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(Pittsburgh, September 26, 2009) The Pittsburgh G20 protesters were scheduled to pass through the downtown about 12:30, yesterday (Friday) but we waited what seemed like forever, for them to arrive.
(Pittsburgh, September 25, 2009) Although downtown Pittsburgh was quiet in the days leading up to the G20 Summit, they had moved the national guard in days before,
(Pittsburgh, September 26, 2009) Human Rights and the Struggle for Global Justice was the title of the day-long symposium, at the United Steelworkers building, in downtown Pittsburgh.
In my opinion, the most significant gathering of 2009 took place in Melbourne, Australia, from Dec 3-8: The Conference of World Parliament of World Religions.
I don't understand why we (Canadians) do not have a government or even Opposition Leaders who are interested in taking what steps they can to protect us.
"It is a systemic genocide which lasted 30 years against 88 million Egyptians. This crime is committed by no other than the Mubaraks; the man, his two sons and his wife," wrote Abdul Halim Qandeel in his column of May 5, 2008.
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith has once again shown its loss of integrity. It has joined the bigots opposed to the construction of a Muslim community centre a couple of blocks away from the site of the World Trade Centre, which was destroyed on 9/11.
In an interview with The Canadian Charger, Dr. Stuart McGill said that generic exercise for those with back pain will not be successful. McGill is professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo.
Stephen Harper has been talking recently about "old stock" Canadians -- and at the same time stirring up fear and loathing against more recent arrivals in this country, notably those of Muslim faith, in order to mobilize electoral support for his Conservative Party.
They called it the "Phoney War" - or, in German, "der Sitzkrieg" (the "sitting war") - that period between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Battle of France in the spring of 1940. The two sides dug in and nothing much happened, on the land in Europe at least.
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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.