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It is estimated that up to a million people died as a function of George Bush Jr.'s decision to invade Iraq. According to Bush, that decision was made on the basis of "faulty intelligence." This is the ex-president's way of passing the blame.
Donald Trump has been speaking aloud what Republicans have been dog-whistling—racial concern and xenophobia. That has been his strength in certain sectors of the population and his weakness elsewhere. So said Prof. Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia Canadian Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation. He was speaking recently at a Big Thinking event on Canada's Parliament Hill.
Can we finally say the thing we have not said so far?
The testimony of American women who recently joined the ranks of the homeless following the collapse of the housing credit market, is a wakeup call to Canadians: Resist any Americanization of Canada by the Harper government - even better, defeat it in the next election!
In a case being watched closely by thousands of bondholders around the world, investors in defaulted pre-WWII German government bonds will finally get their day in court, after a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that American courts have jurisdiction to decide whether the bonds are enforceable.
A lot has been written about Wikileaks since the whistle-blowing organization leaked its 92,000-document cache on the carnage in Afghanistan caused by the American war and occupation.
The American Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is calling for an independent investigation into a highly controversial October 28 raid, in which a Detroit area imam was shot to death by FBI agents.
People often tell me that they do not read science fiction or fantasy. Understandable when they think of sci-fi as full of unlikely robots and suspect fantasy is too far-fetched.
We Americans become like the moribund Hapsburg Empire which was said to have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.
(April 5, Washington, DC) Julian Assange and Wikileaks kept their promise of February 20 by releasing a video tape that shows civilians and reporter deaths from an attack by United States forces. The tape was presented at a 9:00 am press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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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.