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Back in 2002-2003, when US leaders were priming us for war against Iraq with claims about Iraq's WMD stockpiles (false), links to the events of 9/11 (false) and genocide (false), a genocidal war was going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The world knew about this genocide at the time it...

Canada has refused to extradite Khadr to the US to face terrorism charges. Ontario Superior Court Justice Christopher Speyer found the U.S. had violated basic principles of justice and granted a rare stay of extradition proceedings against Khadr. Court rejects Abdullah Khadr extradition...

Wikileaks released 90,000 documents regarding the Afghanistan war in what is being described as the biggest leak of classified information ever. The US government is not happy. They include details of many previously unknown and/or unreported incidents where Allies killed innocent civilians...

This guy got 18 months for pretending to be Jewish in order to get laid.

Looks like we have another failed nation state in the making. The government of Kyrgyzstan, appears to have lost control as the country slides down a slippery slope toward anarchy and chaos. The root cause appears to be extreme poverty. The majority ethnic group known as Kyrgyzs are mostly...

I only buy lottery tickets during draws like this.

Apparently the NDP and the Liberals are considering merging into a single party. What do you think?

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I always liked fromer Supremen Court Justice, Louise Arbour. She has an unblemished record regarding identifying and condemning human rights problems. I thought I'd share regarding her recent efforts to hold people responsible for war crimes in Sri Lanka

Background: wiki The fact is, Iran has never been proven to be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). On the contrary, punitive measures against Iran for their peaceful nuclear program violate the NPT. Iran has failed to observe some voluntary confidence building...

The war in Darfur:

Recently NASA released images from their Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Canadian Phil Stooke examined the images and found an image of a long lost Russian lunar rover. Pictures and story here: Canadian finds long-lost moon rover in new NASA images Cool!

Usually Israeli settlement building flies under the radar, but this story even made the cbc: Related Legally, Israeli annexation of Palestinian land for settlement building falls into the category of war crimes and crimes against humanity depending on scale. Israel's leaders knew population...

First launched in Toronto in 2005, Israeli apartheid Week has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year, more than 35 cities around the world participated in the week's activities, which took place in the wake of Israel's brutal...

If you like a good intellectual debate, which gets down and nasty, you can't beat this "Democracy Now!" debate between two renowned academics, Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein. The result was about as equal as a Bruce Lee fight: YouTube - Finkelstein - Bruce Lee YouTube - Finkelstein -...

Khadr was 15 at the time he fought the Americans in Afghanistan, was captured and tortured. According to international law, he was a child soldier and a victim. I don't care for Khadr, but he is a Canadian citizen, and the government shouldn't be able to decide which Canadians have rights...

Did the power scale just tip in China's direction? The not so thinnly veiled threat is aimed at all American defense contractors who depend on Chinese trade as a source of components: Those arms won't work too well if the US faced an embargo of critical military components.

...and I'm a married man. ;) I am disgusted that the infotainment industry (formerly known as the news) has subjected yet another family to a public humiliation. Sort of reminds me of the Clintons or Lady Diana. Just because people are rich and famous does not mean vultures should be allowed...

All observers, regardless of their relative velocity, will always measure zero-mass particles such as photons traveling at the speed of light in a vacuum. If you were to accelerate towards the speed of light, you would see a blue shift in front and a red shift behind, but your observed speed of...

If this dispute continues on its current course, eventually it will ignite a war. Haaretz Al Jazeera The Nobel Sanctuary is threatened by Jewish extremists who seek to destroy it and replace it with a Jewish Temple. [/SIZE][/FONT]