On March 28, 2008, Naomi Klein gave the keynote address at the event at Canada’s first ever Independent Canadian Jewish Conference, attended by over 100 Jews against the occupation of Palestine from over a dozen organizations in over 20 cities across Canada.

The video of her talk is now online and covers the upcoming 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Israel, the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement, and the significance of the growing Jewish anti-occupation movement in Canada. »»»

This documentary draws from some of the best reports from five The Fifth Estate documentaries and was aired by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) on March 2007 and March 2008.

There is a link to view it on line on the The Fifth Estate CBC web site (click the picture above).

“The Lies That Led To War” provides context to the events of the previous six years, showing how political, diplomatic, media spin – which sometimes crossed the line into outright lies – have been used by the those in power to further their own agendas.

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March 3, 2008
by Malalai Joya, an Afghan MP currently appealing her suspension from the country’s parliament. She spoke to rabble.ca editor Derrick O’Keefe.

After 9/11, unfortunately the United States and its allies like Canada pushed us from the frying pan into the fire, by putting in power the Northern Alliance criminals and warlords. As long as they follow this wrong policy, the situation in Afghanistan will become more disastrous.

Eric Margolis: Manley report on Canada’s role in Afghanistan justifies failing mission
— The Real News network, Wed. Jan. 23rd, 2008.

Manley, a Canadian parliamentarian, had the task of leading a non partisan commission to study the Afghan situation and propose solutions or change. Eric Margolis gives his assessment of the report…

Eric Margolis is a contributing editor for The American Conservative and Sun Media.

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by Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research November 28, 2007

Editors have a mantra, do not look back, move on, write what is current. But sometimes looking back is vital. Those who ignore even the recent past are doomed to understand nothing, sink deeper into quagmires – and bleat again : ‘Why do they hate us’ ?

Looking through material for the book that has been far too long in the making, I found a copy of a letter which I sent to a prominent (UK) Member of Parliament. It is dated November 1993 and clarifies for ever why the invaders were never going to be greeted with ‘sweets and flowers’.

Meridian Hotel, Baghdad, 4th November 1993.
As you know, when I was here in April/May 1992, I thought things could get no worse. Yet in July this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations note in a Report: ”...with deep regret”, all the: “pre-famine indicators being in place”. Further that an appreciable proportion of the population now had less calorific intake than the most famine stricken parts of Africa. That was July. This is apocalypse. This is an internationally sponsored genocide. :: read on >>

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Are assumptions about Iran wrong ?
Monday November 19th, 2007

Suggestions de macaron, pancarte ou signature de courriel :

The War As We Saw It
By: Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck, Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray and Jeremy A. Murphy.
The New York Times 19 August 2007.

After years in hell, these soldiers share to the people of America a political analysis of disconcerting lucidity.

Nous, soldats américains en Irak
Après plusieurs années en enfer, des soldats partagent une analyse politique d’une lucidité déconcertante.

The Black Sites
A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program.
by Jane Mayer, in the New Yorker, August 13, 2007.

Plongée au cœur des prisons secrètes de la CIA
Benoît Vitkine offre un article de qualité, à partir de celui par Jane Mayer (indiqué ci-dessus). Cet article francophone a été publiée par le journal Le Monde ( www.lemonde.fr ) le 7 août 2007.

(Citation) Que s’est-il passé dans les prisons secrètes de la CIA où ont été enfermés nombre de suspects de terrorisme après les attentats du 11 septembre ? Dans son édition datée du 13 août, le magazine américain New Yorker propose une plongée dans ces sites secrets où, malgré les dénégations officielles, la torture semble avoir été pratiquée à grande échelle et de façon systématique. La journaliste, Jane Mayer, appuie son enquête sur un rapport confidentiel du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR), qui a eu accès aux témoignages de quinze suspects désormais détenus à Guantanamo.

Mayors for Peace, with 1,698 city members around the world, is actively campaigning to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2020.

Le 6 août est l’anniversaire de deux crimes contre l’Humanité
• le lancement d’une bombe atomique sur Hiroshima (1945)
• et l’imposition de sanctions économiques inhumaines contre le peuple irakien ayant causé la mort prématurée d’au moins 1 million d’êtres humains (1990-2003).

August 6th the anniversary of two crimes against Humanity
• the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
• and the imposition of inhuman economic sanctions against the people of Iraq which caused the premature death of at least 1 million human beings (1991-2003)

[dossier sur ce blocus / info on this blockade: Siriel-Média ou/or VitW (en anglais)]

Rappelons-nous de ces deux crimes contre l’humanité
Let us remember these two crimes against humanity

- Michaël Lessard, Siriel-Media