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  • Fighting terrorism, the Harper wayReuel S. Amdur
    August 24, 2013

    Last May, Tory MP Devinder Shorey introduced a private member's bill, C-425. It is now before the House. There are three elements in the bill.

  • Gander is part of the US rendition expressReuel S. Amdur
    August 24, 2013

    Gander has been a way-station for CIA rendition flights secretly headed for Guantánamo and to overseas destinations. British academics from Kent and Kingston Universities have put together a detailed account of flights, identifying the specific airplanes used, their trajectories, names of companies involved (in many cases shell companies belonging to the CIA), dates of departure from Gander and return, starting points, and destinations.

  • Canada's place in the worldReuel S. Amdur
    August 25, 2013

    There is a continuing on-and-off controversy about Canada's sometimes plan to purchase a fleet of F35 fighter jets.

  • Palestine/Israel: The mirage of a peace settlementReuel S. Amdur
    August 25, 2013

    What can we make of the 2000 new housing units that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has authorized for the West Bank and East Jerusalem? There are several factors.

  • The future of psychiatryReuel S. Amdur
    August 25, 2013

    "The future is not what it used to be." That is how Dr. Simon Hatcher began his recent presentation at the Royal Ottawa Hospital.

  • Those disappearing jobsReuel S. Amdur
    August 25, 2013

    Paul Craig Roberts calls them "banksters"-rhymes with "gangsters".

  • Surviving with FibromyalgiaReuel S. Amdur
    September 8, 2013

    Over the years I have had the occasional client suffering from fibromyalgia. I have one right now. I am a social worker in private practice who assists people in appealing disability applications rejected under such programs as the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), CPP, and Régie des rentes du Québec. That is how I come to encounter them.

  • The Syrian tragedyReuel S. Amdur
    October 8, 2013

    Last summer, Vladimir Putin has, it seems, let the air out of President Barack Obama's balloon. Obama was carefully attempting to craft support at home and abroad for a limited action against Bashir al-Assad, to punish him for unleashing chemical weapons on his own citizens. However, Putin proposed, and Assad agreed, that all Syrian chemical weapons would be put under international control.

  • Harper brings third world health care to CanadaReuel S. Amdur
    October 8, 2013

    On September 25, Stephen Harper boldly announced to the UN Panel on Maternal and Child Health that over a period of five years Canada would contribute $203 million to improve conditions of child birth and pregnancy in the developing world. This announcement apparently amounted to a steep discount from the pledge of $3 billion over five years made at the G8 summit in 2010 but with Harper's accounting skills, one is never sure.

  • What is trauma?Reuel S. Amdur
    October 8, 2013

    On September 18, there was a horrific accident in Ottawa, involving a bus and a train, with injury and loss of life. In quick response to this event, the Royal Ottawa Hospital held a public information session a week later, to inform survivors, families and friends, and the general public about how to cope with such traumatic events. Psychologists Luis Oliver and Michele Boivin presented the information.

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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.

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