by Richard Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade A Canadian Brigadier General, Nicolas Matern, has just arrived in Baghdad. This former commander of Canada’s Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit is the deputy commander of the US 18th Airborne… Read moreCANADA’S “OPEN SECRET”: DEEP COMPLICITY IN THE IRAQ WAR
Continue ReadingCANADA’S “OPEN SECRET”: DEEP COMPLICITY IN THE IRAQ WARTen alleged terrorists, mostly Arabs, were killed and seven others injured in a missile strike on a house near the village Kaloosha, South Waziristan, near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan Feb. 27. A “security source” told the Italian news agency AGI… Read morePakistan: another US air-strike?
Angry protests against rising food prices in Burkina Faso spread to the capital, Ouagadougou, Feb. 28, shutting the city down as young people burned tires and clashed with police. “The choice is to demonstrate or to die of hunger,” a… Read moreProtests rock Burkina Faso
Three were killed by security forces in Cameroon Feb. 28 as anti-government protests broke out in the western towns of Bamenda and Bafang. Up to 20 are believed dead in unrest earlier in the week in the western region and… Read moreProtests rock Cameroon
Following approval by both houses of Congress, President Bush Feb. 29 signed a 10-month extension of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), designed to discourage Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia from producing illegal drugs by allowing the four countries to… Read moreWhite House extends Andean trade preferences, threatens Bolivia, Ecuador
On Feb. 28, Bolivia’s National Congress narrowly approved holding a national referendum on a new constitution drawn up by supporters of President Evo Morales. The vote, setting the referendum for May 4, was boycotted by the opposition, which had been… Read moreBolivian congress sets constitutional referendum; opposition calls vote illegitimate
