House of pain: Canada’s connection with Kandahar’s ruthless palace guard By Graeme Smith, Globe and Mail, April 10, 2010 To the Canadian soldiers who worked with them on a daily basis, the members of Brigade 888 were trusted allies, protecting…
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Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late
By Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t, April 13, 2010 The WikiLeaks video footage from Iraq taken from an Apache helicopter in July 2007 showing soldiers killing 12 people and wounding two children has caused an…
Wikileaks to release video of US strike on Afghan civilians
By Ben Farmer, The Telegraph, April 11, 2010 Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website, is reportedly preparing to release secret video of a notorious US air strike said to have killed scores of Afghan civilians. The video apparently shows previously classified footage…
Koreans seek Hiroshima compensation
By AlJazeeraEnglish, April 13, 2010 During the Japanese occupation of Korea in World War Two, tens of thousands of Koreans were sent to Japanese cities to work in munitions factories. For the unlucky people of Hapcheon, the destination was the…
Military murder of civilians commonplace in Iraq
Iraq War Vet: “We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us” Dahr Jamail, Truthout, April 7, 2010 On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache…
Canadian Peace Alliance News
Here are some news items compiled by the Canadian Peace Alliance. To get on the CPA mailing list, go to http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/index.html. After 2011 – Why Canada Needs to Leave Afghanistan Canadian Peace Alliance March 31, 2010 At the G8 Foreign…
Murder from above
On April 5, 2010 WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate murder of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter…
McChrystal: “We have shot an amazing number of people . . .”
Tighter Rules Fail to Stem Deaths of Innocent Afghans at Checkpoint By Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, March 26, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans…
How the media spins the Afghan war
U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it By Jerome Starkey, Nieman Watchdog, March 22, 2010 “Tied up, gagged and killed” was how NATO described the “gruesome discovery” of three women’s bodies during a night…
In Iran visit, Lula hopes to prevent Iraq war ‘mistake’
By Press TV, March 27, 2010 Amid threats of an Israeli attack against Iran, Brazil’s president said Friday he has planned a visit to the country to prevent a “mistake” that was the prelude to the invasion of Iraq. “I…