Making mobile phones uses minerals only available from Congo’s war zone. Is our appetite for the latest electronic gadgets fuelling exploitation in the Congo even threatening the survival of central Africas magnificent gorillas? On the inside of many devices like…
Category: Opinions and Debates
The ghosts of Vietnam haunt Washington
by Eric Margolis, Sept. 22, 2009 As this column predicted a month ago, Afghanistan’s much ballyhooed recent election staged by its foreign occupiers turned out to be a fraud wrapped up in a farce. The election was as phony and…
So, they still think they can win in Afghanistan, eh?
Can U.S. win war the Canadian way? Allan Woods, Toronto Star, Sept. 22, 2009 OTTAWA–Canada is backing calls for an overhaul of the failing Afghan mission, but likely won’t be around to ensure the success of a new strategy that…
Malalai Joya – Afghan MP Calls for Troops out of Afganistan
Malalai Joya is one of the bravest women in Afghanistan. As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan parliament. In May 2007, Joya…
A Deserter’s Tale: Joshua Key’s story of horror and hope
Joshua Key is an American war resister who fought in Iraq and who sought refuge in Canada because of his war experiences. Author of “The Deserter’s Tale,” Joshua told the story of his recruitment into the U.S. Army, the carnage…
U.S. Nuclear War Planning for a Hundred Holocausts
by Daniel Ellsberg on September 13, 2009 One day in the spring of 1961, soon after my 30th birthday, I was shown how our world would end. Not the Earth, not—so far as I knew then—all humanity or life, but…
Bruce Cockburn performs for Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Bruce Cockburn – which side are you on? by Paul S. Graham, Sept. 12, 2009 Our Prime Minister continues to promote the fiction that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington justified the illegal invasion of Afghanistan and…
Sactioning rogue states
Why Not Sanctions for Israel? By Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, September 1, 2009 In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for…
Afghanistan: Civilian slaughter continues
Obama’s Unspoken Trade-Off: Dead US/NATO Occupation Troops versus Dead Afghan Civilians? KANDAHAR, Aug 5, 2009 : Villagers look at the bodies of three children after they were killed in an airstrike by foreign troops in Arghandab district of Kandahar, south…
Pipeline politics: Afghanistan and the new Great Game
by John Foster, rabble.ca, August 27, 2009 Why is Afghanistan so important? A glance at a map and a little knowledge of the region suggest that the real reasons for Western military involvement may be largely hidden. Afghanistan is adjacent…