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Help Stop Harper's War Agenda

June 29, 2007 Give a gift of $25 or more to receive this cool, limited edition Ceasefire.ca pin Dear friend, Did you know that pro-war lobbyists are forming a new group that is “aimed specifically at countering peace advocates” like us? I read this recently in Now Magazine. That’s why I founded the Rideau Institute […]

Want your photo on Ceasefire.ca?

Hi there – Did you know that many organizatons use “stock” photos of people – or even sometimes their employees? We want to show photos of REAL Ceasefire.ca people. We are updating the Ceasefire.ca website – especially the donation and sign-up areas – and we’d like to create a montage of photos that shows the […]

Indian Nukes

It always fascinates me how people can re-write history with 20-20 hindsight. In reply to my blog on Pakistan, one of my most faithful readers suggested that Pakistan’s current instability accounts for India’s nuclear weapons. Sorry, but India’s first nuclear detonation (composed of about 90% of naive Canadian technology exports) took place in 1974, after Pakistan […]

Civil War in Pakistan?

News reports coming from Pakistan are no longer speaking of civil unrest, but of a looming civil war. The causes are complex: ethnic, religious, regional, and economic all melding and overlapping. But the cause doesn’t really matter. The Americans and NATO think life is tough in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now think of a country of 160 million people, armed with nuclear weapons, […]

Relations with Russia could "spin out of control"

It is shocking how badly relations between NATO (the U.S.) and Russia have deteriorated recently – but what is more shocking is how little media attention is being paid to it. It’s a car wreck in slow motion, and over the past several days my office has issued four different releases to Canadian journalists sending out a warning – […]