Tags – War
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No one answer
An interview with Marilyn Waring
Marilyn Waring’s decades-long career has been as varied as it has been influential. She was the youngest woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament, is a long-time activist for lesbian and gay rights, and has tended her own goat farm for many years. Waring recently spoke with Briarpatch about the state of women’s rights in the Global South and how women in the North can support southern resistance to economic inequality.
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Dark days
Book review
Dark Days is about the imprisonment and torture of four innocent Canadians in Syria in the furtherance of the so-called “war on terror” launched by George W. Bush. The four men, all Muslims, are Maher Ahar (361 days in Syrian detention), Abdullah Almalki (more than 22 months in Syria), Ahmad El Maati (two years, two months and two days in Syria and Egypt) and Muayyed Nureddin (34 days in Syria). Not one of them was ever charged with any crime.
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Modest investments, immodest returns
How to profit from the global recession
Everybody’s looking for a lifeline to pull themselves out of the global downturn. But with giant bailout packages failing to provide stability in the U.S. and grim predictions for the remainder of 2009, what are the emerging opportunities for secure and lucrative investment?
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Peace begins at home
Real alternatives for Canada in Afghanistan
The U.S. imperial project in Afghanistan has faltered. The government created by the United States lacks credibility and legitimacy. The vast majority of the people remain poor. The drug economy is dominant. Despite an increase in NATO military forces, the armed resistance led by the Taliban is increasing in strength. So what should Canada’s response be?
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Mock justice
Why Omar Khadr should walk free
An examination of the Omar Khadr case and why he should walk free.
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Warlords to the left of me, druglords to the right
Afghan Member of Parliament Malalai Joya is stuck in the middle with Canada
Malalai Joya, 29, is a popular women’s rights activist and an outspoken critic of the government of Hamid Karzai and the Northern Alliance.
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What progress for Afghan women?
The use and abuse of feminism to sell Canda’s war in Afghanistan
Today Afghan women are ranked by Human Rights Watch as “among the world’s worst off” by most indicators of social, economic, and political status. What happened? And has the U.S. invasion and NATO occupation improved the situation, or made it worse?
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The shock doctrine
Book review
Book reviews of Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army and Naomi Klein’s, The Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism.
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The Deserter’s Tale: The story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq
Book review
Book review of The Deserter’s Tale: The story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq
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Justice denied
Haitian political prisoners and Canadian development dollars
Who is in jail in today’s Haiti, it seems, has a lot more to do with stifling political dissent than with bringing criminals to justice. And Canada has played a key role
