VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values. The article’s tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines and blogs in the United States did not say every day without fear of legal reprisal. Things are different here. The magazine is on trial. Under Canadian... 

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Ron Paul: in a speech given on 06 June 2008, congressman Ron Paul, tells how speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, acting on behalf of israel and AIPAC, ‘deliberately’ pulled a supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking Iran.  Read More »

JERUSALEM – In an effort to combat what it calls Internet smears, Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign yesterday launched a website with the stated aimed of setting the record straight. One of the main issues addressed by Obama’s “Fight the Smears” site is the contention the Illinois senators was once a Muslim. “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised... 

Officials in Brussels are working on plans to ensure that the European Treaty is still implemented elsewhere if Ireland votes against it in the referendum. Although measures such as creating an EU president, “foreign minister” and European diplomatic service may be delayed, they are still expected to be introduced. One diplomat said a “bridging mechanism” was being... 

A court in French-Flanders annulled a marriage since the bride turned out not to be a virgin, report French newspaper Libération. The judges came to the conclusion that the bridegroom was deceived concerning an ‘essential characteristic’ of the bride, who had assured him before the wedding that she was still virgin. The judges therefore decided to apply a law which is seldom used. Both... 

Municipalities in Sweden should be required to accept refugees, a government inquiry has concluded. Next week the results of a state commission will be presented which suggest that all municipalities should be forced to take in refugees, reports the Dagens Samhälle newspaper. Last year county administrative boards took over responsibility for managing the receiving of refugees. Since then, the boards... 

  Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a “climate of discrimination” in Italy. The Italian section of the rights body said recent tough new immigration measures were a worrying trend. It added that politicians from both sides of the spectrum were legitimising the use of racist language. Last week, Italy’s new centre-right... 

War Abroad, Poverty at Home By Paul Craig Roberts The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring. As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will... 

Was World War II worth it? By Pat Buchanan In the Bush vs. Putin debate on World War II, Putin had far the more difficult assignment. Defending Russia’s record in the “Great Patriotic War,” the Russian president declared, “Our people not only defended their homeland, they liberated 11 European countries.” Those countries are, presumably: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,... 

Israel provided a textbook example of a “hate crime” when Orthodox Jews gathered and publicly burned hundreds of New Testament Bibles last week. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, architect of hate crimes laws worldwide, says a hate crime occurrs whenever violation of the law is motivated by bias against an identifiable protected group of people (like Jews, Muslims, or homosexuals).... 

Instead of a rich legacy bequeathed upon the United States by forever U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy, the oft-intoxicated, blubbery fourth brother of the Kennedy clan, four decades ago drunkenly drove over a bridge that caused the death of Mary Jo Kopechne and lied about what happened. But his worst and most destructive legacy for the United States stems from his authorship of the 1965 “Immigration... 

A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit. “The special rapporteur will…gather... 

Money raised for Africa ‘goes to civil wars’ Billions of dollars raised for African famine relief by celebrities Bono and Bob Geldof have instead funded civil war across the continent, says terrorism expert Dr Loretta Napoleoni. London-based Napoleoni, in Auckland to appear at the Writers & Readers Festival, has written two books, Terror Inc: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism... 

President George Bush lavished anniversary praise on Israel yesterday, as Palestinians commemorated the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” when 700,000 were forced from or fled their homes 60 years ago. In a special address to the Israeli Knesset, Mr Bush declared that the US was proud to be the “closest ally and best friend in the world” of a nation that was a “homeland...