Pat Robertson indicates that Haiti has been cursed ever since the Haitians signed a pact with the devil for their independence. He is alluding to the ceremony of the Bois Caiman that was held in Haiti during the night of August 14th, 1791 under the guidance of the Jamaican-born Voodoo Priest Dutty Bookman.

This article by James Ridgeway is featured at a brand new website focusing on the issue of solitary confinement in prisons. The Solitary Watch News site is part of an emerging project called Solitary Watch, an innovative public web site aimed at bringing this issue out of the shadows and into the light of the public square.

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF - January 6, 2010

The Tiger Woods saga has now taken on more interesting dimensions by laying bare some deep seated prejudices...Speaking on Fox News Sunday, [Fox newsman Brit] Hume said that the virtuoso golf player should convert to Christianity because Buddhism had no place for “redemption”...“I don't think that [Buddhism] offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith...[Tiger], turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - December 30, 2009

It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US invasion of Iraq, a military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. An “Iranian nuke” is just another canard behind which hides an undeclared agenda...The US wants war with Iran in order to expand US world hegemony.

By Ramzy Baroud - December 25, 2009

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can...turn ugly...if the French government doesn't get a grip on reality. The world, including France...cannot be co-opted to fit national specificities determined by a group of irritable far right racists...Unfortunately, France is not alone; it merely highlights the most obvious manifestation of growing anti-Muslim sentiments throughout Europe.

By Hanna Kawas - Dec. 24, 2009

Successive Canadian governments have supported the Zionist project, the creation and maintenance of the state of Israel, and the accompanying military expansion and trampling of Palestinian human and national rights...As such, Canada must be held directly responsible for the dispossession of the Palestinian people and the ensuing suffering of the Palestinian refugees.

By Les Whittington - December 19, 2009

The United Church of Canada and other Canadian churches are demanding Prime Minister Stephen Harper explain why one of his cabinet ministers accused them of being anti-Semitic..."It's a horrible charge to make, and to do it with so little thought cheapens the reality of anti-Semitism in the world and diminishes the very careful attention that it deserves..."

Washington's jihad against Muslims.

Celebrating Indigenous Cultural Resistance!

The kickoff for Indigenous Sovereignty Week in Ottawa, followed by a week of events focused on Indigenous struggles for justice.

Join us in celebrating Indigenous knowledge and culture through traditional and contemporary performance.

Celebrating Cultural Resistance!
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 at 2pm
Odawa Friendship Centre

By Antony Lerman - Monday 5 October 2009

When the self-hating Jew allegation is levelled at someone with the degree of integrity of Judge Goldstone...and is orchestrated by the Israeli government and prominent Jewish leaders and commentators, the ugly desperation of the accusers is laid bare. Regrettably, given the appalling state of public debate about antisemitism and Israel-Palestine among Jews, no matter how clearly and how often the charge of Jewish self-hatred is shown to be nothing more than a political and personal insult that demeans the accuser and demonises the accused, it won't be going away any time soon.

By JONATHAN COOK - October 7, 2009

Tension over control of the Haram al Sharif compound of mosques in Jerusalem’s Old City has reached a pitch unseen since clashes at the site sparked the second intifada nine years ago...Ten days of intermittently bloody clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem culminated yesterday in warnings by Palestinian officials that Israel was “sparking a fire” in the city.

By JONATHAN COOK - September 7, 2009

The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews...The advertisements...are designed to stop assimilation through intermarriage among young diaspora Jews by encouraging their move to Israel...It is just one of several initiatives by the Israeli state and private organizations to try to increase the size of Israel’s Jewish population.

By DEVIN BEAULIEU - September 4-6, 2009

The head of the [Bolivian] Islamic Center, Mahmud Amer Abusharar, an elderly grey haired Palestinian refugee sitting in his front office appeared humorously bewildered when presented with recent US intelligence and media reports detailing him, among others, in a study of “extremist threats” in Bolivia.

By David F. Noble - Znet

...[This] case has never been about religion but about power. Throughout history those with power in society have privileged their own beliefs and rituals above those of the powerless. My challenge to York's discriminatory practice was prompted by and taken on behalf of students whose observances were not privileged...Over the course of five years the challenge has revealed as never before the domain and dimensions of power at York University.

By M. SHAHID ALAM - August 21-23, 2009

...Zionists would have to acquire a homeland: they would have to expropriate territory that belonged to another people. In other words, a homeless nationalism, of necessity, is a charter for conquest and...for ethnic cleansing...If the Palestinians could not be bribed to leave, they would have to be forced out. The Zionists were determined to reenact in the middle of the twentieth century the exclusive settler colonialism of an earlier epoch.