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Some good news, for a change

STOCKPILE DESTRUCTION SIGNALS END FOR CLUSTER MUNITIONS New report looks at government engagement on ban treaty © LAUK, 2007, Cluster munition containers and submunitions in Western Sahara. Source: ICBL Picassa Web Album GENEVA, Switzerland – 29 May 2009 – Several…

Haiti’s Great White Hope?

March 10, 2009: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton greets United Nations workers in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File) By JOHN MAXWELL, Sunday, Jamaica Observer, May 24, 2009 History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired…

Dark side of Canada’s foreign policy exposed

Author critical of government, defence, mining industries, banks By TAMARA LORINCZ, Halifax Chronicle Herald, May 31, 2009 The Canadian government supplied the uranium for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in the Second World War. Ottawa supported South African apartheid…

FUSION Benefit Concert

FUSION is a benefit concert where every cent of our ticket sales proceeds will go to help bring clean water to our world. We are supporting: www.watercan.com and The Lake Winnipeg Foundation. More Information: http://www.musicforjustice.com/

Pakistan war diary

Imran Khan, Al Jazeera’s reporter in Pakistan, is filing regular dispatches from the country as the army battles Taliban fighters in the North West Frontier Province. His daily posts offer unique insights into this growing conflict and its impact on…

The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia

by Noam Chomsky The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was…

The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy

Yves Engler, author of THE BLACK BOOK OF CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY, available now from Fernwood Publishing, will speak in Winnipeg at Mondragon Bookstore and Cafe, 91 Albert St., Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 7 p.m. Buchwald Room, Millennium Library, 251…