By Jason Kunin, rabble.ca, November 11, 2011 As we honour today the men and women who have fought and died in uniform, it is important that our remembrance of them not be taken as an endorsement of war or a…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Afghanistan: the “training” mission is a combat mission
Bring the Troops Home Now by the Canadian Peace Alliance, Oct. 31, 2011 The attack on a NATO convoy which resulted in the death of Canadian Master Corporal Byron Greff highlights, once again, that the Harper government is lying to…
Washington’s black ops against Iran
Extensive range of covert operations envisaged by US Congress by Dr. Ismail Salami, Global Research, Oct. 30, 2011 The US secret agenda for tightening its vice-like grip on the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken on an apparently new form…
Obama, the Son of Africa, claims a continent’s crown jewels
by John Pilger, Global Research On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to…
Israeli privilege is unsustainable – Amira Hass
by Paul S. Graham “Inhuman, immoral and unsustainable” are the words used by Amira Hass to describe what she terms “the State of Israel and the privileges it endows to Jews only, at the expense of Palestinians.” Hass was at…
Say No To Islamophobia
Canadian Peace Alliance, September 7, 2011 With the 10th year anniversary of September 11 only days away, Stephen Harper is using the occasion to whip up more hatred against Muslims. While Harper claims that so-called “Islamicism” is the biggest security…
Anti-terror law not needed
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right when he says terrorism, and particularly Islamist terrorism, is still a threat. But he has not made a case for expanding police powers as a response to that threat. Harper says the government wants…
Libya and the world we live in
By William Blum, September 1, 2011 “Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?” – Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011 A few hours later NATO hit…
9/11: Ten Years Later
9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything? By Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, Aug. 24, 2011 In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government’s official account of…
Canada’s foreign policy at odds with popular priorities
By Paul Weinberg, Antiwar.com, Aug. 16, 2011 TORONTO — Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces,…