Omar Khadr at age 14 by The Canadian Press Winnipeg Free Press, June 26, 2008 EDMONTON — The U.S. military’s treatment of a Canadian teen detained at Guantanamo Bay violated international laws against torture, the Federal Court has ruled. Judge…
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Who’s actually winning in Iraq?
by Patrick Cockburn Counterpunch, June 26, 2008 The American occupation of Iraq follows the same course as that of British rule after the First World War. At first there was imperial over-confidence following military victory and a conviction that what…
What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
Lost in the System By George Monbiot Published in the Guardian 17th June 2008 . . . Three days before Bush arrived in Britain, the US Supreme Court ruled that the inmates at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to contest their…
American-led war on terror cannot be allowed to spread into Pakistan’s Pashtun tribal area
A Line Not to be Crossed By Eric Margolis Toronto Sun June 15, 2008 The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. air and artillery strikes last week shows just how quickly the American-led war in Afghanistan is spreading into…
Pipeline opens new front in Afghan war
Canadian role in Kandahar may heat up as allies agree on U.S.-backed energy route through land-mine zones and Taliban hot spots SHAWN MCCARTHY From Thursday’s Globe and Mail June 19, 2008 at 2:30 AM EDT OTTAWA — Afghanistan and three…
War commentaries: Afghanistan & Iraq
If you rely on the mainstream media, especially in North America, for your understanding of the battles waged in Iraq or Afghanistan, the most you will get is place names, body counts and sound bites that rarely stray from officially…
We must resist Canada’s descent into militarism
Address to the 2008 Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace by Howard Davidson What we are witnessing and resisting today is Canada’s descent into the pro-war, militarized society that has already occurred in the United States. At every opportunity, the right-wing…
Toronto Star: “Don’t look, don’t tell, troops told”
Civilian sex assaults by Afghan soldiers ignored Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers “to ignore” incidents of sexual assault among the civilian population, says a military chaplain who counsels troops returning home with post-traumatic stress…
“The Power of Nightmares” Unmasks the Politics of Fear
“In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not…
Neither rain, nor . . . rain
Winnipeg’s 27th Annual Walk for Peace took place on a rainy Saturday, June 14, 2008. Marchers called for the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan and expressed their support for American war resisters who have fled to Canada, rather than…