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What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment.
In the predawn hours of May 31, I was aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part of a convoy of humanitarian vessels aiming to deliver aid to besieged civilians in Gaza, when we were attacked in international waters by a unit of Israeli commandos.
9/11 was, and still is, the most politicized terror attack this century; hijacked by the American extreme right and Zionists to advance their political agenda; exporting wars, death, destruction and misery, eroding civil liberties at home and disrespecting human lives including those of Americans'. But what if America's extreme right and Zionists had not hijacked 9/11 and the U.S. government had treated 9/11 as a terror attack, as a tragedy, as a criminal act of violence which needed to be properly investigated?
While the Portuguese were conquering Ceuta, Morocco, in 1412, they were impressed with many goods that came from Timbuktu, Mali, a prosper
"Your Lord is He who causes ships to move onward for you through the sea, so that you might go about in quest of some of His bounty." (Qur'an 17:66)
"There is indeed a strong tendency in African studies to regard Africa as the passive continent par excellence, and insulting to both Africa and women, some have called Africa the female continent in the special sense of passivity-patient and penetrable." Professor Ali Mazrui, The Africans
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just started a tour of Africa
Africans can forgive, but they cannot afford to forget.
What if Europeans hadn’t “discovered” Africa? What if Africans had been left alone since 1412? What level of human development might they have achieved by now? What was the rate of human development in Africa during the 1,000 years prior to 1412?
I won't lie to you; my job would become easier by yards, it being possible that Stephen Harper would ditch the metric system to please the Americans. (Although I was born at just the wrong time and still measure everything in ounces centigrade.)
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