The coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 led very predictably to the worst human rights disaster…
Jean Candio has been imprisoned in Windsor, Ontario since December 13, 2006. He left Haiti in March, 2004, following the Coup d’etat…
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To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers) July 19, 2006 Buzz, Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half…
In a world dominated by the wealthy the temptation will always exist for NGOs to acquire funds, and respectability, by saying at…
[Note: This is a reply to Pierre Beaudet of the Canadian-government-funded NGO ‘Alternatives’, whose article was a reply to Nik Barry-Shaw, who…
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