by Andy Worthington, August 18, 2009 The mesh-wire cages, suitable only for animals, are empty now and overgrown, but they will stand forever as a symbol of the Bush administration’s inept, brutal and destructive “War on Terror” policies, implemented in…
Who will be the last to die for this mistake?
by Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian, August 8, 2009 For the past week I have been hearing the rattle of machine guns and the sonic booms of fighter jets tearing across the sky. It sounds like Helmand province, Afghanistan, but it…
Superpower – The Movie
Superpower: Far from a conspiracy film about the dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and military strategy that is…
Imperial delusions
The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War by Prof. Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, August 11, 2009 In the Road to 9/11 I summarized the dialectic of open societies: how from their energy they expand, leading to a…
War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The most recent conflict in Congo began 12 years ago when Rwanda and Uganda backed the rebels who were seeking to remove Laurent Kabila, the then president. An estimated 6 million people have been killed over this period; rape is…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2009
Every August 6, citizens in thousands of communities around the world commemorate the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and rededicate themselves to the cause of peace and disarmament. In Winnipeg, a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony is conducted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg,…