Category: Opinions and Debates

America’s strategy for military dominance

America’s Imperial Design. Prompt Global Strike: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, April 11, 2010 A war can be won without being waged. Victory can be attained when an adversary knows it is vulnerable to…

Project Hero = pro-war propaganda

Regina 16 say common folk won freedoms By John F. Conway, The Calgary Herald, April 6, 2010 The 16 University of Regina academics who signed the letter protesting the university’s participation in the Project Hero Scholarship program were clear in…

Israel knows apartheid has no future

By Mustafa Barghouthi, Ma’an News Agency, April 6, 2010 After decades of military rule over Palestinians and theft of our land, Israeli leaders are increasingly seeing the writing on the wall. They are at least acknowledging reality, if not yet…

America’s war crimes

A boy weeps as others survey the damage caused by a US air strike on Fallujah in September 2004. Picture:AFP The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously. By William Blum, Anti-Empire Report, April 5, 2010 When…

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…

Opposing “Project Hero”

Letter from University of Regina professors opposed to Project Hero scholarships Regina Leader Post, March 26, 2010 Faculty of the University of Regina say No to “Project Hero” and Canadian Imperialism: An Open Letter to President Vianne Timmons March 23,…

Have a nice world war, folks

By John Pilger, March 25, 2010 Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of…

War, Racism and Poverty

War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty: When Empire Hits Home, Part 1 By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, March 22, 2010 At a time of such great international turmoil economically and politically, it is increasingly important to identify and…