Tue - June 10, 2008

Asylum


Last week the House of Commons adopted a report from one of its committees, Citizenship and Immigration, that recommended Canada give immediate refugee status to deserters from the US military, much as we once did during the Vietnam War. At least that was the intention of the majority of the committee members, and their supporters in the House, the three opposition parties.

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Wed - October 24, 2007

Modern terror


By way of Paulie of Never Trust a Hippy and Mick Hartley on The Somalization of the Planet, here is a redefinition of terrorism, by André Glucksmann:

A better definition of terrorism is a deliberate attack by armed men on unarmed civilians. Terrorism is aggression against civilians as civilians, inevitably taken by surprise and defenseless. Whether the hostage-takers and killers of innocents are in uniform or not, or what kind of weapons they use—whether bombs or blades—does not change anything; neither does the fact that they may appeal to sublime ideals. The only thing that counts is the intention to wipe out random victims. The systematic resort to the car bomb, to suicide attacks, randomly killing as many passersby as possible, defines a specific style of engagement. When, after Saddam Hussein’s fall, terrorist attacks multiplied in Iraq, they spared no one, especially not Iraqis: schoolchildren in buses or on sidewalks, men and women at the market, the faithful at prayer.

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Wed - October 3, 2007

A just and dirty war


A Death in the Family by Christopher Hitchens.

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Wed - April 11, 2007

Wishful thinking


I often daydream about being an American citizen. This morning was one of those times.

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Mon - February 27, 2006

Windsor Muslims demonstrate


Against cartoons and terrorism

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Thu - December 15, 2005

Iraq the Model


Election day

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Mon - January 31, 2005

The Colour Purple


A vote against the insurgency

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Mon - January 24, 2005

Naomi Klein and Lakshmi Chaudhry


On what we owe Iraq

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Fri - January 14, 2005

The Crucible


"What can be more abominable than this"

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Mon - January 10, 2005

Why are you silent?


An open letter

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Mon - January 3, 2005

Good News from Iraq


Believe it or not!

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Mon - December 20, 2004

Dissent within The Anti-War Movement


Are the neo-fascists ok if they're anti-American?

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Mon - April 26, 2004

Disaster watch


My obsession with Iraq

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Fri - April 9, 2004

Statue Still Falling


One year later

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Wed - April 7, 2004

Iraq


Right war, wrong pretext

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