By Project Fly Home, March 23, 2010 This is the March Call to Action in Project Fly Home’s six-month campaign leading up to the first anniversary of Abdelrazik’s return to Canada. Video and audio from February events are included below.…
U.S. to press for Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan
By John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail, March 25, 2010 The U.S. government will ask Canada to keep as many as 500 to 600 troops in Afghanistan after this country’s military deployment in Kandahar ends in 2011. Sources inside and outside…
UN rights body censures Israel
By Al Jazeera English, March 24, 2010 The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed three resolutions condemning Israel over its policies in occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories. However, the United States voted against them all. Another resolution, calling for…
War, Racism and Poverty
War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty: When Empire Hits Home, Part 1 By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, March 22, 2010 At a time of such great international turmoil economically and politically, it is increasingly important to identify and…
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.
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…