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First Syria, then Iran?

A mistaken case for Syrian regime change By Aisling Byrne, Asia Times, Jan. 5, 2012 “War with Iran is already here,” wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing “the combination of covert warfare and international pressure” being applied to Iran.…

Leaving Afghanistan

Notes on Afghanistan: The Surge to Withdrawal by Vijay Prashad, Counterpunch, January 6, 2012 Kabul sprawls like an injured lion. Its population has increased four-fold to 4.5 million over the past ten years. War refugees, fleeing the countryside for the…

Professional sports and militarism in Canada

Professional sports and militarism: Tyler Shipley By Riaz Sayani-Mulji and Ryan Sparrow, rabble.ca, January 5, 2012 On this week’s episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with musician, freelance journalist, and political activist Tyler Shipley on the militarization of the NHL…

US troops deploying to Israel

The Pentagon to Send US Troops to Israel. Iran is the Unspoken Target . . . Blacked-out news story in America By Global Research and whiteoutpress.com, January 4, 2012 January 2, 2012. Jerusalem. In one of the most blacked-out stories…

Caplan: Solidarity, not charity

Gerry Caplan is a former CUSO field officer, author of The Betrayal of Africa, a weekly, online columnist for The Globe and Mail, and a featured television political commentator. Caplan was the keynote speaker at a dinner held in Winnipeg…

Haiti after the quake

Where the Relief Money Did and Did Not Go by Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas, Counterpunch, Jan. 3, 2012 Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds…

The end of American Democracy

THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012: Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act” By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Jan. 1, 2012 With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones,…

US threatens China & Russia

Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Borders with China and Russia By Professor James Petras, Global Research, December 10, 2011 After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, failing to buttress…