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On Aug 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S. launched nuclear attacks against the civilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Before Sarah Kramer was removed from her job on June 7, amid a spending scandal, Ms. Kramer had approved about $4.8 million in untendered contracts, spent $51,000 on office furniture and received an $114,000 bonus, on top of her $380,000 annual salary.
"What comes to my mind when I think of our Parliamentary mission to Gaza and the West Bank is one word-apartheid."
(Cartoon with permission. Randy Bish/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). When the G20 Summit is in progress in Pittsburgh next week The Canadian Charger will be there covering it.
Former Ontario Premier Ernie Eves is miffed. Some of the old Tory gang in Ontario is being ousted by brash, populist, extreme right-wingers. When Norm Sterling, a sitting MPP, was ousted in a primary by Jack MacLaren, what happened to Stirling "was not very polite, was not fair, it was not loyal, it was not compassionate, it was not even and it was not honest." Wow!
Climate Change Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYFLEM7hcI&feature=player_embedded
The days of cheap oil will soon be behind us and when they are gone our world will change in ways few of us have probably considered and most would rather not.
One of the universal truths about the media is this famous observation by American journalist A.J. Liebling: "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation?
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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.