Category: International

Koreans seek Hiroshima compensation

By AlJazeeraEnglish, April 13, 2010 During the Japanese occupation of Korea in World War Two, tens of thousands of Koreans were sent to Japanese cities to work in munitions factories. For the unlucky people of Hapcheon, the destination was the…

Canadian Peace Alliance News

Here are some news items compiled by the Canadian Peace Alliance. To get on the CPA mailing list, go to http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/index.html. After 2011 – Why Canada Needs to Leave Afghanistan Canadian Peace Alliance March 31, 2010 At the G8 Foreign…

Murder from above

On April 5, 2010 WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate murder of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter…

How the media spins the Afghan war

U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it By Jerome Starkey, Nieman Watchdog, March 22, 2010 “Tied up, gagged and killed” was how NATO described the “gruesome discovery” of three women’s bodies during a night…

UN rights body censures Israel

By Al Jazeera English, March 24, 2010 The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed three resolutions condemning Israel over its policies in occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories. However, the United States voted against them all. Another resolution, calling for…

Miss Landmine

By AlJazeeraEnglish, March 22, 2010 Miss Landmine is a challenge to normal concepts of beauty. It is a beauty pageant held in Angola, a country ravaged by war and its aftermath, for women who have lost limbs from landmines.