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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, Jan. 14, 2011 Defining the Imperial Stratagem In the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that,…
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…
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,…
