BOOK REVIEW ‘We blew her to pieces’ Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan by Aaron Glantz Reviewed by Dahr Jamail Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the United States military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves.…
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All Candidates Town Hall Meeting: Kildonan-St. Paul
What: Kildonan-St. Paul All Candidates Town Hall When: Monday, October 6 Where: Red River Community Centre, 293 Murray Road at Main (north of Chief Peguis Trail) When: 7 pm to 9 pm Moderator: Terry McLeod, CBC Information Radio Candidates –…
Canada’s $7 billion war
Canada’s seven billion dollar war: The cost of Canadian forces operations in Afghanistan International Journal, Summer 2008 by David Perry In March 2008, parliament voted to extend Canadian military operations in Afghanistan through 2011. By July of that year, roughly…
Canada’s Afghan Torture Inquiry To Go Ahead
THE AFGHAN MISSION: PRISONER TRANSFER Defiant military watchdog widens inquiry Report calls for hearings into alleged handover of detainees to torturers; top officers could be forced to testify by PAUL KORING Globe and Mail, October 1, 2008 The Harper government’s…
Peace and Democracy for Afghanistan
by John W. Warnock Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Republished with permission. On September 12, 2001, the government of Jean Chrétien pledged Canada’s full support to any action by the U.S. government to confront the al-Qaeda organization and the Taliban…
British diplomat feels Afghan war being lost: report
Story cites leaked cable from France’s deputy ambassador in Kabul CBC News, Oct. 1, 2008 A French newspaper has published what appears to be a diplomatic cable saying Britain’s ambassador to Kabul thinks the West is losing the battle for…
Afghanistan: Why we fight . . .
Afghanistan Challenges for the Corruption Cup by Paul Graham Competition for the coveted Corruption Cup is intense, but Afghanistan is proving itself to be a real competitor. And what, pray tell, is the Corruption Cup? Mainly a figment of my…
Secret society campaigns for female rights
A RAWA class. Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP by Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent The National, September 22, 2008 KABUL // They often stay in safehouses and they do not give their names to the media. Sometimes even their relatives have…
Talking the politics of peace with Americans
Photo: The Minnesota Independent by Marianne Cerilli As a lead up to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I was asked by Stephan Peter, politics professor and Democratic Socialists of America member, to speak to students and activists. The…
Last minute reprieve for Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman
Judge grants U.S. deserter’s last-ditch effort to stave off deportation The Canadian Press, September 22, 2008 TORONTO — A high-profile American war dodger won a desperate bid to stay in Canada on Monday as a judge refused to allow Canada…