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9th Annual Vancouver International
FILM FESTIVAL 4 PEACE
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“WAR & PEACE!”

December 17th and 18th, 2011
10am to 9pm
Britannia Community Centre Auditorium
1661 Napier Street (at Commercial Drive)
Vancouver, Canada
 
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(New York,) – The rebel New People’s Army (NPA) in thePhilippines should immediately end unlawful killings and detention of civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has admitted to gunning down civilians and detaining others in recent months.

It was the culmination of decades of struggle against the offenses and abuses committed by US troops against our women and our people. Finding refuge in their military bases, these military offenders were shielded by extra-territoriality privileges beyond the jurisdiction of our criminal laws and justice system. More seriously, these bases enhanced US interference in our country’s economy and politics, and were used as staging points of US aggression in Vietnam.

The votes of the Magnificent 12 were a historic assertion of our people’s sovereignty and a declaration that our territory will never more be used to advance US economic and military interests in the Asian region.

It was 27 August 2002, while reading the New York Times,when I first suspected that senior officials in the administration of President George W. Bush had commenced lying about Iraq to our fearful, ignorant and gullible American public.
 
You see, a day earlier Vice President Richard Cheney had spoken publicly about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). ''There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” Cheney said. "The Iraq regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents.” Then, more ominously, Cheney added: "We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons."

In so many nations, empires, kingdoms there was never choice. What the average person had to say meant nothing. People were told to trust in your king, leader etc for they know best. You can have questions, just keep them to yourself and trust blindly.
But in a modern Democracy we expect more. In a nation where we elect our leaders and are capable of holding them accountable to their deeds we expect more. In a nation where we have a say over our taxes and how they are spent we expect more.

The never-give-up policy of the government in the peace process is paying off.

The MILF and the NDF welcomed the announcement of the President that set the stage for resuming formal peace talks to end the 40-year insurgency war in the country.

During the resumption of formal negotiations between the government and the NDF in Oslo, Norway on Feb.15-21, 2011, both sides expressed optimism that a peace pact would be signed in 2012. Another round of negotiations was held last April.

The Royal Government of Norway is the third-party facilitator in the negotiations between the Philippine government and the NDF.

America's Permanent War Agenda: Military Keynesianism on Steroids - by Stephen Lendman
 
Previous articles discussed America's culture of violence at home and abroad. Its entire history, in fact, is blood-drenched, glorifying conflicts in the name of peace, waging them every year in US history against one or more domestic and/or foreign adversaries. Moreover, since WW II, America's had a permanent war agenda for unchallengeable global dominance throughout decades without enemies since Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945. The Pentagon calls it a "long war."
 

Washington's UN War Resolution on Libya - by Stephen Lendman

On March 18, Washington bullied Security Council members to approve Resolution 1973, a measure authorizing war on Libya. The 10 - 0 vote included five abstentions from China, Russia, Germany, Brazil and India, objecting to sweeping terms, including wide latitude for belligerence on bogus "humanitarian" grounds.

In fact, it's to replace one despot with another, perhaps assassinate Gaddafi, colonize Libya, control its oil, gas and other resources, exploit its people, privatize its state industries under Western control, establish new US bases, use them for greater regional control, and perhaps balkanize the country like Yugoslavia and Iraq.

Pack Journalism Promotes War on Libya - by Stephen Lendman

America's major media never met an imperial war it didn't love and promote, never mind how lawless, mindless, destructive and counterproductive.

Despite Washington already bogged down in two losing ones, Obama's heading for another on Libya, the media pack in the lead clamoring for it, perhaps by "shock and awe," supplemented by special forces death squads on the ground recruiting, inciting, and arming opposition elements.

Notably favoring intervention, a New York Times February 24 editorial headlined, "Stopping Qaffafi," saying:

Unless he's stopped, he'll "slaughter hundreds or even thousands of his own people in his desperation to hang on to power."

Securing Good Faith

Goodwill and good faith probably account for 75 per cent of successful negotiations. President Aquino’s goodwill gesture of ordering the release of the “Morong 43,” the health workers arbitrarily detained by the military on grounds of being suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA), will hopefully go a long way towards securing good faith in the negotiations from the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).