Special to Canadian Dimension July 23,2008

I don’t believe in capital punishment - as a rule. But I’m willing to make a few exceptions for our fearless leaders, indeed all the fearless leaders, who have so willingly prosecuted the totally bogus ‘war on terror’; who have, under the banner of peace, democracy and civilization, waged a ruthless campaign of war, terror and barbarism. Now, truth to tell, I would likely give a moments pause before the gallows floor gaped open - on general humanitarian grounds you understand - though the obscene roll-call of their crimes would, I suspect, soon seal the court’s resolve. (Keep reading…)

Ha‚aretz
29/06/2008

The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed. (Keep reading…)

Georgia Straight       July 17, 2008

  In June 2007, the Palestine Media Collective produced a newspaper parody of the Vancouver Sun that satirized CanWest’s anti-Palestinian bias with articles such as “Study Shows Truth Biased Against Israel” by Cyn Sorsheep. Six months later, CanWest Mediaworks Publications Inc. launched a lawsuit against those “conspiring” to produce and distribute the parody. The original writ named Mordecai Briemberg, Horizon Publications, and six Jane and John Does. (Keep reading…)

Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com July 13, 2008

The American Association of Jurists (AAJ), a non-governmental organisation with consultative status at the United Nations Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC), condemns the use of excessive force by the Canadian Border Services Agency against two Indigenous grandmothers. (Keep reading…)

CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html
July 8, 2008

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist known for his support of the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terror, has subjected himself to waterboarding. (Keep reading…)

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2008/07/01/targeting-journalists/

July 1st, 2008

The killing of Gaza-based Palestinian Reuters cameraman received considerable attention 2.5 months ago. Filming at the site of shelling in Gaza earlier in the day, Fadel Shana was himself targeted by shelling from the very tanks he was filming. After the incident, with international outcry from rights groups, journalists associations, and individuals, Israel promised to look into his death. (Keep reading…)

http://www.countercurrents.org/leopold180608.htm

18 June, 2008 Countercurrents.org

Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at Guantanamo less than a month before the Justice Department issued two now repudiated memorandums that gave interrogators legal cover to employ the tactics, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Keep reading…)

28/05/08 “TruthDig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080527_where_is_the_outrage/ “

Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It’s a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0805/final.pdf on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department’s inspector general. (Keep reading…)

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian May 26, 2008 (Keep reading…)

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C79EA32A-392D-4475-AD2D-C60458F256DA.htm

Aljazeera, May 23, 2008 (Keep reading…)