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Things are intolerable. The killing and torturing. The ruinous neglect and abandonment. The inequality. The refusal to act. The lying. The equanimity. The exploitation.
Shortly before and after 7PM (ET) on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 CBC TV News broke the news of the announcement by Brigadier-General Daniel Menard in Afghanistan that "five Canadian citizens" had been killed at 4PM on Wednesday (Kandahar time) by an IED.
American Raj: liberation or domination Author: Eric Margolis Publisher: Key Porter books Number of pages: 400
The merchants of war have done it again!
Illusions of Security, Maureen Webb, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, pp 306.
A poem by Dr. Qais Ghanem
Cold Blue Eyes has forced his stamp
Practicing Exile, Marc Ellis, Fortress Press, pp 169
When I heard on the news that King Abdulla of Saudi Arabia met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, I was nearly certain that the latter would return to Sanaa. Why else would the potentate of the Middle East meet with such a relatively insignificant leader, under attack by most of his people?
Let me tell you the story of an eight-year-old boy who traveled on camelback across the desert border between modern day Pakistan and India. That boy would eventually settle in Sukkhur, a small town in Pakistan. Little did he know that, within 60 years, the newly-born country to which his parents had migrated would proceed with an experiment that would attempt to define a homogeneous cultural identity in what was then a collection of extremely varied cultures.
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