Finally Something "Thrown" Into Humber Other Than Garbage...

Who made the mystery statues in the Humber River?

Mon Aug 02 2010

Residents were surprised Monday after finding 39 unique stone statuettes had been erected in the Humber River.

Let's Deal With Some Of The Problems At Home AND...

...let Bono, Geldof, Penn, Glover, et al deal with problems in "under developed" countries!

Steer clear of Congo

By PETER WORTHINGTON, QMI Agency

To the dismay of the UN, the NDP and the Toronto Star, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has categorically said “no” to Canada sending a mission and a top general to the Congo.

Aid makes a difference, but Africans must control their own fate

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’ – the continent’s first elected female president – says the positive effect of good governance shows in the stark contrast between her country today and when civil war ravaged the land 

There Seems To Be More To The Hatia Tragedy...

...than telethons, twitter, texting, and tears.

The Militarization Of Emergency Aid To Haiti
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Tuesday, January 19 at 13:12 (377 reads)

The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
by Michel Chossudovsky
Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti's national economy and the impoverishment of its population.

The devastating earthquake is presented to World public opinion as the sole cause of the country's predicament.

A country has been destroyed, its infrastructure demolished. Its people precipitated into abysmal poverty and despair.

Haiti's history, its colonial past have been erased.

The US military has come to the rescue of an impoverished Nation. What is its Mandate?

Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?

Read More » (554 words)  |


 Column: Canada's Haiti: The Dirty Past And The Dirty Future
Contributed by Robin Mathews on Thursday, January 21 at 10:40 (521 reads)

Michael Chossudovsky talks of the militarization of "aid" to Haiti.  Aid will go to Haiti, and the people will be helped back to their status as exploited slave labour for the profit of foreign corporations - and U.S. policy for the region.

Read More » (881 words)