RCMP Mistrust of the Public on Display with Olympic Security Preparations
By Charlie Smith - February 3, 2010
It's obvious why the RCMP are putting on a big show for the journalists. It's known as "target hardening"--sending a message to potential terrorists and activists that disrupting the Winter Games is not worth the effort because their efforts are doomed to fail...My biggest concern isn't the terrorists. It's the police.
Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice
Five years of savage torture has destroyed her humanity.
Anti-Poverty Protesters Say 'Give Us a Home, Not the Olympics'
"We Better Be Ready": 2010 Resistance Anticipates a Rough Ride
Blood Lust and Bragging Rights
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - February 8, 2010
The wanton slaughter of wildlife for the fun of killing creates hostility toward firearms among the general public...Many Americans have an aversion to people who get their jollies by murdering animals. Banning guns becomes a way to protect wildlife...We need the Second Amendment for our own protection and for our constitutional rights...An armed population is not compatible with the police state that President Bush and the Republicans created and that President Obama and the Democrats have ratified.
5ieme internationale
par Federico Fuentes - 2 décembre 2009
Venezuela lance l'appelle pour tenir le 5ieme internationale, pour la construction "d'un socailisme du 21 siecle".
Harper's Gang of Seven Provide a Glimpse of his Right Wing Politics
By Haroon Siddiqui - February 07, 2010
Canadians worried about what Stephen Harper might do if he were to have a majority should look at what he's doing to Canada's leading human rights agency...To recap the scandal at Montreal-based Rights and Democracy...[Stephen Harper's] allies on its board hound its president, Remy Beauregard, for months. On Jan. 7, they vote to repudiate three small grants to NGOs monitoring human rights violations by both Israel and the Palestinians.
Independent Media Reporter Rejected at Border, Detained by Border Agents and Denied Outside Contact
For Immediate Release – Saturday, February 6, 2010
Martin Macias Jr., an independent media reporter from Chicago traveling to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC, has been rejected by Canadian border agents and held without outside contact for at least 7 hours...Macias...was a leading member of No Games Chicago - which successfully opposed Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
City Denies Protest Permit to 2010 Welcoming Committee, Informs Police
By Carlito Pablo - January 28, 2010
With or without approval from city hall, anti-Olympic activists will hold a rally on the afternoon of February 12 on the north lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery. They will then march to B.C. Place, which will be hosting the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Games that evening...“We’re going to exercise our democratic rights as Canadians to protest...”
Not All Native Band Councils in BC Support Olympics
Thousands of Civilians Flee Afghan Region as Nato Plans Onslaught
Anti-Olympic Forces Plan "Massive Disruption" of Opening Ceremonies
March 4th: Occupy Everything! [California]
The call has gone out. On March 4th, students, workers and teachers throughout the nation and across the globe will strike.
Israel Feels Under Siege
By Robert Fisk - February 06, 2010
Forget Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the 15,000 Lebanese and Palestinian dead. Forget the Sabra and Shatila massacre that same year...And forget, of course, the more than 1,300 Palestinians slaughtered by Israel in Gaza last year...Israel...is now under an even more dangerous, near-unprecedented attack...That was the dreary, familiar, hopelessly misunderstood theme at the 10th annual Herzliya conference of diplomats, Israeli civil servants, military gold braid and government yesterday.
Top 10 Problems with America Assassinating Americans (or Anyone Else)
By DAVID SWANSON - February 5-7, 2010
Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you engage in them frequently. Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.


