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Pop art and popular struggle in Palestine

Avatars protest Israeli occupation in Bil’in by Leslie Dreyer, Art Threat, March 4, 2010 Protesters against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the West Bank barrier wall take a more theatrical approach in Bil’in. On February 12, 5 Israeli, Palestinian…

America’s remote-controlled killing fields

Towards America’s Electronic, Troop-less Wars Future U.S Wars will involve Massive Use of Drones A RQ-1 Predator from the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron lands at Tallil Air Base, Iraq on Jan. 20, 2004. (UPI Photo/Suzanne M. Jenkins/AFIE) by Prof. Marc…

Haiti and the Aid Racket

By Ashley Smith, Counterpunch, Feb. 24, 2010 It’s now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the…

No Olympic Truce in Marjah

By the Canadian Peace Alliance, Feb. 19, 2010 While our Prime Minister talks about the the “Olympic Truce”, a symbolic suspension of war during the winter games, the people of Afghanistan are facing a new wave of violence. The official…

Justice for Abousfian Abdelrazik

Project Fly Home has launched a campaign on behalf of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Sudanese-Canadian man who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Sudan in 2003 and prevented by the Canadian government from returning to Canada until last year. Documents obtained…

Obama’s Record War Budget

Will Obama’s Record War Budget Lead to a US Victory in Afghanistan? Don’t Bet On it? by Jack A. Smith, Global Research, February 14, 2010 President Barack Obama has increased the Pentagon’s perennially-bloated annual spending spree to its greatest magnitude…

Europe’s undeclared nuclear powers

Europe’s Five “Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States” Are Turkey, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy Nuclear Powers? U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe • Hans M. Kristensen/Natural Resources Defense Council, 2005 by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, February 12, 2010 According to a…

Civilian deaths anger Iraqis

Al Jazeera English, February 13, 2010 US and Iraqi troops have been accused of killing several civilians during a military operation in Iraq’s Maysan province, on the border with Iran. The troops say they were raiding Iranian-backed fighters and weapons…