Alanna Makinson is VP External, University of Manitoba Students Union. Following the June 13, 2009 Winnipeg Walk for Peace, she spoke on the negative impact of the war in Afghanistan and increased military spending on post-secondary education in Canada. Makinson…
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Yves Engler: A Canadian foreign policy for peace
Yves Engler is the author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. He spoke in Winnipeg, June 13, 2009, at the conclusion of the 28th annual Walk for Peace, on the need to reorient Canadian foreign policy. Engler’s proposals…
The Coup and the U.S. Airbase in Honduras
By Nikolas Kozloff, Counterpunch, July 22, 2009 The mainstream media has once again dropped the ball on a key aspect of the ongoing story in Honduras: the U.S. airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola. Prior to the recent…
Obama’s Middle East policy: No, you can’t . . .
Turning Point? by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info, June 7, 2009 The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in US Middle East policy, leading to consternation in some quarters, exuberance…
Germany And NATO’s Nuclear Nexus
By Rick Rozoff, Global Research, July 19, 2009 The reunification of Germany and the start of NATO’s post-Cold War expansion, drive east and beginning of its transformation into a global military force occurred on the same day, October 3, 1990.…
Exceptional Imperialism
Mourn on the 4th of July by John Pilger, ZSpace, July 11, 2009 The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with…
Killing Hope, Sowing Terror: The Assassination Bureau
By Manuel Garcia, Jr., Counterpunch, July 15, 2009 In June of 2009, Leon Panetta, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — the American Praetorian Guard guiding the course of the Dollar Area Empire — cancelled a program…
Internal documents show Harper Govt obsessed with war resisters
By Laura K, we move to canada, July 10, 2009 Those of us who actively oppose the policies of Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government may sometimes feel government officials are impervious to our criticisms. Those of us who write and call…
Afghanistan, Canada and the challenges facing the anti-war movement
By James Clark, rabble.ca, July 14, 2009 In just a few months, anti-war activists will mark the eighth anniversary of the launch of the U.S.-led “war on terror,” and the movement that emerged to counter it. Since 2001, Canada’s anti-war…
NATO’s War Plans For The High North
NATO Secretary General Scheffer (L) and Iceland’s outgoing Prime Minister Haarde (R) attend seminar on security prospects in high north in Reykjavik Photo: REUTERS by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, June 14, 2009 Since the beginning of the year the United…