B&E or Homicide? Choose Quick!
If you had to choose between being killed, or having your house robbed while you were out or asleep, which would you choose? Earlier today the Texas Senate passed a bill that would allow concealed…
International Law
My Day with George Galloway
George Galloway, the controversial British MP scheduled to speak in Canada this week, and parties supporting him, sought an injunction at the Federal Court today. Although I don’t agree with everything Mr. Galloway says, his…
U.S. War in Afghanistan
Reproduced with permission of the author, produced here at the request of a reader. HAUNTED BY BUSH’S WAR CRIMES By Michael Haas While additional American troops are being deployed to Afghanistan, George W. Bush’s misdeeds…
Is Someone Going to Kill you with a Piece of Macaroni?
Okay, I can understand banning guns, rockets, even fertilizer… but macaroni? State Department spokesman Robert Wood: Aid should never be used as a political weapon.
Lawyers against War Petition Bush’s Visit
Reproduced with permission by the author from GlobalResearch.ca Former President and War Criminal George W Coming to Canada, March 17 LAW says Bush should be barred from Canada or Prosecuted From Lawyers against the War:…
Rethinking Afghanistan
See the Brave New Foundation’s site and blog.
…And Now, Conservatives Budging on Khadr Too
In response to President Obama’s move yesterday, the Conservative government of Canada is finally reconsidering its position on Omar Khadr, Canadian citizen being detained at Guantanamo Bay. Canada remains the only industrialized nation to not…
Omar Khadr’s Guanatanamo Trial Suspended!
It’s over! For now, anyway. Staying true to his promise, Barack Obama has made it one of his first official acts as President to request a suspension of the military tribunal process in Guantanamo. Omar…
Obama: End of Guantanamo and Good News for Omar Khadr
I have previously expressed my shame at the Canadian Government’s failure to follow the example of every other Western nation in demanding the repatriation of our citizen at Guantanamo Bay. The advocacy in favour of…
Daphna Golan on Israeli Students, Academics
Dr. Daphna Golan, Professor of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, explains in Haaeretz today why the academic establishment in Israel should oppose the Gazan assault, The students’ fight against the tuition increase, the lecturers’…
Phyllis Bennis on Israel and International Law
Phyllis Bennis, Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power,…
CUPE Seeks to Ban Israeli Academics from Ontario Campuses
In the latest idiotic move by CUPE, the union representing striking York University graduate students and contract faculty, the university workers committee will be lobbying in favour of banning Israeli academics from Ontario campuses due…