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Moving call to bring Canada's non-status refugee claimants out of the shadows

rabble staff — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:56:48 +0000

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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"The police arrested me for jaywalking. They handed me over to the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), which locked me up for four days with many others at one of their detention centres. They threatened to deport me."

Her voice breaking down in sobs, the diminutive woman spoke in Spanish, behind a doggy-faced green mask.

Five women, all wearing white masks, faced the media to read an open letter delivered to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office asking him to take a stand on undocumented refugee claimants in Canada.

NATO's wars in the Middle East hit home in France

rabble staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:23:49 +0000

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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"We are at war," declared French President François Hollande after the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris. "And we'll be merciless." French politicians and media joined in the chorus, singing "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem.

No, in reality, the war has hit home, big time.

"We are at war," declared French President François Hollande after the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris. In reality, the war has hit home, big time.

République centrafricaine, une autre 'guerre de pillage' sur le modèle du Congo-Kinshasa

rabble staff — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:14:46 +0000

Thursday, October 29, 2015

La clé de la sanglante crise qui s'aggrave en République centrafricaine (RCA) ne se trouve pas dans le conflit armé entre chrétiens et musulmans, comme le martèlent nos médias liés à de puissants intérêts des pays de l'OTAN/OCDE, incluant le géant minier canadien.

Cette clé, elle se trouve dans la géostratégie de cette RCA grande comme la France, son ex-colonisatrice, et riche en ressources peu exploitées (diamants, or, uranium, pétrole, potentiel hydraulique, agriculture, et des terres arables qui attisent de puissantes convoitises extérieures).

La clé de la sanglante crise qui s'aggrave en République centrafricaine ne se trouve pas dans le conflit armé entre chrétiens et musulmans, comme le martèlent nos médias liés à de puissants intérêts.

Central African Republic: Another 'looting war' on the model of the Congo-Kinshasa next door

rabble staff — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:20:50 +0000

Monday, October 19, 2015

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The key to the bloody crisis worsening in the Central African Republic (CAR) does not lie in the armed conflict between Christians and Muslims, as encapsulated and repeated ad nauseam by our corporate media linked to powerful interests in NATO/OECD countries -- including mining giant Canada.

Since a 2013 coup d'état, the Central African Republic has registered more than 6,000 dead, and more than one million refugees and displaced persons, in a war fed by corporate interests and weapons.

The U.S.-Iran nuclear deal: A pivotal return to diplomacy in world affairs

rabble staff — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:46:46 +0000

Monday, December 2, 2013

What happened in Geneva last month between Iran and the UN Security Council P-5 plus Germany was more than just a deal on the right to peaceful nuclear technology; it was, for the NATO P-3 (U.S., U.K., France) certainly, a pivotal return to diplomacy in world affairs after decades of knee-jerk first use of arms as weapon of choice in "resolving" conflicts.

Following in the wake of the Russia-brokered agreement on the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, the Iran deal confirms that the U.S. administration has finally and effectively decided (for how long?) to break with the war-mongering strategy of its predecessors, including one-term "peace" president Jimmy Carter -- under whose watch began the Iranian Revolution and the Jihadi war that continues in Afghanistan.

The Iran deal confirms that the U.S. administration has finally and effectively decided to break with the war-mongering strategy of its predecessors -- but for how long?

Funny things keep happening on the way to the war on Syria

rabble staff — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:12:13 +0000

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Funny things on the way to the war on Syria have been happening ever since the war in Syria began two-and-a-half years ago, and they just keep on accumulating.

The latest was U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement that he will hit Syria unilaterally, without a UN mandate and without waiting for the conclusions of UN inspectors on the issue of poison gas -- but with a "yes" vote from Congress.

Then, as the debate opened in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he made it known that he would strike Syria "even if Congress votes No" to his war!

Funny things on the way to the war on Syria have been happening ever since the war in Syria began two-and-a-half years ago, and they just keep on accumulating.

Menaces sur la démocratie aux USA: La puissance de l'argent et l'exclusion de votants

rabble staff — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:30:28 +0000

Monday, October 29, 2012

Il reste à peine deux semaines avant les élections étatsuniennes, mais ça fait longtemps déjà que j'ai décroché -- comme le font de plus en plus de gens d'ailleurs.

Je n'ai donc pas suivi les débats (le dernier entre Barack Obama et Mitt Romney est fixé au 22 octobre). Mais je n'ai pu les éviter: j'ai eu beau zapper, les têtes parlantes réapparaissaient sur une bonne quinzaine des 60 canaux de télé que je reçois chez moi.

Il reste à peine deux semaines avant les élections étatsuniennes, mais ça fait longtemps déjà que j'ai décroché -- comme le font de plus en plus de gens d'ailleurs.

The Empire vs. Iran (and Syria): A New World War for a New World Order?

mgregus — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:35:20 +0000

Friday, April 27, 2012

Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global?

A terrifying scenario emerges from the ceaseless escalation of pressures and threats against Syria and Iran, pitting, for the first time since the NATO-OECD Empire won the Cold War two decades ago, the Western trio of the UN veto club (U.S., U.K., France) against its non-Western duo (Russia and China).

Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global?

Course à la chefferie du NPD : Mulcair reçoit le baiser de la mort de Québec/Canada Inc

rabble staff — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:50:21 +0000

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

English version available here.

MONTRÉAL - Un article d'André Pratte, chef de l'Éditorial à La Presse, posté sur son blog le 5 mars 2012, a attiré mon attention. Il était intitulé « Mulcair a raison ».

Ceux qui appuient Mulcair le présentent comme « l'architecte » de la vague Orange du NPD au Québec en 2011. Je ne partage pas cet avis.

Canada (and Quebec) Inc. give Mulcair's NDP leadership bid kiss of death

mgregus — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:32:37 +0000

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Pour la version française cliquez ici.

Montréal - André Pratte, head editorialist at La Presse, wrote a piece on March 5, 2012 which caught my attention. It was titled "Mulcair a raison" (Mulcair is right).

Thomas Mulcair's NDP leadership bid is looking more and more like a counter-attack by the 1 per cent to take over the NDP and steer it towards the so-called "extreme centre."

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, an internationalist for all times

rabble staff — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:52:29 +0000

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Were he alive today, Faiz Ahmad Faiz would have, all at once, been thrilled and alarmed by the fast-changing world order and the shaking hegemony of Western imperialism and its local linchpins.

How indeed can a lover of Faiz's poetry, even a very imperfect one as myself, witness the so-called Arab Spring and the toppling of dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali without thinking of his famous poem Hum Dekhenge (We Will See)?

The great revolutionary poet and the struggles of this time spring to mind in this year of protest and the fight against dictatorship and oppression.

NATO beats the drums of war against Syria and Iran

rabble staff — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:10:55 +0000

Friday, November 18, 2011

If you thought the $4-trillion Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan quagmire, and the loss of standing and credibility that goes with it, would bring the declining West to its senses, well, think again.

Even as I write this, drums of war are beating in Israel and across Natodom to "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran and Syria, and go "free" them with the drones and the missiles of "regime change."

With Libya in ruins, and its oil pledged to NATO multinationals, the screws are now tightening on Iran and Syria. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is meeting in Vienna to discuss its latest report on Iran, while Israel openly threatens to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. And the Arab League (AL) has suspended Syria to force "regime change" in Damascus.

If you thought the $4-trillion Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan quagmire, and the loss of credibility that goes with it, would bring the West to its senses, well, think again.

The Occupy Wall Street movement gathers steam

rabble staff — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:44:24 +0000

Friday, October 7, 2011

In less than one week, the New Botton Line movement in the U.S. has exploded into a viral Occupy Wall Street and We Are the 99% peaceful uprising against the growing economic injustice fostered by the greed of corporate America and its mounting hegemony on U.S. (and world) politics.

It was on Sept. 17 that a handful of students and activists, backed by people like documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, set up tents on Wall Street to focus attention on the crippling power of money over the life of ordinary Americans.

Americans take to the streets to fight corporate hegemony and reclaim democracy.

Fighting Israeli apartheid by 'besieging the siege'

rabble staff — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:52:37 +0000

Friday, October 29, 2010

The worldwide campaign to boycott Israel as an apartheid state took a giant Canadian leap forward last weekend with a three-day BDS Conference in Montreal (boycott, divestment and sanctions) that saw the coming together of separate and diverse initiatives into what a South African trade union delegate called "an unstoppable movement."

The boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign takes giant Canadian leap forward in Montreal.

Peace in the Congo passes through Rwanda

derrick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:31:26 +0000

Monday, November 24, 2008

The short and swift way to stop the ongoing holocaust in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) goes through Rwanda: the Anglophone Tutsi minority that has ruled Kigali since the 1994 genocide must be brought to reconcile with the Hutu majority, and accept its full participation in open democratic elections.

All other measures, from so-called "peace processes" to emergency aid and human rights campaigns, albeit necessary and praiseworthy, will be just more band-aid remedies applied to the symptoms of the crisis. The root cause of the "looters' war" is in Rwanda: it is the continuation, on Congolese soil, of Rwanda's unfinished civil war of 1990-94.

The short and swift way to stop the ongoing holocaust in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) goes through Rwanda. All other measures will be just more band-aid remedies.