More evidence of a pariah Israeli state.

With the melting of the polar ice cap and the opening of the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans for the first time in recorded history, the scramble for the Arctic - reported to contain 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 13 percent of undiscovered oil according to last year's US Geological Society - is underway in earnest. The military value of the navigability of the passage is of an even greater and more pressing significance...

By Glenn Greenwald - Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Could Barack Obama become the first person in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize two consecutive years? It is hard to dispute the premise that awarding him the Prize this year would be every bit as justifiable as last year's award. Fresh off his Nobel-winning escalation of the war in Afghanistan, we now have this monument to world peace...

August 24, 2010

Locally-based activists...are mounting a picket line at the Port of Vancouver's Delta Port facility at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, as part of a mounting international campaign to put pressure on the government of Israel...“The behaviour of the Israeli government has been going from bad to worse...We are going to be out there today to tell Zim and other Israeli companies that their business won't be allowed to continue normally as long as Israel's blockade on Gaza continues...”

By Tim Kennelly - August 25, 2010

On March 13, 2008, Canada's Parliament voted to extend the country's military “mission” in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The war makers correctly estimated that fixing an exit date would deflect mounting opposition to the war among the Canadian public and buy time for Canada's continued participation.

Obama's bogus pullout belies the daily violence in Iraq, a nation destroyed, and belligerently occupied for the duration.

What Washington did to Haitians is being repeated in Pakistan.

This article describes a recent study by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) titled, "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009." The study shows that depleted uranium munitions used by US soldiers in the seige on Fallujah in 2004 is likely causing similar, but even worse, sorts of damage to the people of Fallujah as that found in survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

August 19, 2010 - AFP

The US State Department is to more than double the number of security contractors it employs in Iraq to around 7000, filling a gap left by departing troops...[T]he contractors would be deployed to defend five fortified compounds that will be left behind as US combat forces exit Iraq and the US mission switches from a military-led to a civilian-headed operation.

By Duncan Cameron - August 17, 2010

...Afghanistan is another Vietnam. It is a military disaster, based on faulty political analysis, and it reveals the deep-seated problems within the U.S. ruling class, and its projects for the world...In Afghanistan, Canadians were initially told by the Chrétien government we were peacekeeping...Now in Afghanistan Prime Minister Harper acts as if Canada was the proud inheritor of the 19th-century tradition of British military imperialism.

By Roger Annis - August 8, 2010

...[Canada's] "aid" spending [to Haiti] since 2004 has principally gone to prisons and policing...[Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence] Cannon announced in Haiti on May 8 that unnamed international agencies had decided that Canada's principal contribution to the UN mission in Haiti would continue to be in the realm of “security.”

By JEFF HALPER - August 16, 2010

Nothing stands in the way of completing a system of parallel (though not equal in size and quality) apartheid highways, big ones, going through Palestinian lands, for Israelis; narrow ones for Palestinians. Nothing keeps Israel from expelling Palestinian from their homes so that Jewish settlers can move in – on July 29th nine families living in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, returning home at night from a wedding, found themselves locked out of their homes by settlers and prevented from entering by the police.

By Noam Chomsky - August 13, 2010

The War Logs — a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks — documents a grim struggle becoming grimmer, from the U.S. perspective. And for the Afghans, a mounting horror.

By Lawrence Davidson - August 15, 2010

Israel can no longer assume that they can kill and maim with impunity. This must be frustrating for Netanyahu, Lieberman, et al., bound as they are to a machismo culture and a “never again” world view wherein new variants on the Nazis are seen lurking around every corner. No one, including President Obama, can guarantee rational responses from the Israeli government. It is a dangerous situation.

Israel is suffocating Gaza.