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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.
In 2005, world leaders unanimously agreed that in situations where governments were manifestly failing in their sovereign duty, the international community, acting through the United Nations, would take "timely and decisive" action to honour the collective responsibility to protect people against atrocity crimes. Libya today is the place and time to redeem that pledge.
Can Pakistan be governed? Freelance journalist James Traub poses this question in an April 5 'New York Times' article.
It's been two weeks since an earthquake mercilessly shook Haiti, leaving devastation on an unprecedented scale. Since then, ordinary people, NGOs, governments, and international agencies have been rushing to help.
An abridged version of a research paper presented by Profs Erin Steuter and Debprah Wills
The trade deal signed by Canada with the U.S. on Sunday night is called the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Canada will end its military participation in the Occupation of Afghanistan in 2011.
(This article was submitted to The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism http://www.cpcca.ca/home.htm )
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