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World politics and events.

  • Politics

We are going to lose the war with fanatical Islamism, and here’s how

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 18, 2015January 28, 2015

CHARLIE HEBDO. A month ago, no one had even heard of it here in North…

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  • World

How Ethnocentrism Blinded the War’s Critics to the People of Iraq

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 18, 2014January 3, 2015

SCANNING THIS WEEK’S renewal of the Bush and Blair trials, I wondered: do I alone…

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  • World

Can the World Do Anything for the Girls of Nigeria?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 5, 2014January 3, 2015

AS I WRITE THIS, the swell of a Western grassroots outcry against the Nigerian outfit,…

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  • World

Uganda’s Giant Step Backward

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 25, 2014January 4, 2015

THE DELUSION fueling Uganda’s homophobes is nicely summarized by Douglas Foster, in a Los Angeles…

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  • Obituary

Ariel Sharon’s Life of Vigorous Inertia

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 10, 2014July 16, 2019

A SETTLEMENT, John Kerry said this week, is better than settlements. Yet for years now,…

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  • World

An Attack on Syria for Whose Benefit?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 27, 2013January 4, 2015

IN THE YEARS leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a commonplace indictment of…

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  • World

Taking the Side of Malala Yousafzai

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 17, 2013January 5, 2015

PERHAPS THE MOST remarkable thing about Adnan Rasheed’s defence of the Malala Yousafzai shooting (putting…

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  • World

The Egyptian People Are Ready for Democracy: Too Bad About the Politicians

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 10, 2013January 4, 2015

IN A MAY 2013 Ahram Online interview, the US ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, fielded…

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  • Politics

Edward Snowden shows us that the landscape of surveillance is far greater than we can imagine

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 10, 2013January 5, 2015

TO UNEARTH SOME latent implications of Edward Snowden’s recent act of whistle blowing, and the…

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  • World

The Bangladesh Factory Fires Could, and Must, Be Prevented

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 25, 2013January 5, 2015

IT WAS ONLY eight days after the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and…

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  • World

North Korea is a crime organization masquerading as government

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 12, 2013January 5, 2015

WITHIN DAYS of the return of Dennis Rodman, the ad-hoc US Secretary for DPRK-American Goodwill,…

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  • World

The War in Mali

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 28, 2013January 5, 2015

EVEN IF THE contemporary account of al-Umari is greatly exaggerated, the 1324 transit of the…

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  • World

The “Gaza Wars”

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 19, 2012May 11, 2021

IN THIS LATEST of the Gaza Wars, a little noted symmetry offers insight into developments…

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  • World

If Greece’s disease doesn’t kill it, Golden Dawn’s cure may

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 13, 2012January 5, 2015

AS THE POLITICAL and economic fortunes of Greece grow more precarious, it becomes harder to…

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  • World

The Courage of Malala Yousafzai and the Lessons of Mingora

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 9, 2012January 5, 2015

THERE ARE no words of sufficient force to summarize this week’s attempted murder of fourteen…

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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