By Jonathan Cook - February 24, 2010

The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago...[T]he cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions.

By Jerome Slater - March 13, 2010

The prospects for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have never been worse...[T]he Obama administration has essentially surrendered. We may be winning the battle for the hearts and minds of a small minority, but we are still losing the much more important battle: to persuade the dominant majority in both the U.S. and Israel of the need for radical changes in Israeli attitudes and behavior towards the Palestinians.

By Eva Golinger - February 15th 2010

In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it "democracy promotion" was born...Through the creation of a series of quasi-private "foundations"...Washington began to filter funding and strategic aid to political parties and groups abroad that promoted the US agenda in nations with insubordinate governments.

By DRU OJA JAY - March 11, 2010

On February 13th, Greenpeace International announced that [it] was hiring ForestEthics founder Tzeporah Berman as director of its global climate and energy campaign. The move has provoked intense outrage among many Greenpeace supporters, staff and activists. The conflict raging within Greenpeace has the potential to be an important first step in addressing two heretofore taboo subjects in the environmental movement: the corrupting influence of corporate cash and the absence of democratic structures.

By MICHAEL DONNELLY - January 15-17, 2010

The top-down nature and utter lack of grounding in a wide-spread, active-participation, place-based citizenry is precisely what's wrong with environmentalism today and why we keep losing...[T]he professionals undermine, drive out or co-opt any such assemblage that arises...usually taking credit for any gains the citizens have achieved. To the non-profit pros, the function of any "membership" consists of writing donation checks, swallowing/parroting false victory claims, signing Petitions and voting lock-step for Lesser Evil Democrats.

By BILL QUIGLEY - March 3, 2010

On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake devastated country...“Aid should be prioritized over security. Any aid agency that’s afraid of Haitians should get out of Haiti.”

By Anthony Fenton - February 24, 2010

"It's now fair to speculate that the [Olympic] Games have been used even more cynically -- as cover for a massive new NATO offensive in Afghanistan that has already claimed many Afghan civilians' lives. Operation Moshtarak, with Canadian Forces participation, was launched in the southern province of Helmand on Feb. 12, the day of the Opening Ceremonies in Vancouver."

-- Vancouver Anti-War activist Derrick O'Keefe writing in rabble.ca

February 16, 2010 - Media Co-op Blog

As a BCCLA member and a friend and ally of the anti-Olympic protesters, I was extremely disappointed to hear about David Eby’s comments to the media regarding Saturday’s protest...Eby...said he was “sickened” by images of Black Bloc members smashing windows and tossing newspaper boxes into the streets...[I]t’s not the job of either Eby or the BCCLA to decide which protesters are “good” and which are “bad” — it’s their job to ensure that the civil liberties of all protesters, peaceful or not, are protected.

By Haroon Siddiqui - February 07, 2010

Canadians worried about what Stephen Harper might do if he were to have a majority should look at what he's doing to Canada's leading human rights agency...To recap the scandal at Montreal-based Rights and Democracy...[Stephen Harper's] allies on its board hound its president, Remy Beauregard, for months. On Jan. 7, they vote to repudiate three small grants to NGOs monitoring human rights violations by both Israel and the Palestinians.

By PETER HALLWARD - January 28, 2010

This is the fourth time the United States has invaded Haiti since 1915. Although each invasion has taken a different form and responded to a different pretext, all four have been expressly designed to restore "stability" and "security" to the island.

By Bahija Reghai - January 23, 2010

Our country is being used as a fly-trap by a propaganda network that churns out and cross-feeds reports and articles for use by those who lobby hard for Israel. Their reach is wide and deep within our political body, be they religious groups such as Charles McVety and his Canada Christian College extremists, or secular groups and individuals...

...Haitian musician Wyclef Jean used his celebrity and the earthquake to raise millions for his own Haitian charity. We make no judgement on the allegations that its book keeping may be irregular. But its worth noting that Wyclef Jean has family ties to the group of gangsters and thugs that the Clinton era CIA installed in office when it removed Haiti's elected president, Jean-Betrand Aristide from office in the 1990s...

By NELSON P. VALDÉS - January 18, 2010

The facts indicate clear priorities: the Haitians are not first in line. In fact, the rescuers seem to have a widespread fear of the poor and desperate Haitians. A Scottish reporter said, "aid workers in Haiti today called for more security amid fears of attacks by increasingly desperate earthquake survivors."

By PATRICK COCKBURN - January 15-17, 2010

So much of the criticism of [previous US] President Bush has focused on his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that his equally culpable actions in Haiti never attracted condemnation. But if the country is a failed state today, partly run by the UN, in so far as it is run by anybody, then American actions over the years have a lot to do with it.

By Ashley Smith - January 16, 2010

...[A]s previous U.S. presidencies have done before, the Obama administration has worked to aid Haiti's elite, sponsor international corporations taking advantage of cheap labor, weaken the ability of the Haitian state to regulate the society, and repress any political resistance to that agenda.