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Leading thousands of protesters in a peaceful march against NATO's wars, each veteran made a brief statement and threw his or her medals at the gate.

As Harper heads off to the G8 at Camp David and the NATO meetings in Chicago, we share eight reasons to be sorry he's representing us on the world stage.

A recent Angus Reid poll found 58 per cent of Canadians strongly disagree with keeping troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014.

This weekend, tens of thousands are expected to converge on Chicago to protest against a major NATO summit. The war in Afghanistan will be at the top of the agenda.

The midnight deal ratified by Presidents Obama and Karzai last week in Kabul will keep United States' domestic taxpayers on the hook for another 10 years at least.

On April 10, University of Toronto students and community members will protest a high-level military conference being held on campus, sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs.

The inconsistency at the core of U.S. foreign policy is that democracy can be delivered through the barrel of a gun, that terrorism can be fought by terrorizing a nation.

The 17th edition of the jhr Rights Report speaks to Afghans for Peace, a group of Afghans fighting for the right to self-determination in a country under occupation.

The longest war in United States history, the Afghan war is being perpetuated, according to one brave, whistle-blowing U.S. Army officer, through a "pattern of overt and substantive deception."

The Harper government's foreign policy has made us the Ugly Canadian on the world stage. Stopping and reversing this foreign policy will require, for starters, a vigorous and sustained public debate.

We speak with musician, freelance journalist and political activist Tyler Shipley on the militarization of the NHL and other sports leagues in North America.

This week's talks in Bonn, Germany, on the future of Afghanistan show a distinct lack of concern for the future of women in that country.

Since the 9/11 terror attacks and particularly the advent of the Harper government, there has been a conscious effort to militarize Canada's culture.

In this excerpt from Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil?, Derrick O'Keefe examines Ignatieff's initial call to arms for the "War on Terror."

Two hundred demonstrators greet the former U.S. president in Surrey, as four men sent to Guantanamo Bay seek justice for their torture.

U.S. Special Forces have assumed mythic proportions in the media and popular culture. Yet they are viewed less positively within the military because they operate outside of the chain of command.

So much of what has happened in the last decade has hurt civil liberties, human rights, peace and more -- but it has also mobilized opponents to oppression who are strong and committed.

Former Afghan MP, human rights activist and author Malalai Joya's message on the 10th anniversary of the war and occupation of Afghanistan.

A pre-emptive strike against the no doubt one-sided and superficial media treatment of this week's 10th anniversary.

Police escorted speech-goers into a private Vancouver club to hear former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney talk about his memoirs. Meanwhile, hundreds protested his appearance.

For good or ill, NATO's campaign has "broken" Libya. So NATO owns it now and the results of not paying the price have the potential to be catastrophic.

As well as leading the NDP to its recent historic election results, Layton provided a number of lessons for how opposition inside and outside Parliament can work together for peace and justice.

Despite so much information in Richard Colvin's reports being redacted and suppressed, what is available makes ugly reading. Canadians deserve to know the truth.

News stories that claim Canada's involvement in the Afghan war has now ended are designed to advance a political program that has its roots closer to home than in the mountains of the Hindu Kush.

There is an opportunity for foreign policy debate that reflects Canadian values and a principled role for Canada in the world -- but is the NDP, the new Official Opposition, up to it?