By Joe Emersberger - October 11, 2008

[Human Rights Watch] has routinely ignored critics who have shown that it has increasingly become a tool of US imperialism. Ed Herman, David Peterson and George Szamuely wrote [a] very extensive and damning assessment of HRW's role as a "campaigner for the NATO Wars in the Balkans"...Jonathan Cook, Norman Finkelstein and Sara Founders have highlighted flagrant imperial bias in HRW statements involving Israel...The important thing is to spread awareness of the role [HRW] have increasingly come to play as a group that marshals support among liberals for very nasty imperial projects.

Links to stories and video by Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, SD on the tragic suicide epidemic involving Lakota youth and young adults

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 Edward S. Herman - October 3, 2008

If the Russians (or Chinese) had entered into a military alliance with Mexico, supplied it with arms and military advisors, used a Russian or Chinese version of the "National Endowment for Democracy" and other agents to bring about political change in Mexico (recall that Mexico has had a series of elections won by fraud), and perhaps put some ABMs in place to protect Mexico against a possible threat from Colombia, can you imagine the frenzy of U.S. politicos and the "free press?"

by Khaled Amayreh - September 24th, 2008

Nahom Barnea is a prominent Israeli journalist and regular columnist at the mass-circulation newspaper, Yediot Ahronot. On Friday, 19 September, he revealed shocking details of a recent “security coordination” meeting between Israeli and Palestinian [Administration] security commanders...The following is a verbatim translation of Barnea’s report as published in Yediot Ahronot:

A special tribute to Project Censored's important work.

Project Censored releases it's annual list of the top 25 under-reported, "censored" stories from the last year. Individual links are included for all 25 stories.

by Tom Blackwell - Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Afghan journalist who was freed this week after almost a year in an American jail on undefined terrorism allegations said yesterday that his hellish ordeal was as much the fault of Canadian Forces as those of the U.S....Citing comments from his U.S. captors, Jawed Yazamy said he believes it was Canada that tipped off U.S. troops to arrest him in October 2007 when he worked for [Canadian television's] CTV News as a translator and reporter.

By Robert Fisk - September 28, 2008

Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the safety of a hotel in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer, he is a figure of both dignity and shame. The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year - after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers...

By John Pilger - Znet Commentary

Reality can be detected...by applying the Orwell Rule and inverting public pronouncements and headlines, such as "Aggressor Russia facing pariah status, US warns", thereby identifying the correct pariah; or by crossing the invisible boundaries that fix the boundaries of political and media discussion. "When truth is replaced by silence," said the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "the silence is a lie."

September 23, 2008 - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

OTTAWA — Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released The Harper Record, the most comprehensive analysis of the Conservative minority government’s record to date..."Contrary to the general perception that this has been a moderate government, this book reveals that it, in fact, has taken significant steps to transform Canada in a very short time. Harper's very conservative vision has been advanced across a broad range of policies. It is a deeply troubling prelude of things to come"...

by GRAEME SMITH - September 22, 2008

In the U.S. military cells where he saw daylight only once a week, where he says they broke his ribs with beatings, his captors gave him a nickname: "the Canadian reporter"...His formal designation was a detainee number: 3370...Jawed Ahmad...wants to rebuild his career and the working name that made him famous among Canadian journalists: Jojo...Mr. Ahmad was publicly named an "enemy combatant" by the U.S. military in February, but unlike most such prisoners, his case was watched closely by lawyers, journalists and diplomats.

Remembering one of the true greats. Said is sorely missed when we need him most.

About 50 people showed up to protest the "Canada Pacific Spirit Train" event Sunday in the Vancouver suburb of Port Moody. Taking a position in front of the main stage, the group carried signs and placards, and a large banner that read "Resist 2010: No Olympics on Stolen Native Land."

Federico Fuentes

Four retired and one active Venezuelan military officials have been arrested, a further 33 questioned and the US ambassador expelled in the wake of the September 10 revelation of a planned coup and assassination attempt against President Hugo Chavez.