Well, it doesn’t look like President Bush or Vice President Cheney will be visiting Brattleboro, Vermont, after they leave office. The residents of Brattleboro directed town officials to draft indictments against both Bush and Cheney for violating their oaths of office. A vote was then held, with 2012 citizens supporting the indictment and 1795 voting [...]

To be honest, I could probably go on for days about the betrayal of those in New Orleans that have been entirely screwed over by the government, be it local or federal, and the way in which they have been treated while simply attempting to enact their most basic of rights. But the truth is [...]

Interventionism can be a nasty business. In the case of Benazir Bhutto, whose return to Pakistani politics was dramatic, polarizing, and suspiciously timed, it ultimately took her life. True, Bhutto played the role of democratic savior and stood to make a significant impact in the upcoming elections, but despite the tragedy of her death, the [...]

Are you sick and tired of hearing about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Bush Administration? Death tolls, illegalities, indiscretions, lies, spin, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, terrorism, global warming (or its other moniker climate change), tsunamis, hurricanes, Kim Il Sung, nuclear and biological weapons, bird flu virus, blackwater, et. al? Why? Perhaps it’s information overload, [...]

From The Boston Globe… “More than a dozen members of an antiwar veterans group were arrested yesterday as they protested the exclusion of their message from Boston’s Veterans Day parade.Members of Veterans for Peace lined up in front of a podium at City Hall Plaza holding antiwar placards, as color guards from Massachusetts military units and [...]

To begin, from today’s Toronto Star… “The monks of Burma are poor, and they are unarmed, but they exert a life-and-death power over the population,” says Guy Horton, a British-based human rights consultant who has spent a decade collecting evidence of the Burmese military’s atrocities. “This goes much deeper than ideology. The government has tried to buy [...]

There are both good and bad ways to go about instituting democratic change. The negative is, for example, exemplified by the actions taken by the United States with regards to Iraq. The positive is exemplified by the actions recently taken by those in Burma that have employed peaceful means to make their intentions known. It [...]

As promised, I am posting an update about the “full scale riots” predicted by Chief superintendent Steven Cullen at the APEC summit in Sydney. As I mentioned on the 5th, Cullen was warning that protestors would get out of hand and that it would lead to widespread violence… “Chief superintendent Steven Cullen, head of the state [...]

The APEC Summit has returned to its birthplace, Australia, where a small number of people, mostly youths in their school uniforms, peacefully demonstrated the presence of President Bush today in Sydney. Of course, that hasn’t stopped the authorities from insisting that Saturday’s protest, which they believe will attract tens of thousands, will result in a [...]

Two NDP MP’s, Libbry Davies of East Vancouver and Peter Julian of Burnaby-New Westminster, have sent a letter to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day calling for an inquiry into the Montebello security allegations. The letter reads… “Hon. Stockwell Day Minister of Public Safety House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Minister, As Members of Parliament we are writing you with [...]