Evidence of Taliban Peace Initiatives in 2002 By Gareth Porter, Counterpunch, Feb. 8, 2011 The central justification of the U.S.-NATO war against the Afghan Taliban – that the Taliban would allow al Qaeda to return to Afghanistan – has been…
Category: International
My Return to Haiti
A profit-driven recovery plan cannot reconstruct my country By Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Counterpunch, Feb. 4-6, 2011 Haiti’s devastating earthquake in January last year destroyed up to 5,000 schools and 80% of the country’s already weak university infrastructure. The primary school in…
WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles
By Tim Ross, Holly Watt and Christopher Hope, The Telegraph, Feb. 2, 2011 The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret “star wars” arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained…
The protest movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Jan. 29, 2011 The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World? “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true…
Egypt: And then everything changed…
By Murray Dobbin, rabble.ca, Jan. 31, 2011 The photographs are as stunning as they are inspiring. The world is now totally focused on the democratic rebellion in Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak, the dictator who Israel relies on for its current…
Revival of a Military Option: Israel’s Covert War Against Iran Is On
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Global Research, January 26, 2011 After talks in Istanbul between Iran and the West on its nuclear program broke down on January 22, the danger of revival of a military option looms large. It may not come…
The Palestine Papers
By Gregg Carlstrom, Al Jazeera, Jan. 23, 2011 Over the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages…
Gaza and Israel: Canada’s double standards
By Yves Engler, Electronic Intifada, Jan. 13, 2011 Canada’s tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there’s nothing that can be done about it. In June of last year, Guelph activist Dan…
Haiti – another year older and deeper in misery
The International Community and Haiti a Year Later: The Failure of an Imperial Trusteeship By Alex Dupuy, Canada-Haiti Action Network, Jan. 10, 2011 The international community responded immediately and massively to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12,…
Even lost wars make corporations rich
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Jan. 10, 2011 Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary…