Corporate billionaires and war-profiteers of all countries depend on our ignorant allegiances to the ideologies that keep them in power – but there is no hope of survival if we continue to play their perverse lifeboat-game.

“And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out…” (LK 19:40) So it has come to this. A Disney-esque storyline is [...]

We’ve heard that the cover-up is worse than the scandal, but we’ve moved far beyond mere scandal. These are cover-ups of things that subvert the entire nature of “civilized” humankind: like the true scope of [...]

In an article titled, Hamid Karzai’s Rebellion, Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation reports: “President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, the almost classic definition of a pawn […in] a series of angry, frustrated outbursts, […] has declared [...]

Over the past months the world has been watching the Americans, and especially President Barack Obama, to see if democracy and the rule of law will continue to decompose in the tomb or resurrect and [...]

Banks create biggest financial crash since Depression, receive $700+ billion in taxpayer-funded bailout, subsequently cease all lending while raising credit card interest rates/fees to record levels! President Obama extends war in Afghanistan to include relentless [...]

What is it about “intelligence” that seems to bring out the stupid in our National Security agencies? The infamous memo of August 6, 2001, presented at President George W. Bush’s Daily Briefing, was actually titled, [...]

Don’t you love how these guys pull “5 years” out of their asses, when in fact the future of the rest of his fraudulently-acquired term – let alone Afghanistan itself – is less assured than [...]

Just what is going on in Afghanistan? Any “news” that can be trusted is damn scarce. We have heard about the car-bombings that have killed over 300 people. We have heard that two military helicopters [...]

Le 13 juin dernier, dans une prison de Kandahar, près d’un millier de détenus dits «talibans» se sont évadés. De l’extérieur, des complices ont propulsé un camion piégé sur la porte principale, tuant du coup [...]

Notre article du mois de décembre traitait de la question intérieure afghane comme point de départ d’une intervention étrangère, en l’occurrence celle de l’URSS1. Mais quelles ont été les contraintes et les attentes du pouvoir [...]

Le débat international sur la pertinence de la mission en Afghanistan fait rage depuis plusieurs années maintenant. Le cas canadien en témoigne largement. Il faut savoir que, tout au long de son histoire, l’Afghanistan a [...]

La légitimité de la mission du Canada en Afghanistan bénéficie de moins en moins du soutien populaire. Divisée entre le fragile équilibre qui encadre l’action et la motivation, l’opinion nationale se questionne sur les raisons [...]

Alors que le traitement médiatique de l’Afghanistan se concentre sur les pertes de l’armée canadienne ou l’action des insurgés, de grands pans de l’occupation sont passés sous silence. La réorganisation économique du pays fait partie [...]