Fredericton Peace Coalition

Video – About 500 oil industry workers gathered in Iraq’s main oil port of Basra on Monday to protest Iraq’s draft oil law

The United Nations secretary general has again spoken out against the “appalling” toll of civilians killed and hurt as NATO forces battle insurgents in Afghanistan.

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More war. Less democracy.  Guess who’s coming to Canada?

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U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet in Montebello, Quebec in  August 2007 to advance a “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (SPP) or ‘NAFTA with guns’ — a North American pact that will increase economic and military harmonization between all three countries. The talks are closed to the public. Yet, the North American Competitiveness Council made up of 30 CEOs from large corporations (10 from Canada) will have exclusive influence on these “free-trade  plus security” agreements that will further de-regulate trade, giv  up Canada’s control of its water, gas and oil, and more deeply  integrate security and the military with the U.S. All of this will be done through agreements that by-pass the elected government and exclude civil society.

 
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July 14, 2007

Dear Sir:

As ex-military I automatically support our troops in Afghanistan but I am against the war. Here’s why.

David Grossman, author, United States soldier and psychologist researched war. He learned that 20% of soldiers fired their rifles in battle and as few as 5% did the killing. The military changed training methods, increased the killing rate to 90%; now returning soldiers have high rates of trauma, suicide and desertion.

In 1956 Canada invented United Nations Peacekeeping. Soldiers against war who helped countries find humane ways to communicate.

Since 1957 world thinkers have met at Pugwash to study ways of preventing nuclear war; an idea of Albert Einstein -considered father of the atomic bomb.

Peacekeepers, Pugwash delegates and “Never Again” war Veterans support the 95% of humankind who are compassionate and cannot hurt people or “nuke” cities.

I speak to support them.

Yours Truly

R H Young

Richard Neville: You be the judge. Following his appointment as commander of NATO’s forces in Afghanistan earlier this year, U.S. General Dan McNeill devised a daring strategy to defeat the Taliban. He would beat them at their own game. That’s why this week marks an important milestone for General McNeill–”Bomber” to his troops–because his goal has been achieved. Although mocked by British officers for overuse of air power, McNeill proved its effectiveness within days of taking up his post. His air strikes hit homes in the Kapisa province north of Kabul, killing nine people from four generations of a local family, including a 6-month-old child. The usual complaints erupted from human rights fanatics and the lily livered Dutch, but McNeil held his ground.

Women in Black will be holding their bi-weekly vigil against violence in front of Fredericton City Hall on Friday 13th from noon until 1pm.  Our focus these days is the war in Afghanistan and Canada’s involvement in it.  All are welcome.

July 7, 2007

Thank you for publishing R.H. Young’s letter, entitled UN’s goal of peace is lost, in the June 29 Daily Gleaner in which he makes the following statement:

“Sadly, NATO countries have invaded Kosovo and Afghanistan. The most blatant UN betrayal was plotted at Meech Lake by Canada, United States and France. President Aristide of Haiti was elected with 67 per cent of the vote. He was kidnapped, exiled to Africa, and a regime more friendly to the plotters’ interests installed.”

I presume the writer is the retired Professor Robert Young of the University of New Brunswick, who served during the Second World War. It is people such as he who should guide Canada and the world at large, instead of ill-informed politicians who are chosen by an ill-informed population.

For example, Bush and company attacked Afghanistan in response to the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Centre, without determining the reasons and the motives of those who sacrificed their own lives.

Did Osama Bin Laden and his followers want to conquer the United States? Did they want to convert all Christians and Jews to their religion of Islam by force?

The most probable reason for the attack of 9-11 was the desire on the part of some powerful Americans to dominate the Middle East and give blind support to Israel at the cost of the Palestinians.

As for the excuse that Canada and the European countries are in Afghanistan to help improve the living standards of Afghans, it is hardly the primary reason. Canada, as well as the United States, needs to look inward and should first improve the lot of their own native population.

The First Nations’ demonstrations and protests June 29 were well justified and should be taken seriously. The natives deserve respect and compensation for the pain and misery they have endured.

There is a need to revise the charter of the United Nations and the concepts of country and sovereignty to make it possible for all human beings to survive on the shrinking planet earth.

Matin Yaqzan

Fredericton