In The Twilight War, historian David Crist unravels “the secret history of America’s 30-year conflict with Iran.” A secret conflict that’s looks certain to become a real war soon. Led by Israel. A war Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk seems to have been itching for since the announcement of the
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wmtc: please sign daniel ellsberg’s petition to free bradley manning
Daniel Ellsberg, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Bradley Manning Support Network are asking for our help. Please sign the petition to free Bradley Manning, and share it as widely as you can.
Continue readingwmtc: rtod: extremism normalized
Revolutionary thought of the day: Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely lamented as a threat to core American liberties and restraints on federal surveillance and detention powers? Yet now, the Patriot
Continue readingwmtc: ten years too long: bring omar khadr back to canada
Today marks 10 years since Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then 15 years old, was picked up in Afghanistan. For an entire decade, he has lived in prison, first in Bagram, then in the US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay. He lives in solitary confinement, which is recognized internationally as a
Continue readingwmtc: romeo dallaire says: bring omar khadr back to canada
Change.org|How to Start a Petition I was surprised and pleased to see Roméo Dallaire’s name associated with the campaign to repatriate Omar Khadr. I hope it helps. It’s hard to believe Omar Khadr is still being held in Guantanamo Bay. It’s hard to believe that the concentration camp at Guantanamo
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Revolutionary thought of the day: Among the peoples of the world the idea of war resistance is growing. You must fearlessly accept the challenge and aggressively spread the idea of war resistance. You must convince the people to take disarmament into their own hands and to declare that they will
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Revolutionary thought of the day: Pick up Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front or James Jones’s From Here to Eternity. Read Henry IV. Turn to the Iliad. The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper Conservatives Nuke Own $1.2 Billion Military Project
On this one, I salute Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Sort of. The Harper Conservatives have just gutted their own plan to buy 1,500 logistics trucks, 800 commercial vehicles and equipment for the . That’s $1.2 billion of Canadian taxpayers money saved. Sort of agreeable too is the explanation for the
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: WikiLeaks Begins Publishing The “Syria Files”
At a press conference held today, 5 July 2012, at the Frontline Club in London, WikiLeaks spokesperson Sarah Harrison announced that over the coming months, WikiLeaks will release a database of over two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: The Obert Report: Harper and Obama Argue About The War of 1812 (VIDEO)
Co-hosts Obert and Anita dramatize a recent secret conversation between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama. Harper and his Conservative majority government are militarizing Canadian society. They’re re-writing the country’s history to fit their fledgling right-wing worldview. Canada‘s Independence Day is around the corner and Harper
Continue readingwmtc: fundraising continues for ptsd service dog for war resister
Help a war resister adopt a service dog! So far we have raised $3,030 of the $8,000 needed. (The ChipIn page shows the amount donated online, but does not include cheques mailed in.) Every donation brings us closer to our goal. If you can spare only $10, it will be
Continue readingwmtc: truth to power and pride in truth
Seen at San Francisco Pride Parade, June 24, 2012
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur On Obama’s “Kill List” (VIDEO)
Aly Ssa Canadian Progressive World mentioned. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down President Obama‘s “Kill List” of terrorists targeted for assassination through drone attacks. Obama approves every name on the Kill List. He reviews the bios and the evidence against them. And then he authorizes “lethal action
Continue readingwmtc: every war in history has had resisters, even the war of 1812
It’s the 200th anniversary of The War of 1812, and the government would like us to remember that. Here’s something you might not find in the official story: not everyone was so keen to fight. My friend Jonathon Hodge, a librarian in Toronto, did some research on the war resisters
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
I blogged about Dave Eggers’ What Is the What, while I was still reading it. It turned out to be an extraordinary book, both in the ordeals the Sudanese refugees have survived and in the telling of the story. Proceeds from the sale of What Is the What support the
Continue readingwmtc: a very important act you can take to "support the troops" and help a family in need
Click here to help the Brockway family adopt Buddha! Every donation makes a difference. Every dollar will move them closer to their goal. * * * * A US veteran commits suicide once every 80 minutes. In the US, for every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25
Continue readingwmtc: what are you doing next saturday night? join the discussion: "can we stop the harper agenda?" featuring brigette depape
On Saturday, May 26, Brigette DePape, the former parliamentary page who disrupted the 2011 Throne Speech, will speak on a panel discussing how we can make her two-word protest a reality. The panel also includes: • Tasha Peters, an Ottawa-based organizer, activist, and member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.
Continue readingwmtc: the whole world is watching: veterans to return medals in nato/poverty protests this weekend
All eyes will be on Chicago this weekend, as thousands of protesters from all over North American converge on the the NATO summit. The symbolism could not be more trenchant, as Chicago was the scene of protests and rebellion against an earlier US war, and famously out-of-control police violence. Iraq
Continue readingwmtc: canadian council of churches calls on jason kenney to let u.s. war resisters stay in canada
This letter was hand-delivered to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, from the Canadian Council of Churches. The Council is the largest ecumenical body in Canada, representing 23 churches, comprising 85% of the Christians in Canada. 15 May 2012The Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P.Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and MulticulturalismCitizenship and Immigration CanadaOttawa,
Continue readingwmtc: open letter to jason kenney: "history is tapping our shoulders"
Last night in Toronto, supporters of US war resisters in Canada honoured International Day for Conscientious Objection with a group letter-writing session. This letter was written by Nicole Marie Burton, the partner of war resister Jules Tindungan. It affected me deeply, and I asked Nicole for permission to share it
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