Category: Opinions and Debates

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.

Why US troops will remain in Iraq

Operation Enduring Occupation by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, March 18, 2010 The 2008 National Defense Strategy reads: US interests include protecting the nation and our allies from attack or coercion, promoting international security to reduce conflict and foster economic growth, and…

The New ‘Forgotten’ War

by Dahr Jamail, March 15, 2010 Iraq occupation falls into media shadows The Western world that slaughtered Iraq and Iraqis, through 13 years of sanctions and seven years of occupation, is now turning its back on the victims. What has…

Fallujah’s birth defects

By AlJazeeraEnglish, March 11, 2010 On this episode of the Riz Khan show we ask if US weapons are behind the sharp rise in birth defects in Falluja. Residents of the Iraqi city blame the surge in chronic deformities on…

Breaking the Fever of Militarism

Unnatural Acts By Chris Floyd, Counterpunch, March 8, 2010 All who draw the sword will die by the sword. — Yeshua Ha-Notsri, Palestinian dissident, c. 33 CE. As we all know – or rather, as everyone but those who climb…

It’s still a war budget

By the Canadian Peace Alliance, March 5, 2010 The Conservative’s 2010 Budget still represents an unprecedented increase in defence spending, says the Canadian Peace Alliance, Canada’s largest peace network. While there is a small decrease in the amount previously allocated…

Canadian Military Spending: Up is Down?

By Bill Robinson, Rideau Institute, March 5, 2010 (Ottawa) The new federal budget commits the Harper government to going ahead with its planned increases in military spending in both the coming year (fiscal year 2010-11) and the next, after which, Finance…