Tuesday 29 July 2008 by Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective So far, Bush’s plan to maintain a permanent US military presence in Iraq has been stymied by resistance from the Iraqi government. Barack…
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Conference to plan prosecutions of U.S. war criminals
A two-day conference on obtaining prosecutions of high level American war criminals will open September 13th, in Andover, Mass. The conference will explore the legal grounds for, and plan for, obtaining prosecutions of President Bush and top officials of his…
Repatriate Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr has been detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay since he captured by the U.S. military in Afghanistan in 2002. At the time of his capture he was 15 years old. Omar Khadr is the youngest detainee and the…
Hiroshima Peace Day Lanterns For Peace
Above is an artist’s depiction of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome or A-Bomb Dome), the only structure left standing in the area where the atomic bomb exploded. It has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the…
July 10th Vigil at the Manitoba Legislature
About 15 Winnipeg peace activists assembled at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, July 10, to show solidarity with American soldiers who have fled to Canada rather than participate in the ongoing war crime being perpetrated by the United States in…
Afghanistan war – it’s all about energy
Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Route. Source: CCPA Forget official rhetoric about fighting for democracy and women’s rights in Afghanistan. It’s all about energy. A report released June 19, 2008 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) offers more realistic…
‘It’s impossible to conquer the Afghans’
by Paul Koring From The Globe and Mail July 12, 2008 MOSCOW — Head bowed, exhausted, the statue of a young soldier back from Afghanistan’s killing fields is flanked by long, grim, lists of his dead comrades. It’s a cautionary…
Canada, Guantanamo and Yankee Poodles
Stephen Harper, Bush’s Last Yes Man? by Robert Fantina Counterpunch, July 12/13, 2008 During the administration of Tony Blair as Prime Minister of Britain, he was sometimes referred to as the ‘Yankee Poodle,’ due to the constant and humiliating spectacle…
Out of the mouths of war mongers
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his…
American Peace Activists: “Thank you, Canada!”
JULY 10, 2008 From: Veterans for Peace Canadian Consulate Vigils Huge Success! Well, we had a great day overall! Thanks to the united efforts of many folks, we succeeded in mounting actions at the Canadian Embassy and Consulates in 14…