The University of Calgary and the 'Consortium for Peace' have awarded Louise Arbour the Calgary Peace Prize. Perhaps they shouldn't...

Can it really be that the nonsense that has been force-fed us about "Genocide" in Rwanda, isn't true? So says Peter Erlinder and he ought to know.

By Mahmood Mamdani - December 23, 2008

There is no denying Mugabe's authoritarianism, or his willingness to tolerate and even encourage the violent behaviour of his supporters. His policies have helped lay waste the country's economy, though sanctions have played no small part, while his refusal to share power with the country's growing opposition movement, much of it based in the trade unions, has led to a bitter impasse...[Mugabe] has ruled not only by coercion but by consent, and his land reform measures, however harsh, have won him considerable popularity, not just in Zimbabwe but throughout southern Africa.

Defence Lawyers at the UN International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda are requesting all matters at the ICTR be suspended due to manipulation by member states.

The lead Defence lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda makes some interesting comments about Canada's involvment in Rwanda and DRC. Some Canadian heroes may not be. More news CBC will never report.

War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old cliches about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as "news".

Rwandan President Paul Kagame looks closer to eventually having to answer for his crimes.

More than half of people imprisoned at the Detention Center of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, declare themselves "Political Prisoners of the UN".

A French military historian says that Canadian General Romeo Dallaire "failed in his mission" commanding the UN Force in Rwanda in 1994.

By BOKAR TURE and DEDRICK MUHAMMAD - November 12, 2008

Ten years ago, Nov. 15, 1998, Kwame Ture--formerly known as Stokely Carmichael--died. He died as he lived, fighting against social injustice, fighting with every bit of strength, intelligence and charm that was in his body. He died challenging the embargo against Libya and pledging allegiance and thankfulness to radical organizations and leaders like the Nation of Islam, Castro's Cuba, and African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure, who all supported him and more importantly supported the Black liberation struggle to which Kwame Ture dedicated his life.

by Philip Hammond - Friday 7 November 2008

...[T]he problem is not so much the activist’s perennial need for a clear message, as a broader contemporary tendency to treat complex and distant conflicts as a potential source of moral clarity for Western societies. Not just the campaigners, but also journalists, international lawyers and political leaders have sought to turn the war in Darfur into a simplistic moral parable.

By John Pilger - Znet Commmentary

Public services fell in behind privatisation, and low inflation presided over low wages and high unemployment, known as "labour flexibility". According to the [African National Congress], the wealth generated by a new black business class would "trickle down"...[B]lack capitalists proved they could be every bit as ruthless as their former white masters in labour relations, cronyism and the pursuit of profit. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost in mergers and "restructuring" and ordinary people retreated to the "informal economy". Between 1995 and 2000, the majority of South Africans fell deeper into poverty.

by Bruce Dixon - 1 December, 2007

Bruce Dixon is another who makes the case that the “Save Darfur” campaign is more or less a “humanitarian imperialism” front to be used to justify intended neocon oil and resource wars in the African continent, particularly in the resource-rich Sudan.

By Patrick Bond - September 21, 2008

Looking first to South Africa, the dumping of president Thabo Mbeki by Jacob Zuma on Saturday was an excellent reflection of ruling elite fragility in neoliberal regimes...[T]o get the billions of dollars promised in coming months from Western powers and Pretoria, [Morgan] Tsvangirai must tighten the belts of his already starving compatriots, a task requiring far more control of the Zimbabwe state than the patronage-addicted cronies of Robert Mugabe will allow.

By Yves Engler - September 01, 2008

The mainstream media's hypocrisy during the Olympics would have been funny if it weren't so ignorance-producing...So many words written or spoken about human rights violations, lip-synching, suppression of Tibet, taped fireworks, Communist dictatorship, evil Chinese nationalism...Has any media discussed Canada's decades-long support of British imperialism in China?...From historical amnesia concerning Canada-China relations through Tibet and Sudan the media's double standard is glaring...[H]ow about comparing Canada's role in the Congo to China's role in Sudan?