bush and some of his senior officials. On January 19, 2010, Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A.…
Obama’s Record War Budget
Will Obama’s Record War Budget Lead to a US Victory in Afghanistan? Don’t Bet On it? by Jack A. Smith, Global Research, February 14, 2010 President Barack Obama has increased the Pentagon’s perennially-bloated annual spending spree to its greatest magnitude…