By Johann Hari, The Independent, July 28, 2009 I am not sure how many more days I will be alive,” Malalai Joya says quietly. The warlords who make up the new “democratic” government in Afghanistan have been sending bullets and…
Category: Opinions and Debates
The Last Fighting Tommy (of WW1)
Harry Patch, the “last fighting Tommy” to have survived the trenches of World War One, died on Saturday at the age of 111. For most of his life, he refused to speak of his horrific experiences. In recent years Mr.…
Blood and Oil
Synopsis: From bloodandoilmovie.com The notion that oil motivates America’s military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense…
Imperial paranoia then and now
Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! A Century of Frenzy over the North-West Frontier By Juan Cole, Tomdispatch.com, July 27, 2009 Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what…
Americans asked to “Rethink Afghanistan”
These are selections from the 17-part “Rethink Afghanistan” series produced by Brave New Films. For the entire series, go here.
Fund education, not war!
Alanna Makinson is VP External, University of Manitoba Students Union. Following the June 13, 2009 Winnipeg Walk for Peace, she spoke on the negative impact of the war in Afghanistan and increased military spending on post-secondary education in Canada. Makinson…
Yves Engler: A Canadian foreign policy for peace
Yves Engler is the author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. He spoke in Winnipeg, June 13, 2009, at the conclusion of the 28th annual Walk for Peace, on the need to reorient Canadian foreign policy. Engler’s proposals…
The Coup and the U.S. Airbase in Honduras
By Nikolas Kozloff, Counterpunch, July 22, 2009 The mainstream media has once again dropped the ball on a key aspect of the ongoing story in Honduras: the U.S. airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola. Prior to the recent…
Obama’s Middle East policy: No, you can’t . . .
Turning Point? by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info, June 7, 2009 The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in US Middle East policy, leading to consternation in some quarters, exuberance…
Germany And NATO’s Nuclear Nexus
By Rick Rozoff, Global Research, July 19, 2009 The reunification of Germany and the start of NATO’s post-Cold War expansion, drive east and beginning of its transformation into a global military force occurred on the same day, October 3, 1990.…