By Gerald Caplan, Globe and Mail, Nov. 26, 2010 American and NATO troops, including Canadians, will pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 at the latest, unless they don’t. It depends on something but no one knows what that something might…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Galloway: “Harper is no Jean Chretien”
As I was about to say … … before I was so rudely interrupted by Jason Kenney: I hate terrorism, whether committed by a man in a turban or a politician in a suit By George Galloway, Ottawa Citizen, November…
Chomsky: Threat of war with Iran is real
Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomsky on the expansion of post-WW 2 power and the recent signs of it’s decline: America can no longer force countries to do its bidding, as evidenced by growing independence in South America, and Turkish-Brazilian initiatives…
George Galloway pledges to help fund Canada’s peace movement with lawsuit proceeds
By Paul S. Graham In an interview, today, on Winnipeg’s CKUW-FM community radio station, peace and human rights activist George Galloway pledged to spend the proceeds of his lawsuit against the Canadian government to help fund the anti-war movement in…
A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
By Amy Goodman, Truthdig, Nov. 16, 2010 “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President…
Factory, coal mine show connections matter most in Afghan business
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers, Nov. 14, 2010 KARKAR COAL MINE, Afghanistan — Shovel-wielding miners in rags and plastic shoes, some with the protruding ribs and work-ravaged pallor of labor camp prisoners, toil deep inside this remote northern mountain,…
Afghanistan: Harper’s hypocrisy, Iggy’s complicity and Layton’s lame response
By Paul S. Graham, Nov. 13, 2010 Harper’s decision to continue Canada’s participation in the occupation of Afghanistan beyond 2011 is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Ignatieff’s acquiescence is similarly unsurprising. Still, in light of previous…
Remembrance Day: Reversing the Tide of War. Say No to Nuclear War
By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Nov. 11, 2010 “Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen.” (Mahatma Gandhi) “The United States…
Nicaragua in America’s cross-hairs again
By Stan Goff, Feral Scholar, Nov. 3, 2010 Rio San Juan del Norte empties into the Caribbean Sea along the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The river is renowned for its biodiversity, and is surrounded on the Costa Rican…
Fake Anti-War Activism
By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Nov. 4, 2010 Some of America’s wars are condemned outright, while others are heralded as “humanitarian interventions”. A significant segment of the US antiwar movement condemns the war but endorses the campaign against international terrorism,…