by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 1, 2011 No stranger to armed conflicts over the past 70 years, the United States has completed its first decade of continuous warfare: 2001-2010. On January 1 the U.S. and its allies in the…
Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger with all sides
By Ana Carbajosa, The Observer/Guardian, Jan. 2, 2011 An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas’s violent crackdowns on ‘western decadence’, the destruction wreaked by Israel’s attacks and the political games played…
Canadian Boat to Gaza campaign is legal, ethical, and necessary
By David Heap and Derrick O’Keefe, Straight.com, Dec. 31, 2010 The Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative continues to be a target for a smear campaign that has little regard for law or facts. Rather incredibly, the executive of the University…
Canada’s war in Iraq
By Richard Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade In March 2003, when the Liberal government declared that Canada would not join the US-led “Coalition of the Willing” against Iraq, most Canadians were understandably proud. Unfortunately, it was a smoke-and-…
Yves Engler: How Canada lost its bid for a UN Security Council Seat
Where: Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street, Winnipeg (in the Carol Shields Room) Admission: $5.00 donation requested Sponsors: Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Project Peacemakers Yves Engler is a Montréal activist and author. He has four published books: The Black Book of…
Worry grips Sudan as new year looms
by Fayez el-Zaki Hassan and Ahmed Sayed KHARTOUM, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — As 2010 is drawing near to an end, the Sudanese people are gripped by anxiety for a new year that could see their country split in two and…