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    Staying in Afghanistan: Unending occupation
    August 2011
    Ross Eventon

    While the US focuses on consolidating its permanent military presence in Afghanistan, designed to guard and exploit Central Asian energy reserves, its earlier rational "to fight terrorism" is a faded memory. Afghanis, meanwhile, continue to lose their lives and humanitarian conditions worsen.

    Nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law
    April 2011
    Peter Weiss

    The Vancouver Declaration affirms the incompatibility of nuclear weapons with International Humanitarian Law.

    More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA
    October 2009
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Obama has not just backpedaled from his campaign commitments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has ended up expanding the accord which will remove even more checks and balances on the exchange of capital, services, and goods.

    Three Amigos Summit
    April 2008
    Sarah Anderson
     Manuel Pérez Rocha and Sarah Anderson
    The forthcoming secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership summit between Mexico, US and Canada will be attended by Wal-Mart, Chevron, and 28 other large corporations, while members of Congress, journalists, and ordinary citizens are excluded.

    President George W. Bush will soon...

    Busting paranoid right-wing fantasies of dissolving the Mexico-US-Canada borders
    April 2008
    Sarah Anderson
     Manuel Pérez Rocha and Sarah Anderson

    This month, President Bush will host the leaders of Canada and Mexico to advance the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a project Lou Dobbs has predicted will "end the United States as we know it."

    Lou sounds downright blasé, though, compared to all the online ranting and raving...

    Participatory Budgeting in Canada:
    February 2006

    In Canada, participatory budgeting is being applied in new ways,
    generating new strategies for progressive urban politics. This paper
    explores the initial Canadian experiences with participatory budgeting:
    Guelph's Neighbourhood Support Coalition, Toronto Community Housing's...

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