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Bradley Manning: Soldier of Humanity | NDPP said... Bradley Manning And The Appalling Silence of Gay, Inc. - by Andy...

Stop the Drone War! Speaking Tour | Boom Boom said... Sounds good. I hope they get tons of support. in

American Imperialism and its Supporters | voice of the damned said... Nice attempt at a trolling. But seriously, try for some subtlty next time. the monstrous...

Canada 'Cuts and Runs': The Afghan People Will Win - #26 | NDPP said... New Order of the Day in Afghanistan: Cut and Run - by Scott Taylor http://thechronicleherald....

Canada Complicit in Afghan Detainee Torture | M. Spector said... NDPP wrote: He said he sent evidence to the ICC because he believes top Canadian authorities have...

The Silver Snoopy is a special Cheap True Religion honor | Freedom 55 said... When's the next census? I know what my new religion is. in

american soldiers show the world | Ken Burch said... Those idiots have also given the Taliban a GREAT recruiting film with this. Nothing like the...

FILM FEST 4 PEACE! 9th Annual Vancouver International | noahfine said... http://www.filmfest4peace.blogspot.com/ in

The True Cost of 9/11 | Catchfire said... Noam Chomsky's article And here's a wonderful article about babble's role and...

The Foreign Policy Elephant | Aristotleded24 said... With the NDP now the government-in-waiting, NDP foreign policy is going to be that much more...

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'Enough is enough': U.S. war resister and Iraqi-Canadian reflect on decade of war | Mar 21 2013 | Riadh Muslih | Iraqi-Canadian Riadh Muslih and U.S. war resister Rodney Watson Jr., living in sanctuary in a Vancouver church to avoid deportation, reflect on the Iraq War ten years later.

For U.S. veterans and Iraq's victims, the war is not over | Mar 19 2013 | Kathy Kelly | Within Iraq, an estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people live, according to Refugees International, "in constant fear, with limited access to shelter, food, and basic services."

Women and War: Documenting a century of struggle for peace and justice | Mar 8 2013 | Jacqueline Mulhallen | An informative, comprehensive, concise yet clear and accessible historical account of the major wars of the 20th and 21st centuries and the roles women played.

The new 'green scare': Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire | Feb 28 2013 | Deepa Kumar | In this excerpt, Deepa Kumar looks at the uses of Islamophobia by a U.S. government that pushes war abroad and repression at home.

Why the Right's 'defence lobby' wants another war | Feb 18 2013 | Steven Staples | With Mali, the "pacifist left" is needed more than ever to end wasteful military spending and to keep the defence lobby from luring Canada into another reckless war.

F15: Assessing the legacy of the largest protest in world history | Feb 15 2013 | Derrick O'Keefe | Last weekend, I attended and spoke at an international conference in London assessing the legacy of the largest protest in human history -- February 15, 2003.

The new war for Afghanistan's oil | Feb 12 2013 | Redeye Collective | The Pentagon recently admitted that Taliban attacks are on the increase in some regions. One of the factors that may be driving this trend is the fight for control of Afghanistan’s oil reserves.

Tariq Ali: The consequences of the Iraq war -- ten years on | Feb 11 2013 | rabbleTV | Tariq Ali was one of the featured speakers at an international anti-war conference held Saturday, Feb. 9 in London.

Politics, the media and the anti-war movement | Feb 7 2013 | Chris Nineham | February 15 marks the tenth anniversary of the largest day of coordinated global protest in history. Activist and author Chris Nineham reflects on the lessons of the movement against the Iraq War.

Robert Fisk on Stephen Harper's foreign policy, the Arab Spring, and the wars in Syria, Mali and Afghanistan | Feb 1 2013 | Derrick O'Keefe, Jahanzeb Hussain, Meghan Murphy | Derrick O'Keefe and Jahanzeb Hussain speak with journalist Robert Fisk about Canadian foreign policy under Stephen Harper, the Arab Spring, and the wars in Syria, Mali and Afghanistan.

Uniting in common causes for peace and prosperity, not war and austerity | Jan 25 2013 | Christine Jones, Derrick O'Keefe, Dylan Penner | The sweeping changes that Harper's government are steamrolling ahead with are a serious threat to people and the planet. A coordinated response to bring this destructive agenda to a halt is needed.

Covering the 'war on terror': In conversation with Robert Fisk | Jan 22 2013 | Paul Weinberg | Fisk's beat, when it comes down to it, is the collateral damage of what he calls "the unnecessary" war on terror, waged in Washington, Ottawa, London, Paris, Moscow, etc.

Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety | Nov 25 2012 | Redeye Collective | A new book by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift argues that the myth of Canada as a peaceable kingdom has been replaced by the story of Canada as a nation of warriors.

Afghan-Canadians tell the real story behind Remembrance Day protest | Nov 14 2012 | Laila Rashidie, Suraia Sahar | Some sections of the conservative media have inaccurately portrayed our identity, action and purpose. We are Afghan-Canadian women peace activists with a voice that can stand for itself.

Remembrance Day and the glorification of the military in Canadian schools | Nov 12 2012 | Matt Moir | I reject the clumsy attempt by schools to honour fallen soldiers that often amounts to little more than the glorification of the Canadian military.

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