Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Occupation By Bill Quigly and Laura Raymond, Counterpunch, September 1, 2010 Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS…
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Behind America’s war on terror
The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror by Douglas Valentine, Global Research, August 30, 2010 The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some…
U.S., Canada and NATO Threaten to Extend Afghan War
by Tim Kennelly, The Bullet, Aug. 25, 2010 On March 13, 2008, Canada’s Parliament voted to extend the country’s military “mission” in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The…
Should people boycott Israel?
TheRealNews | August 30, 2010 Omar Barghouti explains the aims of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Part 2 of the interview is entitled Has Israel Moved to the Right?
International Day of the Disappeared
AlJazeeraEnglish | August 31, 2010 We mark the International Day of the Disappeared and ask: What is being done to end forced disappearances, and what will it take to get justice? See also: International Day of the Disappeared
Demonizing Muslims for the long war
America’s Holy Crusade against the Muslim World by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 30, 2010 We have reached a decisive transition in the evolution of US military doctrine. The “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda launched in…
America’s war on terror comes home to roost
The Nazification of the United States By Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, Aug. 27-29, 2010 Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce an important article, “Obama’s US Assassination…
Backgrounder: The U.S. – Iran Standoff
By CASMII, August 16, 2010 The current U.S. standoff against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining U.S. pre-eminence, thwarting rival…
Bill Siksay speaks for a Canadian Department of Peace
redriverpete | 08 August 2010 Aug. 6, 2010: Member of Parliament Bill Siksay was the keynote speaker at Winnipeg’s annual Lantern Ceremony, held to commemorate the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. His topic: a private member’s bill before the…
Why America dropped “The Bomb”
Why World War II ended with Mushroom Clouds 65 years ago, August 6 and 9, 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Jacques R. Pauwels, Global Research, August 6, 2010 On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the nuclear bomb ‘Little…