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View Article  MUgabe, Britain and...

Mugabe, Britain and the abuses of anti-colonialism

Over forty years ago, as Africa commenced the long  and arduous process of decolonization, one of its foremost liberationist thinkers issued a prophetic warning. Frantz Fanon, himself a freedom fighter, wrote that ...   more »

View Article  TAMIL EELAM

Tamil Eelam: An Observation

Faithful observation and un-biased analysis would say: ‘The distinction between politics and religion was not discovered but invented.’ The whole project’s evil genius is, when you divorce the moral, ethical and spiritual dimension from statecraft then Religion is expected to play a passive and respectable role, aiding and abetting ...   more »

View Article  O, CANADA!

Canada, Racism, Genocide, and the Bomb

The Legacy of C.D. Howe

by Kim Petersen

It is fortunate that the use of the bomb should have been upon the Japanese rather than upon the white races of Europe.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie King (uncensored diaries)
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The first shipment of Uranium is transported on Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) ...   more »
View Article  Tactics That Ended Apartheid

Tactics That Ended Apartheid in S. Africa Can End It in Israel

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict often inspires a sense of powerlessness. What can average Americans do to bring an end to this decades-old conflict when our leaders have failed so miserably?

And what good is speaking out about Israel’s occupation of Palestinian ...   more »

View Article  AT A Time Like This...

At A Time Like This…

By Chandi Sinnathurai

24 June, 2008
Countercurrents.org

Much talk is circulating once again, about pressure being put upon Sri Lankan state to go for rounds of peace talks with the Tamil Tigers. It could be seen on the surface as good news. But, when you look at recent history of talks and its utter ...   more »

View Article  Palestine in the American Imagination; By Ramzy Baroud

Palestine In The American Imagination: Religion, Politics And Media
By Ramzy Baroud

21 June, 2008
Palestine Chronicle

Abstract: A study of the political, religious and cultural factors underlying the pro-Israeli bias apparent in the Western media today, as depicted in the mainstream news and television programmes.

As Palestinians hurriedly buried their loved ones in the Gaza Strip following a ...   more »

View Article  Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers - by Jeff cohen

Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers

It was nineteen years ago this week that I.F. (Izzy) Stone died. The legendary blogger was 81.

Confused? You say he died years before web blogs were invented?

Well, yeah, but when I think of today’s blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of ...   more »

View Article  The Politics of Humanitarian Aid

             The Politics of Humanitarian Aid

President Bush was justifiably upset. A cyclone four days earlier had destroyed a large portion of Myanmar, and the country’s military junta was still refusing humanitarian aid. “Let the United States come to help you, help the people,” Bush pleaded with the junta. “We’re prepared to move U.S. Navy assets ...   more »

View Article  YARLPANAM

      A SINHALA SOLDIER IN YARLPANAM

A Sri Lankan soldier in the Jaffna Peninsula. Sri Lanka's ...

QUIT OCCUPATION= PEACE

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