Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair
Canadian Government and security services have been implicated in knowingly transferring detainees and prisoners in Afghanistan to torture.
This paints the stigma of war crime guilt on all Canadians.
We spoke to MP Thomas Mulcair from Outremont to discuss how Canada can show the world Canada’s attitude towards war crimes and rectify Canada’s international reputation.
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April 9th FMA Runsheet
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something for the vegans this week:
recipe for Chick Peas and Lentils – 4min23sec
30 Discussion About Recycling in Montreal
Michael Werbowski, Craig Sauve, Tariq Jeeroburkhan et al. will discuss the expanded commitment to recycling in the city of Montreal .
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Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – April 9, 2010
-To follow up on the story we reported on the program last week regarding the NATO assault and killings of a wedding party in Pakita Province, Afghanistan on Febuary 12, 2010. The story was uncovered by the London Times and not only exposed the NATO killings of Afghani civilians, but also how NATO had knowingly lied to cover up its actions. Original investigations by the London Times “suggested that NATO’s claims were either willfully false or, at best, misleading.” -Further verifications by Afghani investigators as reported this week by the London Times have also indicated that "US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of (the) botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened" -The Times also reported that "NATO admitted responsibility for all the deaths for the first time on (Sunday night)." -Just to give you, the listener, some insight as to how the North American meanstream media coverage of the events in Afghanistan attempt to manipulate your understanding of what is going on and alter your preceptions of the truth, compare the investigative journalism of the London Times with the CNN coverage of the same event on February 12, 2010 that reported the deaths of the 3 civilian women and 2 Afghani government officials were "honour killings" and insinuated that it was the families of the victims themselves or even the taliban who were responsible. -Granted, the CNN report did appear only hours after the incident occured, but this misinformation is STILL posted on the CNN website two months later. -It becomes clearer and clearer as the misinformation in the meanstream media is exposed that these media outlets are no longer reliable sources for credible information about the situation in Afghanistan. -We hope you, the listener, accepted our challenge last week, and analyzed how the meanstream media covered Afghani President Hamid Karzai's sarcastic remarks that he was considering joining the taliban. These comments, made off the cuff and taken out of context by every meanstream media outlet from Yellowknife to Key West, were used to demonize the Afghani government and as an excuse not to report on the cause of the frustration that led Karzai to make such a remark. The continued killing of Afghani civilians by NATO and foreign coalition forces has actually rendered the taliban a viable alternative for Afghani civilians to safeguard the welfare of Afghani people. That is the legacy of what 8 years of NATO and foreign occupation has done to the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan. -Thousands marched in the streets of Germany this past week to protest against the invasion and continued occupation of Afghanistan. There were 30 organized rallies at locations across the country to call for an immediate and complete troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Over 1000 people marched in Munich and about 2000 more people marched in different towns and cities across Germany. The protest movement, which is celebrating 50 years of Easter demonstrations this year, is also calling for a world free of nuclear weapons and an end to German arms exports. This demonstrates the point that we have made clearly on the FMA over the past weeks that there is an undeniable link between the opposition to the "imperialism" and empire the countries occupying Afghanistan seek to maintain and the global movement of the true international community towards prioritizing people and humanity over war and conquest. -In the United States, there have been protests and marches that have not stopped opposing the occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan. In late March, there was a protest, against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that began with a noon rally in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House and followed with a march. Brian Becker, national coordinator of the antiwar ANSWER Coalition, which called for the demonstration, said: "There is growing a body of sentiment in the country . . . that opposes the expanding war in Afghanistan, the continued occupation of Afghanistan, the continued occupation of Iraq." Maggie Pondolfino, a representative of Military Families Speak Out, said: "I'm the proud mother of an active-duty infantry soldier. . . . We love and support our troops. And it is because we do that we will vocally show our opposition whenever our government sends them to ill-advised, immoral, unwinnable wars." -Here in Canada, we will continue our look at how this government is handling the accusations and stigma of war crimes guilt that hangs over the head of every Canadian because of the actions of this government and its security forces. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/19-7 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7087637.ece http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/12/afghanistan.bodies/index.html http://www.rebelnews.org/politics/europe/203899-german-easter-rallies-decry-afghanistan-killings
15 Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair - What the Afghani Detainee Documents Show 1/ What have you learned from studying the released government documents? 2/ Will Canadians get a full public inquiry into the Afghan Detainee Situation?
25 Michael Werbowski Presents
Discussion of situation in Kyrgyzstan -
1.update for the listeners the latest situation regarding the stability of the community
2.What does this mean for the US and their ocupation of Afghanistan which depends on Kyrgyzstan as a Northern supply post?
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Municipal headlines so far:
-recycling containers, which is the best?
-a short commentary on Vision Montréal breaking party finance laws.
-Analysis of “Operation Hammer” // Charest-gov’t anti-corruption task force (Roche Construction)
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Interview with Abdullah Al Malki
Abdullah Al Malki, a Canadian citizen and graduate of Carelton University, was incarcerated and tortured in Syria based on false and misleading information that the RCMP and CSIS provided to the Syrian government.
Three years after government inquiries identified the mistakes and sloppiness of Canada’s security forces in their treatment of Abdullah and other Canadian citizens, there has still been no corrections made to procedure, no apologies to the individuals like Abdullah who have been victimized by their own country, and the misleading information about these individuals is still circulating within the “intelligence” community even though it has been three years since it was identified as incorrect.
I spoke with Abdullah Al Malki on Friday, April 2nd and we discussed the details of his case and the awareness of Canadians about his story.
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25 More to Life Than Hummus w/ chef Ali Hassan
30 Interview w/ Ali Hassan
Ali Hassan Hosting – WE AINT TERRORISTS Comedy Show – TICKETS go on sale this Friday March 26th at noon: $15, available at RUBIKS Solutions, 1208 St-Denis OR CALL 514.791.8569 between 10am – 7pm to reserve. Woo HOO!
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Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – April 2
-US President Barak Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan over the past week and there is speculation as to what exactly was its purpose. We revealed on the program last week that Hamid Karzai and the Afghanistan government clearly announced that they will not accept the transfer of detainees from Guantanomo, Cuba to Bagram Military Prison in Afghanistan. This has been the de facto US plan for closing down Guantanomo as promised by Obama during his election campaign. The Afghani Government, however, announced last week that they will not accept such a move as it would be a violation of Afghani soveriegnty. It could be that Obama’s visit to Afghanistan this past week was meant to discuss the situation regarding the transfer of prisoners with Karzai and the Afghani government. This is something that the US should have cleared up with the Afghanis before announcing their intentions for the Guantanomo prisoners.
-Other reasons that have been proposed for Obama’s surprise visit to Afghanistan, mainly by the US meanstream and alternative medias, are that after posting his health care triumph domestically, this was a show of solidarity with the troops to appease the hard-core right wing of American politics. It has also been contended that after the intensity of the domestic health care battle, Obama just wanted to “get away” from Washington for a while.
-Governmental hearings into the issues surrounding the Afghani detainee issue and Canada’s involvement continued in Ottawa yesterday, however, it is clear to any and all who have viewed, even briefly these proceedings, that the intent is not necessarily to discern Canada’s role in the torture of prisoners, but to protect Canada’s image when the questions of Canada’s culpability arise. One of the clearest examples of this that I witnessed yesterday was the Chairman of the committe, Kevin Sorensen, whose role as chairman is to objectively mediate the proceedings, actually cross-examining a witness from the Canadian Department of International Affairs and Cooperation, by making statements that the witness could agree or disagree with – not by asking questions of the witness on the stand.
-The witness did uphold that the Afghani security, NDS, had different legal definitions of torture then their Canadian counterparts and he also maintained that although Canadian forces were aware of this for at least 2 years, Canada continued to hand over detainees to the NDS – The Canadian government assertion that the NDS “took” these detainees from Canadian custody without Canadian complicity did not come through in the various testimonies.
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Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair – What the Afghani Detainee Documents Show
15 Michael Werbowski Presents: Interview w/ John Carlos Frey
John Carlos Frey has recently finished his latest film entitled, “The 800 Mile Wall.” This powerful new documentary takes an unflinching look at the U.S. border security strategy that many believe violates fundamental human rights.
2. Adil Charkaoui, one of the individuals targeted by Canada’s security certificate program, launched on Feb. 22nd a 24.5 million dollar civil lawsuit against the Federal Government for reparations, what do you think of the action by Charkaoui, and are you considering a similar move?
Discussion of the Launch of Ehab’s new book of poetry
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