@ April 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
A Hot Issue In Bush’s Low-Life America By John Chuckman “One of the important things here is that we not lose our national soul,” George Bush Was George Bush speaking of some truly shattering event in American affairs? Perhaps the imprisonment and torture of thousands of innocent people? Perhaps the lack of democratic legitimacy in [...]
@ April 28, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Are There Long Term Consequences to Snuggling Up to America? Let me start today by saying that I’m not anti-American as a rule and though some people may see it that way, this is not an attempt at U.S. bashing. The fact is I actually like our neighbors to the south for the most part. [...]
@ April 26, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Conservative Version of the American Approach of Hiding War’s Ugly Realities By Myles Higgins Tuesday was a very sad day for Canada in more ways than one. It was a day when we saw four more of our fallen soldiers return home from the war in Afghanistan, or to be more accurate, we didn’t see [...]
@ April 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Moussaoui Trial – Scholars Describe Accused as Patsy The trial holding Zacarias Moussaoui responsible for the horrors of 9/11 has all the marks of a political charade, according to Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a society of experts devoted to exposing falsehoods and establishing truths about the events of that day. “Even the most basic elements [...]
@ April 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Conduct Unbecoming a Public Intellectual and Leadership Candidate By Robert Billyard By all accounts, the value of public intellectuals is that they bring to bear knowledge, insight and critical analysis to a given issue. Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff is one such. As a distinguished professor of human rights at Harvard University he took a [...]
@ April 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The Cia Fires The Whistleblower By John Chuckman Often small things provide the most disturbing evidence for world-changing events, as when naturalists observe the quiet disappearance of some little known species. The CIA’s firing of senior officer Mary O. McCarthy is a political event of just this nature. Ordinarily, the firing of some middling CIA [...]
@ April 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Harper’s Appeasement Harms Canadian Interests By Myles Higgins In the 1940s most Newfoundlanders pondered their political future. At the time talk turned to independence, becoming Canada’s tenth Province or even becoming an American state. By April of 1949 the die had been cast. Confederation with Canada was officially announced in newspaper headlines around the world [...]
@ April 18, 2006 # No Comment Yet
“I did not join the British Army to conduct American foreign policy” By Robert Billyard “I did not join the British Army to conduct American foreign policy,” said British soldier Ben Griffin, a member of the SAS-Britain’s elite commando force. Griffin has resigned from the army in disgust after witnessing “dozens of illegal acts” by [...]
@ April 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
NDP – Liberal Coalition, An Examination By John Ryan Shortly after the election I wrote an article, “A chilling echo of Bush’s Republicans,†(CounterPunch, January 31), and then I sent an open letter to each NDP and Liberal MP, later published in CounterPunch, March 1. Afterwards, I wrote a personal letter to Jack Layton with [...]
@ April 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
History Driven by Heinous Corruption By Robert Billyard In 1963 John Frankenheimer’s film classic Seven Days in May, based on the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W.Bailey ll was released. It starred Fredric March as President Jordan Lyman, Burt Lancaster as General James Mattoon Scott (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Kirk Douglas [...]