Articles

The year 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories during the 1967 war. In this exchange with freelance journalist Tommaso Segantini, Norman Finkelstein, renowned scholar and political activist, and author of – among other works – “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict” and “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of (…)

In the “multiple Indias” where firebrand social activist Aruna Roy has earned herself a world-wide reputation for integrity and commitment, women of all castes, classes and creeds come together more easily than anyone else in the struggle for rights, justice and for constant deepening of democracy. This theme emerged from a well-focused and hard-hitting 2-hour talk and Q&A she delivered (…)

Executive Summary The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School has documented troubling incidents of violence associated with Canadian mining companies in Latin America. In general, neither the Canadian government nor industry are monitoring or reporting on these incidents. What we found about the degree of violence and criminalization (…)

COLOMBO: The common cause of the National Unity Government to tackle the corruption of the past and to put an end to it in the present seemed to come apart at the seams when President Maithripala Sirisena made an angry critique of the way in which the investigations into corruption was taking place. The resignation of Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or (…)

The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative celebrates the tremendous success of the Iraqi Social Forum and The Baghdad Marathon for Peace in Iraq (22-24 September 2016, Baghdad). Where can you go to talk freely with Iraqis of Shia, Sunni, Kurdish, Palestinian, Christian, Eziidi, International and many other backgrounds about equality, civil and human rights, solidarity, unemployment and (…)

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women As we approach the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we are reminded that the greatest form of violence on the largest scale that women suffer is from wars of aggression, militarism and occupation. This day was originally enshrined by the UN to mark the assassination of the Mirabal sisters in (…)

Let the sons and daughters of Haryana develop as a hundred flowers bloom. Universities must support creative endeavour to enable cultural renaissance and human development. I have had a soft corner since my student days in India for Haryana’s economic, political and cultural development. My first piece of research, my MA dissertation, was on Haryana agriculture with a focus on the (…)

Elizabeth May’s recent crackdown on her own Green Party membership over its support for Palestinian human rights parallels mainstream oppression by Canada’s other political parties against Palestinian human rights work. At its July convention the Green Party of Canada’s GPC) membership adopted a resolution (1) calling for an end to Israel’s settlement building program in the occupied (…)

PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has perhaps done all that he could to draw the international community’s attention to the Kashmiri people’s ordeal. He and members of his large entourage spoke of India-held Kashmir to whoever they met in New York. By all accounts offered by our media services, the Kashmir mission, carried out with unusual vigour, went off well — this despite a slight slip while (…)

An army of newsroom warriors used the Uri attack to create one illusion after another Security anxieties spiked after the September 18 suicide attack on an army post near Uri in northern Kashmir. But help was at hand from the Indian media. As the 18 army personnel killed in the raid were sanctified as “martyrs”, two months of strife in Kashmir were quickly effaced from public memory. (…)