The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will mark its 60th anniversary on April 4 and 5, 2009. At the same time, demonstrations will take place all over the world calling for an end to NATO’s war in Afghanistan. The Canadian…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Afghanistan: A surge towards disaster
by Anthony Fenton, Asia Times, March 14, 2009 As United States President Barack Obama simultaneously escalates and crafts a new strategy for the US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led counter-insurgency war and occupation in Afghanistan, critics say that the “surge”…
Seven years in Iraq
President Obama spoke to Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where President Bush in 2003 rallied support for the war. (Jim Young/Reuters) The War is Not Over By JOHN ROSS, Counterpunch, March 12, 2009 The day we human shields rolled into…
Bush League Justice
Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta To Be Tried For International Crimes? by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge, March 6, 2009 George W. Bush and Omar al-Bashir Serious allegations of criminality are…
Doomsday Clock May Finally Stop Ticking
by Haider Rizvi, IPS, Feb. 23, 2009 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) – The Barack Obama administration’s apparent resolve to take U.S. foreign policy in a new direction is creating ripples of hope for an enhanced U.N. agenda on nuclear…
Attack of the Killer Robots
Designed by Massachusetts-based defense contractor Foster-Miller, the Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System, or SWORDS, stands three feet tall and can be equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers. The Pentagon’s dream of a techno army is doomed to fail…
Former US President Jimmy Carter: “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work”
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Feb. 11, 2009 President Carter’s previous book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, generated a great deal of controversy here in the United States. Last year, he was removed from the speakers list at the Democratic National…
Obama’s “War on Terror”
by Stephen Lendman, Global Research, February 10, 2009 The language is softened and deceptive. The strategy and tactics are not. The “war on terror” continues. Promised change is talk, not policy. Just look at Obama’s “war cabinet,” discussed in an…
Project Ploughshares audits Canada’s Military Exports
On the Record: An audit of Canada’s report on military exports, 2003-05 by Kenneth Epps and Kyle Gossen During 2004 and 2005 Canadian-manufactured helicopters worth in excess of $100-million were delivered to the Pakistan Armed Forces for use against “terrorism.”…
Noam Chomsky on Gaza
“Exterminate all the Brutes” – Gaza 2009 by Noam Chomsky, Znet, Jan. 20, 2009 On Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the…