By Paul Weinberg, Antiwar.com, Aug. 16, 2011 TORONTO — Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces,…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Stand on guard for creeping militarism
By Michael Fellman, The Tyee, July 28, 2011 On April 15, Jason Kenny fully scripted a commanding role for military to play during citizenship ceremonies. The veteran, preferably from the Afghanistan War, to be introduced at the start of the…
Afghanistan: Canada’s war continues
By the Canadian Peace Alliance If you had to rely on mainstream media reports or the latest government press release, you would think that Canada had completely left Afghanistan. Most discussions about Canada’s mission focus exclusively on whether the combat…
Somalia: the real causes of famine
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 21, 2011 For the last twenty years, Somalia has been entangled in a “civil war” amidst the destruction of both its rural and urban economies. The country is now facing widespread famine. According to reports,…
Canada’s disarmament conference boycott is ill-advised
By Cesar Jaramillo, The Record, July 14 2011 Canada’s newly elected Conservative majority government seems to be wasting no time in taking a tough stance on foreign policy, but Canada’s decision to boycott the Conference on Disarmament during the presidency…
CIA veteran: Israel to attack Iran in fall
By M.J. Rosenberg, Al Jazeera, July 17, 2011 A longtime CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East is predicting that Israel will bomb Iran in the fall, dragging the United States into another major war and endangering…
The Blood on Rupert Murdoch’s Hands
By David Swanson, Counterpunch, July 15 – 17, 2011 Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees’ phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I’d be glad…
Israel and Palestine: What’s going on and what can we do?
By Paul S. Graham On June 8, 2011, Project Peacemakers Forum panelists Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd and Howard Davidson discussed “Israel and Palestine: What is going on and what can we do?” Did they succeed in answering these questions? Yes and…
Canadian Peace Alliance statement on Afghan detainee files
Judicial Inquiry NOW! Release All the Afghan Detainee files By the Canadian Peace Alliance Despite what John Baird and Peter MacKay said, the release of 4,000 heavily censored files is not the end of the Afghan detainee scandal. The…
Wikileaks, Canada, Iraq & the mainstream media
In the Wake of Wikileaks: A Media Critique of Revelations about Canadian Duplicity in Iraq By Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade and editor of COAT’s magazine Press for Conversion! “One of the most striking differences between…