Accounts

NGOs, Invasions and the News

Part two of an interview with veteran reporter Jooneed Khan

MINUSTAH Intimidates Journalist on World Press Freedom Day

A Woman in a Mine’s World

National roundtable on mining fails those struggling against Canada’s corporations abroad

Growing Insurgencies, Irregular Warfare, part II

Development Aid as Counterinsurgency Tool

Haiti: the Damage Done

Part II of an Interview with Brian Concannon.

Haiti: the Damage Done

Part I of an Interview with Brian Concannon

Waiting For War?

Azerbaijan's refugees see little hope

The Taliban's Past and Future

An interview with Mullah Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, former Taliban foreign minister

Support the Troops or Support the War?

In Afghanistan, it might be difficult to do both

Land Claims and the People of the Great River

An interview with Paula Lapierre of the Kichesipirini Algonquin Nation

This Is What Media Looks Like

A positive agenda for media reform in the USA

Corruption, Impunity Pervade Afghan Government

Police part of insecurity problem: victims, human rights groups

This is What Development Looks Like

Part II: Canadian mining firm burns homes

This is What Development Looks Like

Part I: Skye Resources and Land Reoccupation in Guatemala

Shia in Kabul Preparing for War

Residents warn sectarian violence is just around the corner

Afghan MPs Predict "Very Big War"

Afghanistan correspondent Chris Sands interviews Afghan MPs, and hears predictions of a "very big war" and jihad against foreign troops.

Civilian deaths, corruption, occupying troops leading to "jihad" against foreigners, say leaders

Visualizing Canada in Haiti

A visual representation of the relationships between Canada's NGOs, government agencies and US agencies operating in Haiti, in a printable poster format.

A poster version of coverage from the Foreign Policy issue

Preventative Justice

Activist Jaggi Singh speaks from jail about his arrest--not for what he did, but for what he might do.

Activist Jaggi Singh is arrested for what he might do and threatened with six months in detention

Digging Up Canadian Dirt in Colombia

Chris Arsenault travels to Colombia to investigate the impacts Canadian aid agencies and corporations are having there.

Canadian corporations and aid agencies facing controversy and resistance in Colombia

Canadian Member

Chris Arsenault drops by the exclusive Canada Club in Bogata, Colombia, and considers the cost of Canada's elite.

Membership is limited at the Canada Club in Bogata, Colombia

New Brunswick's New Business

Chris Arsenault spends an afternoon at an arms convention with some nice folks.

An afternoon at an arms convention with some nice folks

Setting up a Stand for Justice

Lebanon, Israel, and one man's battle for a few feet of sidewalk in Montréal. Dru Oja Jay meets the "Tunisian hippy."

A battle for a few feet of sidewalk

"Everything in my life is destroyed now, so I will fight them."

Dahr Jamail tours the war-torn Lebanese capital of Beirut with a member of Hezbollah.

Dispatches from the war-torn Lebanese capital

City Lights Not So Bright

Ben Sichel and Jenny Peirce talk about poverty with people in suits at the World Urban Forum.

Discussing the future of slums in the opulent setting of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver

What's Yours Is Mine

Cyril Mychalejko reports from Ecuador on local resistance to Canadian mining operations.

Ascendant Copper Corporation Meets Resistance in Ecuador

Potable Politics

Van Ferrier wonders if water will be the issue that puts the Zapatismo into Mexico's big city politics.

Will water put the Zapatismo into Mexico's big city politics?

Parisian Riots, Take Two

Youth are hitting the streets to do battle with police once again, but Marco Chown Oved finds that this time, it's a different crowd

This time, it's elite French students who are rejecting government plans

Fairytale Squat Faces Political Squalor

Shaughn McArthur visits Denmark's Christiania at a time when the struggling, self-governing community is preparing to take on the state.

Denmark's Christiania prepares to take on the state

African AIDS education may be working in Zimbabwe

The Politics of Brutality in Haiti

In Port-au-Prince, Aaron Lakoff reflects on Canada's role in Haiti's ongoing human rights disaster

Canada, the UN and "collateral damage"