By Ashley Smith, Counterpunch, Feb. 24, 2010 It’s now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the…
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Chossudovsky: US will start WW3 by attacking Iran
By Russia Today, Feb. 19, 2010 A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel…
No Olympic Truce in Marjah
By the Canadian Peace Alliance, Feb. 19, 2010 While our Prime Minister talks about the the “Olympic Truce”, a symbolic suspension of war during the winter games, the people of Afghanistan are facing a new wave of violence. The official…
Obama’s Record War Budget
Will Obama’s Record War Budget Lead to a US Victory in Afghanistan? Don’t Bet On it? by Jack A. Smith, Global Research, February 14, 2010 President Barack Obama has increased the Pentagon’s perennially-bloated annual spending spree to its greatest magnitude…
Wars sending U.S. into ruin
By Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, Feb. 5, 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health. In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick…
9/11 Truth: the Challenge to the Peace Movement
On September 13, 2009, Dr. Graeme MacQueen, a retired professor of religious studies from McMaster University, presented a speech entitled 9/11 Truth: the Challenge to the Peace Movement, at the conference, “We Demand Transparency! For Peace, Truth, and a New…
U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow
by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 20, 2010 Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China’s (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for…
Gaza – The Cost of War
By Al Jazeera English, Jan. 20, 2010 The Cost of War examines the longer term legacy of Israel’s war on Gaza. By following characters associated with buildings that were targeted in the war, the film explores the humanitarian and economic…
Haiti, hell and hypocrisy
by Paul S. Graham I cringe when I hear folks like Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon use the word “solidarity” in the same breath as “Haiti.” I’m all for solidarity with the Haitian people, but when it is expressed by…
Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux
by Cynthia McKinney, Global Research, Jan. 19, 2010 President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical…