Uniting for Change as Israel Turns 60
Progressive Canadians of Jewish descent organize to tackle the big issues in the Middle East. By Diana Ralph.
At the Peaceful Games
Already fed up with hearing about the Beijing Olympics? John Cooper is a supporter of a small-scale alternative celebration, the International Children's Games.
Poppy for Medicine
Hospitals in the developing world can't get enough essential painkillers -- morphine and codeine -- for their needs. Meanwhile, farmers in southern Afghanistan grow vast fields of opium poppies, which the US military is forcibly eradicating through aerial spraying and burning. Norine MacDonald of the Senlis Council talked with Peace Magazine editor Metta Spencer recently about the drug trade, the war in Afghanistan, and human security.
Banning Cluster Bombs
Cluster bombs were left out of the Ottawa Treaty which banned anti-personnel mines, but now they too have been outlawed. René Wadlow, who's been working for a ban for nearly 30 years, tells us more about the Dublin Treaty.
Kosovo and its Discontents
The February 17, 2008 declaration of independence has not solved Kosovo's chronic problems, and much of the hope which was aroused during the 1990s nonviolent resistance has faded, writes Howard Clark.
Think Tank for Activists: Inside the Rideau Institute
It's new, it's all over the internet, and it's making an impact on policymakers and the media (above , director Steve Staples at an event for the 10th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty on landmines). Can it change the way the peace movement sees itself? Brian Adeba on Ottawa's Rideau Institute.
Not Quite a Conspiracy: Networks of Power
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Achord Rountree have been researching the ways in which corporations and governments maintain cosy relationships with one another, with particular emphasis on the United States.
Preparing for Peace
Ramya Ramanathan was at the Campaign for a Department of Peace's national meeting, and tells us how the notion of a government department dedicated to peace is catching on among politicians as well as at the grassroots.
Impeaching George Bush
Congressman Dennis Kuchinich has tabled a bill in the US House of Representatives to impeach the President. Why are the media remaining quiet about this story?
Reviews: Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang, The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar, reviewed by James Applegate; Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide and Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present, reviewed by Judith Deutsch.
Newsworthy: Commons says "Let US war resiters stay"; 21st century prison hulks; Radarsat sale blocked
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