(Share widely) Canada’s spy agency and an RCMP anti-terror unit carried out an intelligence campaign against Ottawa-based punk band The Suicide Pilots, documents obtained through Access to Information requests show.
Archive for May, 2008
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
Canadian Dimension, Tuesday, May 20th, 2008, No Comments »
This was a posting to the left bio discussion group, slightly edited, which may be of interest to others. Helga, my wife and eco-partner was in Brazil this past February to visit family and while there she noticed reviews of the book by British historian/columnist Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA And The World Of Arts And Letters, which had just been published in Portuguese (January 2008) and was being reviewed in the press.
“My Name is Rachel Corrie” staging in Toronto
Canadian Dimension, Monday, May 19th, 2008, 6 Comments »
* Please Post Widely * Limited number of seats available! In 2003 American activist, Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer. She was 23 years old. Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner edited Rachel’s diaries and emails turning them into a play, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie”. The play was produced by the Royal Court Theatre in London where it played to sold out audiences and wide acclaim. Subsequent attempts to mount the play have met with stiff resistance from supporters of Israeli apartheid - including a year ago when a scheduled production at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts was pulled.
Turning Rage Into Reconciliation In Israel
Canadian Dimension, Monday, May 19th, 2008, 1 Comment »
(Huffington Post) I was born and raised in Jerusalem. I had a normal, happy childhood. I came from a liberal, left-wing family, which means I knew something of the situation. I was for peace, but I never saw myself as part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My life and dreams were very far away from all that. The reality of Israeli life helped a lot. Even though I grew up in Jerusalem, the biggest Israeli-Palestinian city, I never met with Palestinians and never talked to them. As far as I was concerned, we lived in different worlds.
Montrealer on making a killing from the food crisis
Canadian Dimension, Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, No Comments »
Hamas Condemns the Holocaust
Canadian Dimension, Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, 2 Comments »
We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression.
Howard Zinn on Radical Change
Canadian Dimension, Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, No Comments »
This brief excerpt from Ziga Vodovnik’s interview with Howard Zinn really captures the essence of what “progressives” like ourselves should be doing:
Postcarbon Age Coming, Top Geophysicist Predicts
Canadian Dimension, Monday, May 12th, 2008, No Comments »
Lucky Us?
I have just today run across a report that leads me for the first time in a long time to pose the following optimistic question. Is it possible that some important events are conspiring in our favour for a change? By “our” in this case I mean to say the world as a whole. It is always important I think to define who it is one means by we.
Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners
Canadian Dimension, Monday, May 12th, 2008, No Comments »
Here is an important article on former US President Jimmy Carter condemning the use of torture in the US and other criticisms of the candidates for the US presidency originally reported in October 10, 2007. It was published in this weekend’s Information Clearing House digest of articles.
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