Review by Ian Sinclair - December 12, 2008

The overarching thesis of The Thin Blue Line is that starting in the 1990s certain traditionally neutral humanitarian organisations have become increasingly politicised, often advocating international military interventions during grave humanitarian crises. For example [author Conor Foley] describes how CARE played a significant role in mobilizing support for western intervention in Somalia and Haiti, while Oxfam and Human Rights Watch supported military action against Serbia in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars...

Everyone's Downstream II: Stop Playing Games With Our Lives
To be held November 22nd, 23rd at

The Edmonton Native Friendship Centre
11205 101 Street NW

This event is co-presented by OilSandsTruth.org [OST] with the Indigenous Environmental Network [IEN]

And on Friday November 21, 2008 at the University of Alberta:

By John Gibler - October 22, 2008

On October 27, 2006, Brad Will stood on Juarez Avenue in the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was filming a violent clash between armed, civilian-clad municipal police and officials and members of the Oaxaca Peoples' Popular Assembly, or APPO...Brad stood amongst the APPO protesters and other journalists... [and] was shot and fell to the ground, his camera still running and having recorded the sound of the shot that hit him...Brad died on the way to the hospital...Two years later, on October 16, 2008, the Mexican federal government arrested two members of the APPO, and charged Juan Manuel Martinez as the gunman and Octavio Perez with helping to cover up Brad's murder.

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.

By Palestinian [Organisations] - October 05, 2008

We, the undersigned Palestinian refugee organizations, civil society movements and institutions in the Palestinian homeland and in exile are national organizations working to defend the right of return. We appeal to you now because we are convinced that the alignment of the official Palestinian position and the position of the Palestinian people with regards to the final status negotiation issues is of the highest priority. Foremost among these issues is the cause of the Palestinian refugees.

by Haider Rizvi - September 18, 2007

Who in Bolivia is receiving millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars? That is what many Latin America policy analysts in Washington want to know...[Independent researcher and writer Jeremy] Bigwood has made several attempts to obtain detailed information about the nature of current U.S. spending in Bolivia, without success...However, one [Freedom of Information Act] request he filed revealed that the quasi-governmental National Endowment for Democracy had funded programmes that brought 13 young 'emerging leaders' from Bolivia to Washington between 2002 and 2004 to strengthen their right-wing political parties.

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF - June 9, 2008

The mainstream press has completely failed to analyze McCain’s long term involvement in the Iraq imbroglio. If they were to delve too deeply, the corporate pundits would have to confront the uncomfortable truth that the military-industrial complex and the oil industry have played an integral role in the invasion and occupation. Surrounding the whole affair are shady figures such as Black, Scheuneman and Jackson and unscrupulous companies like Chevron, Blackwater and Lockheed Martin. At the center of the vortex are none other than [the International Republican Institute] and John McCain.