by John Ryan I was fortunate enough to be in Afghanistan in November of 1978, six months after a progressive socialist government came to power. I travelled from the city of Peshawar in Pakistan through the Khyber Pass to Kabul.…
What is the world significance of the US defeat in Afghanistan? What are the prospects for peace and development there? What role could China, Russia and Iran have in Afghanistan’s reconstruction? How has Western hypocrisy over human and women’s rights…
Kudos to the Regina Peace Council for making peace an election issue. To date, 86 countries have signed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and 55 have formally ratified it. Shamefully, Canada continues to refuse to have…
by María Páez Victor By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about “dictator”, “authoritarian regime”, “collapsed…
by Paul S. Graham The lack of any discussion of Canadian foreign policy during this election is shocking and shameful — almost as shameful as Canada’s foreign policy itself. Take the case of Venezuela. For the past two decades the…
On July 10, 2021, in the second of a series of Peace Alliance Winnipeg webinars dealing with Canada’s actions on the world stage, author and activist Yves Engler discussed Canada’s military, past and present. Yves Engler is the author of…
On August 14, 2021, Hanna Kawas discussed Canada’s complicity in Palestinian dispossession and how it enables settler colonialism at home and abroad. Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian activist, writer, and journalist who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the…
On Friday, August 6th, Winnipeggers joined in a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are held each year to help keep alive the memory of these attacks…
by Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of The City of Hiroshima August 6, 2021 On this day 76 years ago, a single atomic bomb instantly reduced our hometown to a scorched plain. That bombing brought cruel death to countless innocent victims…
by Dr. John Ryan It is now 75 years since the USA used atomic bombs to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombs instantly killed about 200,000 people and thousands more died horrible deaths later from the burns…
