Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined with the Provincial Council of Women of Manitoba, the University Women’s Club of Winnipeg and the Council of Women to host an all-candidates forum in the constituency of Kildonan St-Paul. The candidates in the riding are…
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Secrets of Iraq’s death chamber
Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government’s high-security detention centre in Baghdad. by Robert Fisk, The Independent, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the…
Talking with the Taliban
Click here for part 2 of this Al Jazeera Inside Story report on the beginnings of peace negotiations in Afghanistan. Negotiated peace takes tentative step Former Taliban envoy describes meeting on Afghanistan as an ‘icebreaker’ Peter Goodspeed, National Post Published:…
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan
BOOK REVIEW ‘We blew her to pieces’ Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan by Aaron Glantz Reviewed by Dahr Jamail Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the United States military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves.…
All Candidates Town Hall Meeting: Kildonan-St. Paul
What: Kildonan-St. Paul All Candidates Town Hall When: Monday, October 6 Where: Red River Community Centre, 293 Murray Road at Main (north of Chief Peguis Trail) When: 7 pm to 9 pm Moderator: Terry McLeod, CBC Information Radio Candidates –…
Canada’s $7 billion war
Canada’s seven billion dollar war: The cost of Canadian forces operations in Afghanistan International Journal, Summer 2008 by David Perry In March 2008, parliament voted to extend Canadian military operations in Afghanistan through 2011. By July of that year, roughly…
Canada’s Afghan Torture Inquiry To Go Ahead
THE AFGHAN MISSION: PRISONER TRANSFER Defiant military watchdog widens inquiry Report calls for hearings into alleged handover of detainees to torturers; top officers could be forced to testify by PAUL KORING Globe and Mail, October 1, 2008 The Harper government’s…
Peace and Democracy for Afghanistan
by John W. Warnock Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Republished with permission. On September 12, 2001, the government of Jean Chrétien pledged Canada’s full support to any action by the U.S. government to confront the al-Qaeda organization and the Taliban…
British diplomat feels Afghan war being lost: report
Story cites leaked cable from France’s deputy ambassador in Kabul CBC News, Oct. 1, 2008 A French newspaper has published what appears to be a diplomatic cable saying Britain’s ambassador to Kabul thinks the West is losing the battle for…
Afghanistan: Why we fight . . .
Afghanistan Challenges for the Corruption Cup by Paul Graham Competition for the coveted Corruption Cup is intense, but Afghanistan is proving itself to be a real competitor. And what, pray tell, is the Corruption Cup? Mainly a figment of my…