Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, December 3, 2009 Let others deal with the details of President Obama’s Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 U.S. troops going in and just where they…
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Canada must withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately
Malalai Joya, addressing an audience of 300 in Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. You can watch video of her Winnipeg speech here. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk by Malalai Joya I have just completed a two-week speaking tour across Canada, bringing a message…
Muddying the waters over torture
by Brian Stewart, CBC News, November 25, 2009 Torture in a far off, turbulent land such as Afghanistan seems grimly foreign to us. Yet parts of the allegations raised by diplomat Richard Colvin have an utterly familiar Canadian air about…
Restorative Justice and the Middle East
Sandy Tolan’s Lemon Tree by Paul S. Graham, November 26, 2009 I don’t normally recommend a book before I have finished reading it, but I will this time. Sandy Tolan’s award winning book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew…
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, time for reflection
by Mikhail Gorbachev, The Progressive Media Project, November 10, 2009 As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s time to take stock. The Berlin Wall was one of the shameful symbols of the Cold…
Why Afghans Oppose Escalation of the War
Leave Afghanistan to the Afghans By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Nov. 9, 2009 Students of Kabul University, one holding a photo showing graves of Afghan victims killed in airstrikes, shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration against coalition airstrikes in Farah in…
Canada’s “Sacrifice Medal”
Afghanistan, Canada and resisting the cult of human sacrifice by Paul S. Graham, October 20, 2009 Families of Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan can now take comfort in knowing that even if their sons or daughters commit suicide they will…
Canada’s complicity in Iraq war
Hostile takeover: Canada’s outsourced war for Iraq’s oil riches By Anthony Fenton, This Magazine, October 2009 issue In March 2008, when the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” marked its fifth anniversary, Canadian media outlets…
Iranian nukes a time-tested boogie man
How to Keep Iran in Check Without War by Gary Sick, The Daily Beast, Sept. 27, 2009 President Eisenhower once remarked to his peripatetic Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “Don’t do something, Foster, just stand there.” From all evidence,…
The real nuclear threat
Iran, nukes and imperial hypocrisy by Paul S. Graham, Sept. 26, 2009 Dale Cummings’ cartoon (left) in today’s Winnipeg Free Press, illustrates the fear-mongering hypocrisy surrounding Iran’s nuclear enrichment program that is being propagated by news media and governments world-wide.…