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Saturday, October 28, 2006

CANADA'S EMBARRASSING FOREIGN MINISTER

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October 26, 2006 CANADA'S EMBARRASSING FOREIGN MINISTER A Man of Poor Character and Thin Talents Were a senior member of any national go...
Friday, October 20, 2006

ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND CANADA

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October 21, 2006 ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND CANADA Canada's Thirty-Percent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just made a speech at a B'nai...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

NORTH KOREA'S BOMB

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October 12, 2006 NORTH KOREA'S BOMB You might think from all the political noise that something extraordinary happened when North Korea ...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

A SUBTLE FORM OF FASCISM

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October 7, 2006 A SUBTLE KIND OF FASCISM The word fascism is used a lot, often pejoratively. The image that immediately comes to mind is Mus...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

AMERICA HAS JUST LOST TWO MORE WARS

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September 21, 2006 AMERICA HAS JUST LOST TWO MORE WARS For a country which takes excessive pride in flags, uniforms, and marching bands and ...
Friday, September 15, 2006

DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

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September 15, 2006 DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE The rise now of China, Japan, Europe, and others – India, Korea, and to some extent Russia...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

FLAT DADDY: WEIRD STUFF FROM AMERICA'S MILITARY

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September 3, 2006 FLAT DADDY I thought I knew every twist of American popular culture, but apparently not. It is an inventive society, and w...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID?

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July 31, 2006 WHY MUST THE RIGHT WING SOUND SO BRUTALLY STUPID? Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper,...
Friday, July 28, 2006

DELUSIONAL EXPECTATIONS

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July 28, 2006 DELUSIONAL EXPECTATIONS At this writing, Israel has killed six hundred civilians in Lebanon, including more than one hundred c...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

WHEN TERROR IS JUST FINE

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July 18, 2006 WHEN TERROR IS JUST FINE Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech partisans in 1942, Hitler’s government exec...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

AFGHANISTAN IS NO ONE'S WAR

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July 7, 2006 AFGHANISTAN IS NO ONE'S WAR A summary of events leading to the invasion of Afghanistan is helpful. Following 9/11, the Tale...
Friday, June 30, 2006

WHY AMERICAN LIBERALISM IS IMPOSSIBLE

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June 29, 2006 WHY AMERICAN LIBERALISM IS IMPOSSIBLE I heard an interview the other day with Peter Beinart who has a new book called The Good...
Friday, June 09, 2006

TERROR IN TORONTO OR TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT?

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June 9, 2006 TERROR IN TORONTO OR TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT? The arrest in Toronto of seventeen men, mostly quite young, for conspiracy to bomb pl...