Paul Rogers, writing for Opendemocracy.net, provides a clear analysis of the evolution of ISIS and the western worlds’ failure to find a way out of the trap cast by ISIS (“ISIS’s plan, and the west’s trap”, Opendemocracy.net, 27 November, 2015). Tactics employed by ISIS have continued to change but the West has failed to adapt, […]
Archive | November, 2015
America’s wars: A monumental swindle
Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch discusses America’s reckless military spending
“Unfinished business of the most serious kind. ” – Peggy Mason
Rideau Institute President Peggy Mason renews the call for an independent public inquiry into allegations of Canadian complicity in the transfer-to-torture of Afghan detainees.
Trudeau must have the courage of his convictions
In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, the Canadian neocons are out in full force, baying for Prime Minister Trudeau to renege on his promise to withdraw Canada from the bombing mission in Iraq and Syria.
Canada must ban asbestos!
Over 140 civil society organisations, medical doctors, and health experts from Canada and around the world have written to Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, calling on his government to ban asbestos.
“This Remembrance Day I’ll wear two poppies: one red and one white”
Veteran Malcolm French on poppies and the meaning of Remembrance Day