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The kidnapping of Haiti

Jan. 20, 2010: A young boy keeps his eyes on soldiers of the U.S. 82 Airborne Division outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post By John Pilger, Jan. 28, 2010 The theft of Haiti has…

Aboriginal Nations Benefit Concert for Haiti

MMF President David Chartrand, along with MKO Grand Chief David Harper, SCO Grand Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo, AMC Grand Chief Ron Evans, NCI FM and APTN National News will host the Aboriginal Nations for Haitians Benefit Concert to raise much-needed…

War poisoned Iraq

Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds • Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites • Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report By Martin Chulov, The Guardian, Jan. 22, 2010 Map: Toxic…

U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow

by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 20, 2010 Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China’s (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for…

Gaza – The Cost of War

By Al Jazeera English, Jan. 20, 2010 The Cost of War examines the longer term legacy of Israel’s war on Gaza. By following characters associated with buildings that were targeted in the war, the film explores the humanitarian and economic…

Haiti, hell and hypocrisy

by Paul S. Graham I cringe when I hear folks like Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon use the word “solidarity” in the same breath as “Haiti.” I’m all for solidarity with the Haitian people, but when it is expressed by…

Humanitarian relief urgently needed in Haiti, not militarization of aid

by the Canadian Peace Alliance The Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) urges its member organizations and supporters to give generously to the relief efforts responding to the catastrophic disaster in Haiti following last week’s massive earthquake. The CPA also wishes to…