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- May 24, 2012| By|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.
- May 18, 2012| By|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.
- May 18, 2012| By|A recent Angus Reid poll found 58 per cent of Canadians strongly disagree with keeping troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014.
- May 17, 2012| By|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.
- May 12, 2012| By|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.
- April 9, 2012| By|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.
- March 15, 2012| By|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.
- February 16, 2012| By|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.
- February 16, 2012| By|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."
- February 12, 2012| By|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.
- January 5, 2012| By|We speak with musician, freelance journalist and political activist Tyler Shipley on the militarization of the NHL and other sports leagues in North America.
- December 7, 2011| By|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.
- December 2, 2011| By|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.
- October 27, 2011| By|In this excerpt from Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil?, Derrick O'Keefe examines Ignatieff's initial call to arms for the "War on Terror."
- October 21, 2011| By|Two hundred demonstrators greet the former U.S. president in Surrey, as four men sent to Guantanamo Bay seek justice for their torture.
- October 14, 2011| By|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.
- October 7, 2011| By|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.
- October 6, 2011| By|Former Afghan MP, human rights activist and author Malalai Joya's message on the 10th anniversary of the war and occupation of Afghanistan.
- October 6, 2011| By|A pre-emptive strike against the no doubt one-sided and superficial media treatment of this week's 10th anniversary.
- September 28, 2011| By|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.
- August 22, 2011| By|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.
- August 22, 2011| By|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.
- July 21, 2011| By|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.
- July 15, 2011| By|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.
- July 4, 2011| By|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?









