CANADA AS IT RELATES TO THE WORLD, the US, & 

pressing issues of the day related to peace

For more on what is happening in Iraq, visit www.electroniciraq.net, www.occupationwatch.org, or Baghdad's Indymedia site, www.almuajaha.com.

CANADA'S INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ'S OCCUPATION

CANADA AND MISSILE DEFENCE - speak out against our involvement in this lunacy

DEEP INTEGRATION - find out what the elites in Canada have planned for us

An aside:  CANADA and its new war museum

READINGS OF THE WEEK - not current at the moment

Public events in Halifax - check out www.bethechange.ca

ACTIONS AROUND TO THE WORLD AGAINST CONTINUED OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

MY OPED PIECE

MY CBC COMMENTARY

SOLUTIONS

WAR QUIZZES Test your knowledge

The Canadian Government has a toll-free number so all Canadians can call the Canadian Foreign Affairs Department - Iraq Desk and tell our democratically elected Government what you think Canada's stand should be regarding the military intervention in Iraq. The toll-free number is: 1-866-880-4378. (not sure if still active in late 2003)  

Don't be blind to what mainstream tells you - there is much more to the story.  I am offering the following suggestions for resources to look up IF YOU: :

1)  consider yourself a citizen of the world and not simply of Canada

2)  consider yourself more a seeker of the common good above your own self interest

3)  want to have a more well-rounded perspective of pre and post-Sept. 11th events

4)  want to learn about history and religion

5)  do not agree with what the US government is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq and other parts of the world

6)  have an open mind and are willing to hear challenges and criticisms of US & Canada's foreign and domestic policy

7)  believe in a people's right to sovereignty and self-determination

8)  believe in international law and support the rule of law

9)  support globalization but not americanization and McDonaldization

10) believe that patriotism does not mean following blindly your political and economic leaders

etc...

I hope you get the point. 

http://www.commondreams.org/ Non-profit citizens' organization to promote progressive future

http://www.mediachannel.org/ Non-profit, public interest site dedicated to global media issues

http://www.ips-dc.org/ Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC)

http://www.inequality.org/index.html Non-profit organization aiming to circulate information and ideas re inequality not widely covered in the media

http://www.globalexchange.org/ Non-profit research, education, and action centre

http://www.internationalanswer.org/ Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (international coalition)

http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/ Multimedia resource site for news from peace activists in Iraq

http://www.nonviolence.org/ Magazine of Non-violence Web

http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/ Voices in the Wilderness

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org

www.moveon.org - US progressive virtual organization 

(and for some fun check out:  http://GlobalBS.com,  a canada.con comic convergence of Global media parody, BC political satire and lickspittle Liberal lampoon that dynamically downsizes the priapic pro-corporate agenda of CanWest Global and Canadian political elites.)

AUDIO/VIDEO (on-line streaming audio and video)

http://www.democracynow.org/ Progressive radio news & views on current events

http://www.btlonline.org/ Between the Lines radio newsmagazine

http://www.fair.org/counterspin/index.html Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting media news program

http://www.fsrn.org/ Free Speech Radio News

http://www.freespeech.org/ Free Speech TV

http://www.workingtv.com/ Has two excellent video talks on War on Iraq, Michael Parenti and Scott Ritter (Vancouver, BC)

Here are some websites to check out, non-corporate, non-mainstream media outlets, non-profit organizations:

www.nowarcollective.com/analysis.htm or uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/freelance.htm

www.indymedia.org

www.truthout.org
http://www.legitgov.org/Top5Lies.pdf
http://www.zmag.org/

Articles written by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Arundhati Roy, George Monbiot, William Rivers Pitt, etc... just to name a few

Independent Media Centres throughout the US - just do a search using indy media

Groups such as Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, etc...