Communities from coast-to-coast mobilize

 

On November 16th, communities from coast-to-coast mobilized at facilities and companies producing and profiting off of the F-35 fighter jets. The F-35 is Lockheed Martin’s flagship fighter jet and the most advanced warplane currently being used by the Israeli Air Force to bomb Gaza and Lebanon. Together, we’re exposing the fact that despite the Canadian government’s repeated claims to the contrary, Canada is still arming genocide.  (more...)

Communities from coast-to-coast mobilize

An incredible show of force this weekend! 16 protests at companies across the country producing components of the F-35 warplanes Israel is using to bomb Gaza. Watch and share this beautiful video recap and take action targeting the weapons company execs at https://t.co/TemZ0v69IO pic.twitter.com/obx3yhG2uy

— World BEYOND War Canada (@WBWCanada) November 18, 2024

Netanyahu Arrest Warrant

 

The other shoe drops

Dodging Nuremberg

 

We discuss the Nuremberg Trials, West Germany's failed 'denazification' process, and how the vast majority of Nazi war criminals escaped justice in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Sarah walks us through a deeper look at the Nuremberg Trials, focusing on the important legal frameworks and precedents that they set. We talk more about how the first trial was set up, some of the practical details of the proceedings, and their legacy.

Stephen Harper’s ‘moral clarity’ in defence of Israeli exceptionalism

 

Like most Western leaders, Harper has denigrated historical context and justified Israeli aggression against the Palestinians

A Toronto Sun editorial recently praised Stephen Harper’s “moral clarity” on current events in the Middle East. After quitting politics in 2015 the former Canadian prime minister worked with American Zionist billionaire and Trump backer Sheldon Adelson before serving on the boards of organizations like the Friends of Israel Initiative. In addition to his graduate degree in economics, Harper received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, presumably for his faithful commitment to Israeli exceptionalism.

For the moment, let’s table the current Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) slaughter of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians and consider Harper’s past attitude to Israel’s military aggression. For example, Harper once described Israel’s brutal 2006 invasion of Lebanon as “measured” and justified while his government simultaneously demeaned Lebanese Canadians desperate to flee Israeli bombs.

Using its illegal Dahiya doctrine of disproportionate force and collective punishment of civilians, the IDF’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon killed 1,100 and wounded 4,400. According to a Human Rights Watch report, 80 percent of those casualties were civilians who had the misfortune of living near Hezbollah units and Palestinian refugee camps.

While IDF losses were light in 2006, Hezbollah surprised the world by damaging or destroying over 50 advanced Israeli tanks, an impressive feat that caused an IDF retreat. Unfortunately for Israel conscripts, today’s IDF seems to have learned nothing from that painful lesson.

Harper would never admit that Hezbollah was created in the early 1980s to protect Lebanon from Israeli efforts to invade that country and destroy Palestinian resistance groups based in border-area refugee camps. Those Palestinians refugees had fled Palestine in 1948 and 1967 to escape the grim fate of their peers at massacre sites like Deir Yassin (1948), Kafr Qasim (1956), and other Israeli outrages ignored by the Western media. In Harper’s view, displaced Palestinians have no right to reclaim their lost homes or seek justice  (more...)

Stephen Harper’s ‘moral clarity’ in defence of Israeli exceptionalism

Sabotage of Ottawa factory producing parts for Israel’s F-35 warplanes

 

Earlier this week a group of people sabotaged Gastops’ factory in Ottawa, the only place in the world where engine sensors are produced for Lockheed’s F-35 combat jets — including the ones dropping 2,000 pound bombs on Gaza. We cut the wiring inside all of the heat pumps on the Gastops roof, locked them out with official Ministry of Health and Safety lock-out tags, shut off the gas, broke the handles for their systems, and cut the lines to their backup communication system on the way out.

The following letter and photos were left on site:

It’s worth noting that we disabled their heat pumps as it begins to get cold here in Ottawa and as displaced people in Gaza and Lebanon plead with us to help them secure shelter, blankets, clothing, as they freeze in displacement camps. Earlier this month an Ottawa neighbour lost her uncle while he returned to his home in Gaza attempting to bring back blankets for the children so they would not freeze to death. He was murdered by air strike while doing so, likely by an F-35 that Gastops supplies parts to.

People growing tired of politicians continuing to support the slaughter of civilians in Palestine and Lebanon will continue to escalate actions seeking peace and an end to these war crimes.  (more...)

Sabotage of Ottawa factory producing parts for Israel’s F-35 warplanes

Activists push for arms embargo against Israel, targeting Moncton firm

 

Apex Industries makes parts for F-35 fighter jets, which Lockheed Martin sells to the Israeli Air Force

Activists renewed their demands for the feds to impose an arms embargo on Israel over the weekend, with protests taking place in Moncton and across the country.

Protests focussed on Canadian companies that are involved in the construction of F-35 fighter jets, which the American weapons and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin sells to a number of countries, including Israel.

Activists state that the Israeli Air Force is using its fleet of F-35s to drop U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. Activists say the advanced fighter jets contain millions of dollars worth of technology made by Canadian companies and subsidiaries.

In Moncton, protesters gathered outside of Apex Industries on Millennium Boulevard, which builds parts for the F-35 program. Company CEO Keith Parlee previously told the NB Media Co-op that Apex has “no control” over how its products are used.

Carol Scott, a member of Citizens for Peace-Greater Moncton, said activists from Saint John, Fredericton, P.E.I. and elsewhere in the region were expected at Saturday’s rally in Moncton. Protests also took place in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia at “facilities and companies producing and profiting off of the F-35,” according to Arms Embargo Now.  (more...)

Activists push for arms embargo against Israel, targeting Moncton firm

Surveillance Education

 

Any technology created by the US military industrial complex and adopted by the general public was always bound to come with a caveat. To most, the internet, GPS, touch screen and other ubiquitous technologies are ordinary tools of the modern world. Yet in reality, these technologies serve “dual-uses”; while they convenience typical people, they also enable the mass coercion, surveillance and control of those very same people at the hands of the corporate and military state.

Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler, authors of “Surveillance Education: Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools,” join host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. They explore the software and technology systems employed in K-12 schools and higher education institutions that surveil students, erode minors’ privacy rights and, in the process, discriminate against students of color.