By Paul S. Graham March 16, 2011: Huwaida Arraf spoke at a forum in Winnipeg, Canada entitled “From Direct Action to the Freedom Flotilla: the International Solidarity Movement and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle. Arraf is co-founder of the ISM and…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Who are the Libyan freedom fighters and their patrons?
By Professor Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, March 25, 2011 Peter Dale Scott’s Libyan Notebook [Editor’s Note: Author’s selected quotations and analysis] Preface The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle…
War on Libya and control of the Mediterranean
By Rick Rozoff, Global Reearch, Mar. 25, 2011 A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of…
Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist aggression shreds UN Charter
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley, Global Research, Mar. 22, 2011 On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against…
After Sendai
By Richard Falk, Counterpunch, Mar. 18-20, 2011 After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki there was in the West, especially the United States, a short triumphal moment, crediting American science and military prowess with bringing victory over Japan…
Libya and the Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy
By Ghada Chehade, Global Research, March 21, 2011 If you are feeling a sense of déjà vu watching the US (and its “allies”) bombing Libya, you are probably not alone. We have been here before: watching a hypocritical U.S (possibly the most…
What US Air Power Actually Does
By Tom Engelhardt, Counterpunch, March 17, 2011 When men first made war in the air, the imagery that accompanied them was of knights jousting in the sky. Just check out movies like Wings, which won the first Oscar for Best…
Video: How Canada lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat
Speaking at a forum, Jan. 23, 2011, sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Project Peacemakers, author/activist Yves Engler explores Stephen Harper’s foreign policy and how it cost Canada its bid, in 2010, for a seat on the United Nations Security…
F-35 Stealth Fighter: A bad deal for Canada
By Michael Bueckert, Program Coordinator, Project Peacemakers As you may know, this past July, the Conservative government announced what could be the single largest military procurement in Canada’s history when it declared its intention to buy 65 F-35 Lightning II…
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…