Oct. 14, 2010: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet performed inTel Aviv. RWB Dancers, RWB Senior Ballet Master Johnny Chang, Minister David Chomiak, Minister Christine Melnick & Premier Greg Selinger backstage during intermission on opening night. Photo: Tim Fennel, RWB By Yves Engler…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Canada’s role in the persecution of child soldier Omar Khadr
By Keith Jones, Global Research, Nov. 1, 2010 The military commission trial of child-soldier Omar Khadr and the plea bargain that the Obama administration and the Pentagon coerced from him this week have been widely and rightly condemned. Now just…
The persecution of Omar Khadr
America and Obama Hit Bottom: Pressuring Child Soldier to Plead Guilty to Murder Violates International Law and Basic Common Decency By Dave Lindorff, Oct. 25, 2010 As the author of The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), I never…
War monger in charge of Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel’s Pro-Military Agenda and the Future World Order By Yoichi Shimatsu, New America Media, Oct. 18, 2010 In its most recent selections of peace laureates Barack Obama and Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has been pushing the strategic…
War crimes are war crimes
A boy wounded in Gaza City is taken to hospital during Israel’ “Operation Cast Lead” attack on Gaza. Photo: metro.co.uk Israel is relieved not to be the only war criminal The voice of joy, the voice of rejoicing is heard…
More than 1 million Iraqis may have been killed in the war
Deaths Revealed by Wikileaks Are the “Tip of the Iceberg” A woman and other relatives cry over the body of a man killed in Baquba in September 2006 (Reuters: Helmiy al-Azawi) By Nicolas Davies, Global Research, Oct. 25, 2010 The…
The Shaming of America
By Robert Fisk, The Independent, Oct. 24, 2010 As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries,…
Malalai Joya: “this war is a disaster”
Joya rejects the NATO coalition, Harper and the excuses for war By Malalai Joya, rabble.ca, October 18, 2010 In the United States, many looked to the ballot box and hoped for real change when Barack Obama was elected President in…
Why Canada lost its bid for a Security Council seat
by Yves Engler In a stunning international rebuke Stephen Harper’s government lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat last week. The vote in New York was the world’s response to a Canadian foreign policy designed to please the…
NGOs compromised
The Soros Syndrome By Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch, Oct. 8-10, 2010 George Soros announced a few weeks ago that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch—conditional on the organization to find a matching $100 million a year from other…