By Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Over the past weekend hundreds rallied in Gangjeong village in South Korea to protect the rocks and the plant and animal life on Jeju Island that will be…
Screening: White Water, Black Gold
As a forerunner to International Stop the Tar Sands Day (June 18), being marked in countries around the world as a Day of Action to stop the mining of the Alberta Tar Sands, we are proud to present the screening…
NATO continues killing spree in Africa and Asia
By Rick Rozoff, Global Research, May 15, 2011 On May 13 President Barack Obama welcomed North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen to the White House and the two pledged to continue the world’s two major wars, those…
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in perspective
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…
Last WW1 Vet Dies
By Al Jazeera English, May 5, 2011 A significant chapter in military history has ended with the death of the last combat veteran from World War I. Claude ‘Chuckles’ Choules, the last-known male survivor out of more than 70 million…
How the Afghan mission influenced the election
By Carl Meyer, Embassey Magazine, May 4, 2011 While foreign policy was rarely mentioned or discussed during the election campaign, a bold new post-vote thesis is emerging, one in which Liberal support for the unpopular Canadian mission in Afghanistan pushed…