Tag: imperialism

What US Air Power Actually Does

By Tom Engelhardt, Counterpunch, March 17, 2011 When men first made war in the air, the imagery that accompanied them was of knights jousting in the sky. Just check out movies like Wings, which won the first Oscar for Best…

Rally: Stop US drone attacks on Pakistan

Location: U.S. Consulate, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg Organizer: ACTION 1:21 Background: We are a Christian group that believes following Jesus involves working for justice and peace. Our name is derived from Phillipians 1:21, a Bible verse “for me, to live…

No Military Intervention in Libya

Statement from the Canadian Peace Alliance The Government of Canada has announced that it will send HMCS Charlottetown to Libya to join the US aircraft carrier fleet led by the USS enterprise. This is part of a much larger NATO…

Richard Holbrooke’s Deathbed Conversion

By David Swanson, Dec. 15, 2010 For all the talk of strategic counterinsurgency that oozes out of Washington, and all the manuals explaining that 80% of our investment in a nation-building operation should be civilian, we’ve been investing about 3%…