By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Global Research, May 12, 2011 First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the…
Last WW1 Vet Dies
By Al Jazeera English, May 5, 2011 A significant chapter in military history has ended with the death of the last combat veteran from World War I. Claude ‘Chuckles’ Choules, the last-known male survivor out of more than 70 million…
How the Afghan mission influenced the election
By Carl Meyer, Embassey Magazine, May 4, 2011 While foreign policy was rarely mentioned or discussed during the election campaign, a bold new post-vote thesis is emerging, one in which Liberal support for the unpopular Canadian mission in Afghanistan pushed…
Can we bring the troops home now?
Robert Fisk: If this is a US victory, does that mean its forces should go home now? Iran spoke for many Arabs when it said Bin Laden’s death took away the West’s reason to have troops in the region By…
NATO ponders putting ground troops in Libya
Russia Today – Italy will host the next major international meeting on Libya. Leaders from NATO and the Arab league will gather this Thursday to plan the political transition following the departure or ousting of Libyan leader Mamuamar Gaddafi. And…
Make Libyan war an election issue
By Paul S. Graham The more we learn about the so-called humanitarian intervention in the skies above Libya, the less it looks like a war Canadians should support. Like the bogus humanitarian claims Tories and Liberals have used to support…