by Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, Oct. 28, 2008 Hardly a day goes by without some extraordinary news from the military commissions, the system of “terror trials” conceived in the office of the vice president in November 2001, and their days now…
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Global Justice Film Festival
When: Friday/Saturday, November 7/8th Where: University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue Tickets: $20 (or Friday evening $8 – Saturday all day $12), half-price for students/low income. More information: Janice Hamilton, Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, 987-6420, Email: mcic@web.ca, Internet: www.globaljusticefilmfestival.ca…
War or Peace? The World After the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
by Richard C. Cook Global Research, October 26, 2008 World war or world peace is the blunt choice that will face either Barack Obama or John McCain when one of them is elected president of the United States on Tuesday,…
Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Protest U.S. Plan to Stay Until 2011
Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr take part in a rally in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, to protest a draft U.S.-Iraqi security agreement. The mass show of opposition comes as the United States and Iraqi…
Afghanistan: 20 Million People Under the Poverty Line
Around 20 million people out of estimated 26 million population of Afghanistan are living under the line of poverty. PHOTO: RAWA.ORG by BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA), October 17, 2008 On the basis of the official statistics, the level of…
“War is the crime of our times.”
Despite the Threat of Harsh Punishment, Soldier Says “No” to Deployment in Afghanistan By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet, October 23, 2008 “I believe war is the crime of our times,” Blake Ivey, a specialist in the U.S. Army, said over the…
Parwez Kambakhsh sentenced to 20 years
by AMIR SHAH, Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2008 KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence for a journalism student accused of blasphemy and instead sentenced him Tuesday to 20 years in prison. The death sentence against…
Oct. 18 – Winnipeggers oppose the war in Afghanistan
Oct. 18, 2008. Winnipeggers march against Canada’s war in Afghanistan. Photo: Paul Graham Winnipeggers joined thousands of Canadians across the country in a day of protest against Canada’s war in Afghanistan, Oct. 18. The Winnipeg action began with a rally…
NATO airstrike kills another 25 Afghan civilians
Report: NATO Air Strike in Helmand Kills At Least 25 Civilians Antiwar.com, October 16, 2008 NATO forces launched an air strike in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province early this afternoon. According to local officials, the attack killed between 25 and…
Afghanistan: Civilian casualties not accidental
Civilian dead are a trade-off in Nato’s war of barbarity by Seumas Milne The Guardian, Thursday October 16, 2008 While the eyes of the western world have been fixed on the global financial crisis, the military campaign that launched the…