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…
McChrystal: “We have shot an amazing number of people . . .”
Tighter Rules Fail to Stem Deaths of Innocent Afghans at Checkpoint By Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, March 26, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans…
Canada out of Afghanistan? Don’t kid yourself!
By Paul S. Graham, March 31, 2010 A CBC online poll is asking “Should Canadian combat forces remain in Afghanistan past 2011?” At the moment, 74 per cent have answered “No.” While encouraging, this is somewhat higher than what we’ve…
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…
E-mail your M.P. now to support Iraq War resisters and Bill C-440
by the Canadian Peace Alliance, Mar. 29, 2010 In only a matter of a few weeks, Parliament could be debating and voting on Bill C-440, a bill that would make legally binding two motions that have already passed in the…
CBC publishes Afghan detainee documents
Who wants to read some Afghan detainee documents? By Janyce McGregor, CBC News, March 26, 2010 Reading, sorting, and analyzing pages and pages of documents (even though there IS an awful lot of the censor’s black ink) isn’t everyone’s thing.…