To label the following revolting and a gross miscarriage of justice is too slight. It is simply utterly inhuman. From the BBC… “An Israeli soldier has been removed from duty and jailed for two weeks for refusing to allow a Palestinian woman in labour to pass through a checkpoint. The soldier was in command at the checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Nablus. The woman was trying to reach a hospital in the city. She was forced to give birth at the checkpoint. Her baby was stillborn. The ...More »

What am I doing up at this hour? I have no clue. I went to bed at 10:30 and my eyes thrust open at 3am and I haven’t been able to go back to sleep. So I ordered up some tea and thought I’d write a bit. The United States has said that it will allow the Israelis to use US airbases in Iraq and Iraqi airspace in the event of a strike against Iran. It would seem that the Iraqi government has absolutely no say ...More »

Despite the fact that it’s absolutely beautiful here in Toronto today, this entry is going to be quite the opposite. First up on the agenda… Afghanistan According to the International Red Cross, some 250 Afghan civilians have been killed or wounded by coalition and insurgent attacks in the last six days alone. Not surprisingly, with regards to the recent bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, the Taliban has denied involvement. So too has the United States with regards to air strikes that have claimed the lives ...More »

The New York Times recently learned from US officials that the Israeli military conducted an exercise over the Eastern Mediterranean involving more than 100 aircraft. The purpose? To firm up target packages were Israel to preemptively strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Of course, were they to actually preemptively attack Iran it would, as the IAEA’s Mohamed ElBaradei recently stated, most likely lead to the Iranians implementing a crash program in an attempt to acquire a nuclear deterrent as quickly as possible. Obviously the Israelis, most likely ...More »

When madmen open their mouths these days the severity of their words tends to get more attention depending on where they’re from. For example, what do you think the response would be were a high ranking Iranian official to utter the following… “A top Iranian official has said that if Israel continues with its alleged nuclear arms programme, Iran will attack it.” First, spare me the tired argument that Ahmadinejad claimed that Israel should be wiped off the face of the map. Despite the fact that the ...More »

The following is an open letter sent from Mordechai Vanunu to The People's Voice... "Dear Editors I am Mordechai Vanunu, the man who told the truth about Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program in 1986 and paid with 18 years of my life in Isreali Prison. I was released in April 2004, but Israel denied me my human rights of free speech and freedom of movement - not allowed to leave since 1986, until now 2008. On July 8, 2008, I will return to court to appeal a new 6 ...More »

It’s no secret that former President Jimmy Carter has his detractors. His more recent attempts to confront the problems plaguing Israeli - Palestinian relations have drawn scorn from many quarters, with many labeling him anti-Israeli. And now, during remarks made at the recent Hay-on-Wye festival, he has done what no American President has ever dared to do – openly state that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. Despite the fact that within the international intelligence community it is widely known that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal that ...More »

It’s eight o’clock in the morning. I have no idea what I am doing up, other than the fact that I went to bed pretty early. I watched The Other Boleyn Girl last night after rehearsal and prior to passing out. Why is it that no one can portray the Tudors with any historical accuracy? Recent Catastrophes Matters in China are looking grimmer by the day, as are conditions in Burma. One searches for words to put such catastrophes into context, but there are few. The ...More »

Since the advent of the nuclear age, only two nuclear weapons have ever been employed, both in August of 1945 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While many will argue that their use was required to avoid directly invading the Japanese islands, an effort that the government and military at the time claimed would cost the lives of upwards of a million US soldiers, the reality was that most of Japan has been decimated by conventional fire bombing, that the government of Japan ...More »

If you’re labouring under the misconception that the Bush Administration is going to leave office without first confronting the Iranians, it’s time to start paying serious attention. The propaganda machine is in full swing, led by a new report by the State Department that labels Iran the most active sponsor of terrorism. If you can believe it, the Sudanese government actually ranked lower despite the fact that it has been complicit in supporting the Janjiweed who have been responsible for a genocidal campaign in Darfur. ...More »