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What an irony.
Am I alone in thinking that on a daily basis President Obama is beginning to sound more and more like George "Dubya" Bush when he was talking tough about protecting Americans at home by fighting wars abroad?
Powerful interests in Israel and the United States are intent on pulling strings to have Professor Richard Falk fired half way through his six-year term as the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967.
Dr. Mads Gilbert combines his profession as a physician with political advocacy. He brought his advocacy hat to the University of Ottawa Medical School on January 31, telling the audience about how things were in Gaza when he was working there.
Health is more than biology and genetics, important as those are. At a recent lecture at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, the hospital's Clinical Director of the Community Mental Health Program, psychologist Susan Farrell, discussed the other factors, the social determinants of health, especially as they affect women.
A quick question: can you name the federal cabinet minister responsible for the status of women?
A Christian and a Muslim scholar found a lot to disagree on during a debate, at the North American Muslim Foundation (NAMF) Islamic Center in Toronto recently.
The Dalai Lama has urged Myanmar’s authorities to heed Gautama Buddha’s teachings and cease harassing their Muslim countrymen. Nobel Peace prize winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousufzai have also urged an end to what the United Nations has called the ethnic cleansing of defenseless Rohingya.
September 10 was World Suicide Prevention Day. On that occasion, Dr. Ian Colman of the University of Ottawa, Canadian Research Chairman in Mental Health Epidemiology, spoke before a gathering sponsored by the Ottawa Suicide Prevention Coalition.
The president of Brazil Luiz Inacio has put this way - the current economic mess is the fault of "white people with blue eyes." He means the greed of the rich people in the West is responsible. He later accused the U.S. government officials of corruption especially as they facilitate the drug trafficking into the U.S.
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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.