The Untold Story: Over One Million Civilian Deaths in Iraq
Project Censored calls it "the Number One censored story" of the year. Katie Meyer looks into a British survey of undocumented deaths in Iraq since the U.S. intervention in 2003.
Gwynne Dyer's World
Journalist Gwynne Dyer has a gift for providing a unique perspective on war and conflict. Now he's taking on climate change as well. Metta Spencer gives us an introduction to Dyer's more recent arguments, from why we should leave Afghanistan to why we should embrace geo-engineering.
The Nonviolent Way in Sudan
For several years now, Toronto's Lee McKenna has been working with the Sudanese Organization for Nonviolence and Development (SONAD) in Sudan.
Eastern Congo: Need for Bridge-Builders
The UN has 17,000 peackeepers in the eastern Congo, but is there any peace to keep? René Wadlow calls for deep-rooted reconciliation work which would take on both disarmament and land tenure issues.
Canada After Bush
Brian Adeba, writing for the Rideau Institute, is hopeful for lasting change in the Canada/US relationship. Defence, disarmament, energy, and trade policy will indeed be different under Barack Obama's presidency, but will those changes neccessarily be for the good of all parties?
Military Oaths Confront the Constitution in Khadr Case
The detention centre at Guantanamo Bay should be closed, and it will be very soon. The cases which have already gone to military tribunal - the most notorious being that of child soldier Omar Khadr - should be stopped as well, argues Floyd Rudmin.
After the Mumbai Attacks
Rajan Philips looks at the domestic and regional ramifications of the November 2008 killings and hostage-takings in India's main commercial city.
New Thinking in the Pentagon
Defence analyst Mary Kaldor is cheered by recent trends in the US military, though the "old thinking" - which put force protection first and civilian security last - still has adherants.
The Nakba: Memory, Reality, and Beyond
Elizabeth Raymer attends a conference on the Nakba, or catastrophe - the dispossession of the Palestinians after the Israeli war of independence in 1948.
Reviews: Ken Beller and Heather Chase, Great Peacemakers from Around the World, reviewed by James Applegate; Douglas Roche, Creative Dissent: A Politician's Struggle for Peace, Bernard Lown, Prescription for Survival, reviewed by Mark Leith.
Newsworthy: Runaway global feedback has begun; World leaders launch Global Zero initiative; Poznán Conference ends
The Peace Crossword (in Litsoft .puz format)
