The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam By David Corn | Wed March 12, 2008 12:00 AM PST Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of d...
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
Fragile ceasefire continues in Gaza Officials expected to meet on Sunday Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2009 | 9:21 PM ET Comments0...
The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...
Elections Canada chief won't back down on veiled voting Last Updated: Monday, September 10, 2007 | 12:16 PM ET CBC News Veiled women will not have to show their faces at polling stations in upcoming elections, but theymay be asked for sworn statements in some situations to verify their identities, Ca...
Pentagon probes alleged marine 'rampage' in Iraq Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:43:02 EST CBC News The Pentagon has begun a criminal investigation after graphic videotape surfaced suggesting U.S. marines killed at least 15 unarmed civilians in November in the Iraqi town of Haditha. INDEPTH: ...
US 'must fight for Palestine' by Thursday 15 December 2005 9:54 AM GMT A flag is little use without a functioning state America’s fight against terrorism will fail unless it leads efforts to create a viable Palestinian state, according to the former Australian prime minister. Bob Hawke, speaking on Thursday at a global peace forum in Kuala Lumpur, said: "Nothing effective can be done while the festering sore of the Palestinian problem co...
Banish Iran from UN, Peres demands Last Updated Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:27:45 EDT CBC News Iran should be expelled from the United Nations after calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map," Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Thursday. * INDEPTH: Iran Shimon Perez "Since the United Nations was established in 1945, there has never been a head of state that is a UN member state that publicly called for the elimination...
Israel orders Palestinian land seized by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:27 PM GMT The Israeli barrier in Maale Adumim has Palestinians worried Israel has issued orders to seize Palestinian-owned land to link a main Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem, officials say, a step that could isolate Palestinians from Jerusalem. An Israeli government spokesman on Wednesday said orders were issued t...
US church rebukes Israel for barrier by Sunday 14 August 2005 7:09 AM GMT The wall is splitting the church's Jerusalem assembly into three A five-million-strong US church has rebuked Israel for building a separation barrier along the West Bank, becoming the second major US Protestant denomination to reject policies implemented by the Jewish state. The resolution titled "Peace Not Wall" was adopted on Saturday on a 668-269 vote by members...
Settler-funding a billion dollar question by Friday 12 August 2005 7:05 AM GMT Some believe $60 billion has been pumped into settlements Israel's illegal effort since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to fill the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jews has grown from the scattered actions of zealous squatters into a network of 142 settlements that house nearly 240,000 people. Now that Israel plans to spend $2 billion to dismantle just 25 of these enc...
Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen by Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Thursday 28 July 2005 12:40 PM GMT Six Palestinian protesters were wounded by Israeli forces Palestinians have burned rubber tyres along the trail of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank in a symbolic protest against its ongoing construction under the smokescreen of the Gaza pullout. Black smoke seen rising along the wall's path from the areas of Marda to Qalandi...
Israel razes Palestinian homes by Tuesday 05 July 2005 3:29 PM GMT Several families have lost their homes in the demolition The Israeli occupation army, using bulldozers, has demolished up to 17 homes in the village of Bait Fureik east of Nablus city on the West Bank, leaving tens of families homeless. According to a report quoting local sources, troops also demolished a mosque and school in the area, housing some 450 inhabitants as well...
Israel signals renewed assassinations by Wednesday 22 June 2005 6:44 AM GMT Israel says it will resume its attack on Palestinian fighters Israel has resumed an assassination policy against resistance fighters from the Islamic Jihad group, confirming Palestinian reports of a failed Israeli missile strike in Gaza a day earlier. "There was an attempt in Gaza to intercept an [Islamic Jihad] activist yesterday. It was unsuccessful," Public Se...
Palestinian militant groups step up threat to call off ceasefire 12:12 PM EDT Jun 13 IBRAHIM BARZAK GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - After a four-month lull in fighting, Palestinian militant groups on Monday stepped up a threat to withdraw from a ceasefire with Israel but stopped short of pulling out of the deal. The militant factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, accused Israel of violating the truce with continued military operations. ...
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/29/gaza-050529.html This is another example at the inbalance of journalism. This article describes 1 attack on Palestinians and mentions attacks carried about my resistance fighters from Palestine in recent days but for example they left out the incident where Israel recently killed civilians. The story also left out the fact that two women were hit in the attack although Aljazeera covered this aspect of the story:...
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050520/w052036.html I do not get this one. The US is the country who actually sent Arar to Syria, though he was a Canadian citizen, shouldn't the US be blamed too? They have been found to have been torturing people which is clearly against the Geneva conventions yet I don't see any action being taken against them. The illegal invasion (says Koffi Annan) of Iraq should be enough. The US continues to defy international law yet there are c...
A Filthy Man By Areeb Yasir Recently, I witnessed the tragic separation of a daughter and her parents. A grossly incompetent husband stripped her of her last esteem and tore this wonderful woman from her loving parents. Why? How? Simply put, this filthy man bluntly told her parents ‘don’t ever call your daughter again.’ And than, he took her and his two daughters to a different province, where she knows no one; where he can further hinder her helpless. After performing Haj...
Helping Afghanistan will protect Canada, says top soldier http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/15/hillier-attack050715.html I am very proud and impressed at the common sense approach our fellow Canadians have responded to these ridiculous statements Mr Hillier made. (people's comments here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/yourspace/hillier_afghans.html) I think every letter I read there got it right and it is comforting to k...
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