December 27, 2009 marks the first anniversary of Israel’s murderous assault against the besieged people of Gaza. The 22-day attack left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead (including nearly 400 children). It obliterated more than 3,600 homes, destroyed universities, hospitals, places…
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Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?
by Andy Worthington, December 23, 2009 Over the weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I have previously reported the stories of the two Somalis who were released…
The US Currently Has 189,000 Personnel in Afghanistan
Stunning Statistics About the War That Everyone Should Know By Jeremy Scahill, Counterpunch, December 18-20, 2009 A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversightsubcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent…
Tales from Yes-we-can-istan
By William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, December 9, 2009 All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg Annual Meeting
Date: Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 Time: 2:00 Place: Crossways-in-Common, 222 Furby Street (at Broadway, see map) in the boardroom To vote at the meeting, you must be a paid-up member at least 10 days prior to the annual meeting. Membership…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg House Concert with J.D. Edwards
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: 808 Spruce Street, Winnipeg Admission: $25 Tickets: Call Garth at 470-7487. Peace Alliance Winnipeg invites you to our annual fundraising house concert. This year’s performer is J.D. EDWARDS. JD is a…
Monty Python in Afghanistan
Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, December 3, 2009 Let others deal with the details of President Obama’s Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 U.S. troops going in and just where they…
Canada must withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately
Malalai Joya, addressing an audience of 300 in Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. You can watch video of her Winnipeg speech here. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk by Malalai Joya I have just completed a two-week speaking tour across Canada, bringing a message…
Muddying the waters over torture
by Brian Stewart, CBC News, November 25, 2009 Torture in a far off, turbulent land such as Afghanistan seems grimly foreign to us. Yet parts of the allegations raised by diplomat Richard Colvin have an utterly familiar Canadian air about…
Restorative Justice and the Middle East
Sandy Tolan’s Lemon Tree by Paul S. Graham, November 26, 2009 I don’t normally recommend a book before I have finished reading it, but I will this time. Sandy Tolan’s award winning book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew…