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.
Category: Opinions and Debates
Salute U.S. war resisters in Canada: support Bill C-440
by WarResistersCanada, March 19, 2010 Vietnam Veteran Ron Kovic salutes U.S. Iraq War resisters in Canada on 7th Anniversary of invasion. Support Bill C-440 ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 MP Gerard Kennedy (L – Parkdale-High Park) introduced Bill C-440, An Act…
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…
Iran’s natural gas riches the reason for the wars
Iran’s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart of World Future Energy by Finian Cunningham, Global Research, March 18, 2010 The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field…
Biological warfare and the Korean War
by AlJazeeraEnglish, March 17, 2010 People&Power investigates accusations that in 1952 the US acquired and used germ warfare technology on North Korean civilians during the Korena War.
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…