Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Location: Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Ave., Winnipeg, MB Sponsor: Project Peacemakers Join us as we mark the International Day of Peace with an ecumenical worship service, followed by…
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The 8th Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
Theme: Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace Date: October 1-2, 2010 Place: Menno Simons College and the Global College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada More information, or to register: click here.
Kabul Bank Corruption
Afghanistan’s troubled bank House of Karzai A bank run exposes more murky financial and political dealings By The Economist, Sept. 9, 2010 PALM JUMEIRAH, the giant palm-shaped peninsula in the Persian Gulf, is famous for its luxury homes. In Kabul…
Another Wikileaks release pending – this time Iraq
Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks By Kim Zetter, Wired Magazine, September 9, 2010 A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks,…
Imperialism, war and the management of democracy
Chris Hedges is an award-winning American author, journalist and teacher and an outspoken critic of globalization, war and U.S. foreign policy. Speaking at the Veterans for Peace 25th anniversary convention in Portland, Maine in August, Hedges presented a wide ranging…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg – Monthly Meeting
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Place: Project Peacemakers Office, 745 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg (See Map.) Please join us at our first meeting of the fall, as we set out to plan the next year…
Targetting Iran
Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran Part I: Global Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 1, 2010 Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in “an advanced state of readiness”. Hi tech weapons…
The Real Axis of Evil
The Iran threat in the age of the real-axis-of-evil expansion By Edward Herman, Coldtype.net It is intriguing to see how whoever the United States and Israel find interfering with their imperial or dispossession plans is quickly demonized and becomes a…
Meeting a seven-year-old terror suspect
By Rick Salutin, rabble.ca, September 3, 2010 I met Abdullah, the seven-year-old terror suspect, at a dinner near Toronto on Canada Day. He came last year from Gaza with his dad, Izzeldin Abuelaish, who’s here teaching global health at the…
Afghan Financial Panic
AlJazeeraEnglish | September 05, 2010 Nervous customers withdraw their savings amid fears of possible bank collapse. Banksters, Afghan style by Creekside, Sept. 2, 2010 Der Spiegel in July: “Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected…