Pot calling the kettle black

Dr ISMAIL ZAYID condemns the double standards in the reporting of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Canadian Press on the Halifax International Security Forum and its warmongering agenda against Syria and Iran.

Harper government guts environment programmes

By STEPHEN LEAHY*, InterPress Service

CANADA’S STEPHEN HARPER GOVERNMENT is spending more than $60 billion on new military jets and warships while slashing more than $200 million in funding for research and monitoring of the environment. Amongst the programmes now crippled is Canada’s internationally renowned ozone monitoring network, which was instrumental in the discovery of the first-ever ozone hole over Canada last spring. Loss of ozone has been previously linked to increases in skin cancer.

War criminals are not welcome in Halifax

First in a series by TONY SEED*

HALIFAX, the principal NATO port on the North Atlantic and the headquarters of Maritime Command, is hosting yet another “Halifax International Security Forum” (HISF) on November 18-20. For the third year in a row, three hundred hand-picked militarists will be occupying the luxurious Halifax Westin Hotel at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer.

The Harper government has advanced $7.5 million of public funds to a private Washington-based organization comprised of five individuals — four of them American citizens — in an unsourced contract to organize the “Halifax” conference over the next three years. Participation in the HISF is by invitation only; the Canadian people are excluded. Many of the sessions are classified as “off-the-record.”

German government’s development aid for neo-Nazis

The role of the German state in the promotion of neo-Nazis, responsible for racist and fascist violence, terror and serial murders (where the victims were almost exclusively Turkish): the Thuringia Office for the Protection of the Constitution paid amounts of DMs in the six-digits to influential right-wing extremist militants, german-foreign-policy.com reports

ERFURT (Nov. 16) – New revelations on the neo-Nazi serial murders of nine men of non-German origin and a female police officer are incriminating a German domestic intelligence agency. According to media reports, a member of a recently discovered neo-Nazi terror group presumably had contact to the Thuringia Office for the Protection of the Constitution – even after he went underground. The affair could become an “intelligence agency problem,” predicts the domestic policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Hans-Peter Uhl. In the 1990s, under the pretext that they are very important informants, the Thuringia Office for the Protection of the Constitution had, in fact, paid amounts of DMs in the six-digits to influential right-wing extremist militants.

Halifax International Security Forum: War criminals and warmongers out of Halifax!

November 21, 2009: Haligonians mount a vigorous protest against the First Halifax International Security Forum, funded by DND and ACOA.

TML Weekly calls on everyone to support and participate in the actions to oppose the Third Halifax International Security Forum (HISF) to be held at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel from November 18 to 20. For the third year in a row, a rally is being held Saturday, November 19th, at 1:00 p.m. at the renamed Peace & Freedom Park (Cornwallis Park) across from the hotel to condemn the “forum.”.

Gen. Bouchard acknowledges that NATO’s informants in Libya were journalists

In a 31 October 2011 interview on Radio Canada, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard of the Canadian Forces, who commanded Operation Unified Protector in Libya, revealed that an analysis unit was set up at NATO headquarters in Naples. Its mission was to study and decipher what was happening on the ground, that is to say both the movements of the Libyan Army and those of the “rebels.”