The World’s Nukes – Good News and Bad News
U.S. Pres. Barack Obama chairs the Security Council Summit on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Credit: Bomoon Lee/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 2016 (IPS) – The world’s nuclear arsenal continues...
View ArticleIsrael and the destruction of Palestinian education
By Candice Bodnaruk June 11, 2016: Peace Alliance Winnipeg member Candice Bodnaruk spoke at the Winnipeg Walk for Peace on the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian education. Photo: Paul S....
View ArticleWinnipeg in Spring – Solidarity with Palestine
Winnipeg, May 28, 2016: Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Independent Jewish Voices Winnipeg joined forces to hand out information to Liberal Party delegates about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
View ArticleAppeal for a Total Ban on Nuclear Weapons
By antiatom.org In August 1945, two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki instantly turned the two cities into ruins and took the lives of about 210 thousand people. Even now, more than...
View ArticleHiroshima Peace Declaration 2016
By Kazumi Matsui, Mayor, The City of Hiroshima Hiroshima’s Mayor Kazumi Matsui in 2015 Photo: Kyodo News/Associated Press 1945, August 6, 8:15 a.m. Slicing through the clear blue sky, a previously...
View ArticleWinnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2016
Winnipeggers once again came together at Memorial Park to commemorate the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States.
View ArticleWar Resisters: #LetThemStay
By the War Resisters Support Campaign Across the country, supporters of U.S. Iraq War resisters have been working hard to ensure that the Liberal government acts quickly to resolve their cases and let...
View ArticleLife in Aida Camp, West Bank
An eight-meter-high “security wall” borders part of the Aida refugee camp, 1.5 km north of the city of Bethlehem. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS By Fabíola Ortiz, Inter Press Service News Agency AIDA CAMP,...
View ArticleThe making of Lia Tarachansky’s “On the Side of the Road”
Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky in Winnipeg Nov 9, 2016. Photo: Paul S. Graham Winnipeg, Nov. 9, 2016: Israeli filmmaker and correspondent for The Real News Network Lia Tarachansky screened and then...
View ArticleNATO buildup in the Black Sea
Brussels (AFP) – NATO will step up naval war games and surveillance in the Black Sea to complement its increased presence of land and air forces near a more assertive Russia, the alliance said...
View ArticleTrump threats on South China Sea heighten war risk
by Peter Symonds, World Socialist Website Just days after taking office, the Trump administration has set course for a conflict with China over the South China Sea that threatens military clashes and...
View ArticleNobel Peace Laureates: It’s time to eliminate nuclear weapons
People participate in an anti-nuclear rally in Union Square in New York. (photo: Seth Wenig/AP) by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War [The following statement from 21 Nobel...
View ArticleMayors for Peace Anti-Nuke Petition Surpasses 2 million signatures mark
As of February 1, 2017, a petition launched by Mayors for Peace to abolish nuclear weapons had 2,469,821 signatures. The petition reads: We, the undersigned, make the following request of the leaders...
View ArticleRecord number of Afghan refugees
Based on current trends, the UN predicts that in 2017 at least 450,000 more people will join those already internally displaced Afghan refugee children watch a short video clip about mines during a...
View ArticleCanada should not renew mission to Ukraine
Canadian soldiers of Joint Task Force Ð Ukraine support urban operations training at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Starychi, Ukraine, on August 31, 2016. Photo: Canadian Forces...
View ArticleUS uses radioactive depleted uranium weapons in Syria
Months after the Pentagon said it wouldn’t use a controversial type of armor-piercing ammunition that has been blamed for long-term health complications, US aircraft fired thousands of the rounds...
View ArticleMali: The world’s most dangerous U.N. mission
Gao, Mail- UN Peacekeepers from Senegal on an early morning patrol in Gao, Mali on Sunday, January 15, 2017. Despite the end of the occupation, many Malians find that security is still a major issue...
View ArticleU.S. Considers First-Strike Attack on North Korea
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam — Aircraft mechanics prepare a B-2 Spirit bomber before a morning mission. Photo: U.S. Air Force / Master Sgt. Val Gempis by Bruce Gagnon The publication called Business...
View ArticleTrudeau’s Anti-Russian Brinkmanship Could End Badly
Canadian military instructors and Ukrainian servicemen take part in a military exercise at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine, July 12, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich...
View ArticleHiroshima Peace Declaration 2017
By Matsui Kazumi Mayor, The City of Hiroshima AUG. 6, 2017 – Friends, seventy-two years ago today, on August 6, at 8:15 a.m., absolute evil was unleashed in the sky over Hiroshima. Let’s imagine for a...
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