Soleimani deserved what he got but this doesn’t redeem the clueless incompetence of the President.
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• Week of 09.02.2014 Old People News: the 50-Year Anniversary of the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Appearance | Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014 | (Yet) More Rob Ford | Bangladesh factory owners surrender after 2012 fire that killed 112 | Featured Article… Read More ›
North Korea is a crime organization masquerading as government
WITHIN DAYS of the return of Dennis Rodman, the ad-hoc US Secretary for DPRK-American Goodwill, we now have for our consumption James R. Clapper’s “Worldwide Threat Assessment,” presented March 12 to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In his crisp… Read More ›
Hamas leads Palestinians down the path to further misery
IN THIS LATEST of the Gaza Wars, a little noted symmetry offers insight into developments which doubtless portend the years ahead. The symmetry to which I refer concerns the names attached to the battles of 2008-09 and 2012.
Podcast 15: Lincoln Alexander, George McGovern, Malala Yousafzai, Drone Strikes, Terry Jones … and more
• Podcast 015 | Week of 21.10.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
Stephen Harper has good reason to be skeptical of the United Nations
RISING BY NECESSITY from the ash of its discredited predecessor, the United Nations on the 24th of January 1946 adopted its first resolution — a call for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, particularly of the atomic kind, and… Read More ›
Podcast 13: Iran, Omar Khadr, M-312, Trudeau, Freemen … and more
• Podcast 013 | Week of 09.31.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
If it’s 1938 in Iran, what year is it in Ottawa?
AS THIS WEEK’S United Nations General Assembly advanced, faithful to the template, nothing could have been more clear than that the world is suspended discouragingly between the Scylla of Holocaust denial and the Charybdis of Holocaust panic.
Podcast 11: Quebec Election, US Election 2012, Strange Fruit, Iran, Said Aburish and more
• Podcast 011 | Week of 08.09.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
The Conservative Party’s courting of China is shameful
I KNOW FROM experience the most efficient way to start a fist-fight in some circles is to use, without irony, the word evil. As in the phrase Axis of Evil. On this principle, George W. Bush was mocked for years… Read More ›
The Niqab in Living Colour
IN AZAR NAFISI’S book, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” the act of removing the veil is a metaphor for transitioning from the world of black-and-white into colour, and of shedding the state-imposed self to be liberated into one’s authentic, willed identity…. Read More ›
Living in the Age of The Endless War
ON A WALL at the National Capital’s War Monument are inscribed these words, past which I walk each day and derived from the ninth book of Virgil’s Aeneid: “nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo.” Here I shall provide some… Read More ›
