Police escorted speech-goers into Vancouver and Calgary venues as protesters call for former U.S. VP's arrest.
Iran
Netanyahu is calling Obama's bluff
There is a new theme developing in U.S.-Israeli relations and while not a new one it is the first time U.S. officials have talked about it so openly: Israeli and U.S. interests in the Middle East are not identical. So far these words have not passed the lips of Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and have only been uttered by military brass. Whether the brass would have the jam to make these statements to pressure Obama on his Mid East policy or they are simply playing their role in an Obama strategy is unclear.
Is criticism of Iran a form of anti-Iranianism?
Happy April Fool's Day to our rabble-rousing readers! The following is a short parody about the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA). Their deliberations are based on the premise that criticism of Israel is anti-semitic. The author of this piece, Terry Greenberg, takes a look at an original quote below by writer Thomas Friedman, which was cited by MP Irwin Cotler as the basis of the CPCCA.
Canada Reads: Prisoner of Tehran: Marina Nemat Interview
Jan 27 2012 - 7:00pm
Location
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge St.
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 40' 18.4512" N, 79° 23' 12.5268" W
See map: Google Maps
PEN Writer-in-Exile committee member and author of Prisoner of Tehran , Marina Nemat, will be interviewed onstage as part of CBC's Canada Reads ongoing events. Nemat will be talking about her life growing-up in Iran as well as bringing attention to two compelling and urgent cases of fellow Evin prisoners, Saeed Malekpour and Hamid Ghassemi-Shall.
International Day of Action: No war in Iran
Feb 4 2012 - 3:00am
Location
U.S. Consulate
1075 West Pender at Thurlow
Vancouver, BC Canada
49° 17' 14.2476" N, 123° 7' 9.858" W
See map: Google Maps
The imperialist war drive led by the US government is escalating against Iran. Iran is facing sanctions imposed by the EU, US, UN and Canada, as well as imperialist covert operations including assassinations and sabotage. Manipulation and the negative propaganda war against Iran are an indication of the seriousness of imminent imperialist military attack.
Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) has joined and endorsed the February 4th call to action against war on Iran by U.S. social justice and antiwar organizations. Join MAWO in Vancouver along with cities across the US and around the world to demand:
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From media lies to hot war: US-Israeli threats against Iran and the geopolitics of World War 3
Feb 10 2012 - 7:00pm
Feb 10 2012 - 9:00pm
Location
Bloor St. United Church, (upstairs) Chapel
300 Bloor St. W, 2 blks. E of Spadina Rd.
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 40' 1.3764" N, 79° 24' 7.326" W
See map: Google Maps
Reel Activism will present:
Professor Michael Keefer
The US and Israel are edging towards a war of aggression that would be openly genocidal. Prof. Keefer will analyze
-The media (& state) deceptions that have been used to stir up war fever,
-The economic and political instabilities that make war tempting to US-Israeli elites,
-The plans of attack and defence (so far as they are publicly known), and finally
-The larger imperial geopolitics of which the current aggressions are part.
