Preparing the Battlefield The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. by Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker July 7, 2008 Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of…
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US/Israeli Attack on Iran Looms
New War Brewing U.S., Israel take dangerous steps by Eric Margolis Edmonton Sun, July 6, 2006 GENEVA — The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war.…
War is not glamorous, Mr. MacKay
Speaking in Brandon last week, Defence Minister Peter MacKay pointed to plans to spend another half billion on the Canadian military and asserted that it is a “good time to be a soldier.” Needless to say, this is not a…
Who’s actually winning in Iraq?
by Patrick Cockburn Counterpunch, June 26, 2008 The American occupation of Iraq follows the same course as that of British rule after the First World War. At first there was imperial over-confidence following military victory and a conviction that what…
What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
Lost in the System By George Monbiot Published in the Guardian 17th June 2008 . . . Three days before Bush arrived in Britain, the US Supreme Court ruled that the inmates at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to contest their…
American-led war on terror cannot be allowed to spread into Pakistan’s Pashtun tribal area
A Line Not to be Crossed By Eric Margolis Toronto Sun June 15, 2008 The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. air and artillery strikes last week shows just how quickly the American-led war in Afghanistan is spreading into…
War commentaries: Afghanistan & Iraq
If you rely on the mainstream media, especially in North America, for your understanding of the battles waged in Iraq or Afghanistan, the most you will get is place names, body counts and sound bites that rarely stray from officially…
We must resist Canada’s descent into militarism
Address to the 2008 Annual Winnipeg Walk for Peace by Howard Davidson What we are witnessing and resisting today is Canada’s descent into the pro-war, militarized society that has already occurred in the United States. At every opportunity, the right-wing…
“The Power of Nightmares” Unmasks the Politics of Fear
“In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not…