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Thursday, April 30, 2009

IGNATIEFF AND HIS PURPOSE IN RETURNING TO CANADA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY WILLIAM JOHNSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL "How do we make this place worthy of our dreams? How do ...

ON THE LEGALITY OF BUSH'S TORTURE TECHNIQUES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Sorry, but this does sound a bit like scholastics arguing over the number ...
Friday, April 24, 2009

THE TWISTED USE OF AHMADINEJAD AS PREPARATION FOR ISRAEL'S ATTACKING IRAN AND THROWING THE WORLD INTO CHAOS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARCUS GEE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Marcus Gee asserts in this column what is not proven and likely ca...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

ON PROSECUTING THOSE AMERICANS WHO TORTURED AND MADE IT POSSIBLE TO TORTURE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINCIAL TIMES The fear of prosecution is the only effective tool we have to prevent repeti...

ON THE SENSIBLE NOTION OF TREATING TERROR AS ORDINARY CRIME

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Treating terror as ordinary crime has always been the view of reasonable p...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

ON OBAMA'S RELEASE OF BUSH TORTURE PAPERS AND HIS REFUSAL TO SEE CIA TORTURERS CHARGED AS THEY SHOULD BE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CON COUGHLIN THE TELEGRAPH What is security, Mr.Coughlin? Is it the security of a healthy, free society or is...

THE ABSURD NOTION OF MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AS "A TRUE PATRIOT SON"

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL VALPY IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Ignatieff is as much a patriot as he is a defender of human ri...

BELIEF THAT THE EARTH WAS FLAT: THE OLDEST NONSENSE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS

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RESPONSE TO A POSTED COMMENT IN THE INDEPENDENT Belief that the earth was flat? Sorry, no educated person believed that in Henry VIII's ...

HENRY VIII AND THE THEORY THAT HIS WOUNDS CAUSED HIS TYRANT BEHAVIOR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT It has been a theory for a very long time advanced by some biographers that Henry's leg w...

AN OBAMA DOCTRINE?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES The world, thank you very much, will do quite well without an "Obama ...

THE UPCOMING PULITZER PRIZES AND THE GENERAL FOOLISHNESS OF PRIZES

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Prizes generally are foolish business. Even the most prestigious - the Nobel - often...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

IT IS ALMOST MEANINGLESS TO APPLY THE WESTERN LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS TO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is a silly leather-armchair-by-the-window editorial. You are imposing c...
Monday, April 13, 2009

AMERICA'S CRIMINALLY STUPID WAR ON DRUGS IS JUST ONE PART OF A LARGER PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Yes, indeed, a criminally stupid war on drugs. Intelligent analysts have s...
Friday, April 10, 2009

ON CBC'S LOWERING OF STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE IN AN EFFORT TO GAIN MASS AUDIENCE: A REGRETTABLE TREND BEST SEEN IN THE EMBARRASSING JIAN GHOMESHI

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Sorry, you have this matter entirely wrong. Jian Ghomeshi clearly did not do the...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

IGNATIEFF KEEPING HIS POLICY IDEAS CLOSE TO THE VEST?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Well, we know where he stood on the use of torture. And we know where he stood on ...

OBAMA GETS A TOKEN 5000 MORE TROOPS FOR AFGHANISTAN FROM NATO: AN IMPRESSIVE NUMBER OF DRIVERS COOKS AND MEDICS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT I am impressed: five thousand more cooks, drivers, and medics. It just could not be clearer t...

BLAIR AND HIS BLUBBERING ABOUT RELIGION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT Blair was always a preacher, never a statesman. Now he is where he belongs, mouthing vapiditi...

OBAMA'S LETTING GO HIS NATIONAL SECURITY APPOINTEE AND THE ISRAEL LOBBY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT This is one of the few times the unpleasant truth behind a high-level American decision has b...

NORTH KOREA'S MISSILE TEST AND THE ASSERTION THAT THE COUNTRY DEFIED THE UNITED STATES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT Defied? I was unaware that Washington served in a paternal role in North Korean affairs. It i...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

MORE TIRESOME CRAP ON THE WAR ON TERROR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY WESLEY WARK IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Wesley Wark's piece is just intellectual Jello. The very idea...

HORRIBLE NEW LAWS IN AFGHANISTAN IN ONE ODD WAY DO REPRESENT PROGRESS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Well, we have made progress of a sort in Afghanistan. We've come full circle...

MORE ON GEORGE GALLOWAY'S NOT BEING ADMITTED TO CANADA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is a shameful episode for Canada. George Galloway is an honest and outspoke...

ON GEORGE GALLOWAY'S BEING REFUSED ENTRY TO CANADA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY REX MURPHY IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Shame on you, Rex Murphy. This column is a nasty piece of weasel-w...

IS OBAMA SIMPLY RE-BRANDING BUSH POLICIES?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIM ES I do think you are drawing conclusions here too early. In foreign affairs...

THE FRITZEL HORROR AND OTHER DARK TRUTHS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY GEORGE PITCHER IN THE TELEGRAPH We know that in the case of child abuse of various types, parents or close re...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

THE STONING OF GEORGE GALLOWAY'S EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE MISSION TO GAZA IS NOT ABOUT GAZA BUT IRAN?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Daniel, these are not well-considered comments. First, you are totally incons...

CHINA'S LOCK-DOWN OF TIBET IS TELLING?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL No, it is this editorial that is telling. It forcefully brings home the fact t...

FRUM TAKES ON LIMBAUGH BUT IS ANYTHING BUT A HERO HIMSELF

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Rush Limbaugh is one of the ugliest phenomena in American politics, perhaps o...

NEWLY DISCOVERED PORTRAIT: RALEIGH OR SHAKESPEARE?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TELEGRAPH It remains a fair question. The portrait has the good looks we would expect from an actor, Shak...

CANADA'S MISSION IS FAILING IN AFGHANISTAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JEFFREY SIMPSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL I don't know what else was ever expected. Of course, the ...

IS INTELLIGENCE HERITABLE?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES There is a lot of confused thinking around this subject. In the U.S., I.Q. te...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

OBAMA KEEPS AFGHANISTAN VERSION OF GUANTANAMO AT BAGRAM AIRBASE GOING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT I am sorry to read of this. But it is America that Obama leads, not Ronald Reagan's fanta...

MORE ANTI-MUSLIM GARBAGE IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DENIS MACEOIN IN THE TELEGRAPH Denis MacEoin, this piece lacks any perspective, save that of uninformed, para...

TONY BLAIR'S PEACE AWARD: WHAT IT IS REALLY ABOUT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ANDREW PIERCE IN THE TELEGRAPH Andrew Pierce couldn't be more right in his main theme. Blair is a ghoul, ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A FORMER GUARD WRITES OF GUANTANAMO BUT SADLY MAKES THE ERROR OF SAYING IT IS AGAINST WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY BRANDON NEELY IN THE INDEPENDENT Thank you for this, Brandon Neely. But your statement near the end that ...

ON ISRAEL AND GAZA AND THE TIRED CHARGE THAT CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITISM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT Howard Jacobson, Yours is a shamefully dishonest article. You are playing word games with mas...

ON AL JAZEERA'S EFFORT TO GET A LICENCE FOR THEIR NEWS SERVICE IN CANADA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL I hope they get their licence. I've followed Al Jazeera on the Internet, and...