By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec. 6, 2010 Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to…
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Afghanistan: Women remain prisoners
KABUL, 2 December 2010 (IRIN) – Zarghoona* has completed her three-month sentence at a prison in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, but she is not allowed home because no male relative has shown up to guarantee that she will not run…
Dear Minister Melnick
Today Peace Alliance Winnipeg sent a letter to Christine Melnick, Manitoba’s Minister of Water Stewardship, expressing concern over remarks attributed to her in the Winnipeg Jewish Review that indicated it was unacceptable for the Brandon NDP Women’s Association to endorse…
War resister Joshua Key to speak in Winnipeg
Place: McNally-Robinson Booksellers – Grant Park Shopping Centre, 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB War resister and author Joshua Key will speak at McNally Robinson Bookstore in Grant Park to discuss his experiences and his memoir, The Deserter’s Tale. When Private First…
Special forces Afghan probe prompts oversight calls
CBC News, Dec. 1, 2010 There are calls for public oversight of an elite military unit amid allegations that a Canadian soldier was involved in an unlawful killing of an Afghan. Federal politicians and a former member of the military…
War resisters prepare new national campaign
By The War Resisters Support Campaign Over the past few weeks, since the narrow defeat of Bill C-440, the War Resisters Support Campaign has been discussing strategy going forward. The main thing that every supporter needs to know is that…
The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK
The CIA, the Pentagon, and the ‘Peace President’ by Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, Nov. 23, 2010 Just 47 years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This marked the turning of the…
Soldier’s mom protests Afghanistan military extension
By the Canadian Press, Nov. 27, 2010 TORONTO — The mother of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan picketed outside Liberal MP Bob Rae’s office on Saturday to urge the federal Conservative government to bring the troops home next year. Josie…
George Galloway packs the house in Winnipeg
By Paul S. Graham More than 400 people greeted peace and human rights activist George Galloway on Friday evening at Broadway Disciples United Church in Winnipeg. Glenn Michalchuk, chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg, which organized the event, presented Galloway with a gift:…
Canada enlists in America’s permanent war for peace
By Gerald Caplan, Globe and Mail, Nov. 26, 2010 American and NATO troops, including Canadians, will pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 at the latest, unless they don’t. It depends on something but no one knows what that something might…