Israel & Palestine: What’s Preventing Peace? A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein Date: Saturday October 17, 2009 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Canadian Mennonite University, Laudamus Auditorium (North Campus), 500 Shaftesbury Blvd Presented by: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle…
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Abousfian Abdelrazik to speak in Winnipeg
Abousfian Abdelrazik meets the press in Montreal on his return to Canada on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Photo: Tatiana Gomez Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009 Time: 5 p.m. Location: Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St. (Bus route 15 to door)…
Lecture: Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland
Reconciliation and Memory: Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland Dr. Paul Arthur is a Professor of Politics and former Director of the Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. He is author of Special Relationships:…
Canada’s complicity in Iraq war
Hostile takeover: Canada’s outsourced war for Iraq’s oil riches By Anthony Fenton, This Magazine, October 2009 issue In March 2008, when the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” marked its fifth anniversary, Canadian media outlets…
Iranian nukes a time-tested boogie man
How to Keep Iran in Check Without War by Gary Sick, The Daily Beast, Sept. 27, 2009 President Eisenhower once remarked to his peripatetic Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “Don’t do something, Foster, just stand there.” From all evidence,…
The real nuclear threat
Iran, nukes and imperial hypocrisy by Paul S. Graham, Sept. 26, 2009 Dale Cummings’ cartoon (left) in today’s Winnipeg Free Press, illustrates the fear-mongering hypocrisy surrounding Iran’s nuclear enrichment program that is being propagated by news media and governments world-wide.…
Blood Minerals – the war in Congo
Making mobile phones uses minerals only available from Congo’s war zone. Is our appetite for the latest electronic gadgets fuelling exploitation in the Congo even threatening the survival of central Africas magnificent gorillas? On the inside of many devices like…
The ghosts of Vietnam haunt Washington
by Eric Margolis, Sept. 22, 2009 As this column predicted a month ago, Afghanistan’s much ballyhooed recent election staged by its foreign occupiers turned out to be a fraud wrapped up in a farce. The election was as phony and…
So, they still think they can win in Afghanistan, eh?
Can U.S. win war the Canadian way? Allan Woods, Toronto Star, Sept. 22, 2009 OTTAWA–Canada is backing calls for an overhaul of the failing Afghan mission, but likely won’t be around to ensure the success of a new strategy that…
Malalai Joya – Afghan MP Calls for Troops out of Afganistan
Malalai Joya is one of the bravest women in Afghanistan. As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan parliament. In May 2007, Joya…