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Even if you're a casual follower of the news, no doubt over the past couple of years you've seen a story or two about Brexit.
Warrant office Roger Perreault’s wife Fran remembers her husband’s departure date from CFB Petawawa to Afghanistan very clearly
Irvin Waller. Science and Secrets of Ending Violent Crime: Lanham, MD, 2019
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democratic deputy prime minister of Britain, told the world that the riots in London, Leeds, and Birmingham had "absolutely nothing to do with the death of Mark Duggan", who was killed by police in circumstances that raised question about police conduct in the situation. Wrong, Nick. The death of Duggan served as a trigger.
"There would NOT have been a war if Israel's prime minister, the much maligned Levi Eshkol, and his Chief of Staff, General Yitzhak Rabin, had their way," said Hart who was a Middle East reporter for the ITN (Independent Television News) before, during and after the 1967 war, "After Egypt's President Nasser had closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, they wanted only a limited military operation - to satisfy Israeli public opinion and, most of all, to put pressure on America to lead the international community in delivering on a promise President Eisenhower had made - that in the event of Egypt closing the Straits of Tiran, the "society of nations" would be mobilized to cause the Straits to be re-opened by all means short of war."
Istanbul - I am overseas as the whole Abu Qatada hate fest unfolds back in London. And from my seat over-looking the Bosphorus I am cringing with embarrassment and wondering what on earth has happened to my country.
Obviously, one of the most outstanding signs of the deep crisis Egypt undergoes right now is the wide gap separating the vision of the Egyptians who took to the streets on June 30th against Mohamed Morsi and that of the western media and the way it covers what is going on in Egypt.
While western democracies - including Canada - clamour to do business with the quasi civilian government that took power in Myanmar in March 2011, the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the country continues unabated.
As an academic I, along with my graduate students, have spent the last 45 research years inventing digital chips which are smarter, faster and consume less power. When these chips hit the consumer market they were given the name 'smart chips', and the devices they support are 'smart phones,' or 'smart this' and 'smart that.'
At 2:00 PM on Monday November 15th, approximately 15 members (lower estimate) of the Israel Awareness Club (IAC) at the University of British Columbia attended the annual general meeting of the Social Justice Center (SJC). At this AGM, they demanded that the SJC revoke their decision to fund SPHR-UBC and the George Galloway event scheduled on Monday November 22nd.
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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.