Malalai Joya, an outspoken critic of the war in Afghanistan and the youngest woman elected to that country’s parliament speaks at the University of Calgary on Sunday October 10, 2010. Photograph by: Gavin Young, Calgary Herald By Lea Storry, Postmedia…
Manitoba Government Ignores Palestinian Oppression
By Paul Graham, The Palestine Chronicle, Oct. 11, 2010 A few days ago, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger announced his government’s intention to deepen economic and cultural relations with Israel. “Manitoba and Israel have common interests in clean energy, water quality…
US plans to nuke N. Korea well established
US Often Weighed North Korea ‘Nuke Option’ By The Associated Press, New York Times, October 9, 2010 NEW YORK (AP) — From the 1950s Pentagon to today’s Obama administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of…
NGOs compromised
The Soros Syndrome By Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch, Oct. 8-10, 2010 George Soros announced a few weeks ago that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch—conditional on the organization to find a matching $100 million a year from other…
Malalai Joya pans Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan
Afghan women’s rights leader says Obama no better than Bush By The Canadian Press, Oct. 6, 2010 OTTAWA – Malalai Joya, a rights activist and former Afghan MP, says U.S. President Barack Obama’s policies in Afghanistan are as bad as…
Send a message to Ignatieff
tell michael ignatieff: you do not want war resisters deported, and you expect him to help By we move to canada, Oct. 4, 2010 From the War Resisters Support Campaign: MAJORITY OF MPs DO NOT WANT US IRAQ WAR RESISTERS…