Category Archives: United States

Canada’s Misguided Push to Purchase a Costly and Outmoded Weapon

Posted on December 19, 2010
Jim by Jim

At the rally outside MacKay’s office on Thursday, Kennedy carried a banner which quoted Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Costa Rica: “Military spending represents the single most significant perversion of worldwide priorities known today.” Continue reading →

Posted in Asides and Musings, Canadian Politics and Politicians, Current Affairs, independent politics, United States | 4 Comments

The Time Has Come For the Canadian Parliament to Show Some Will

Posted on November 12, 2010
Jim by Jim

formulate a question and exercise a little democracy – ask Canadians if they want to spend 20 billion dollars on jet fighters over the next 15 years or spend the same amount on those social programmes I mentioned and debt/deficit reduction…and see what they say. Continue reading →

Posted in Asides and Musings, Canada in Afghanistan, Canadian Politics and Politicians, Current Affairs, Diplomacy, Good Works, independent politics, United Nations, United States | 5 Comments

Conspiracy Theories – Sometimes There’s Fire beneath the Smoke

Posted on November 7, 2010
Jim by Jim

9/11 Conspiracy? Maybe. General James Conway was one of the “message force multipliers” assigned by the Pentagon to harden U.S. public opinion. As the general put it on one occasion, “Our primary strategic target was our own population.” Continue reading →

Posted in Asides and Musings, Current Affairs, United States, War on Terror, World Peace | 4 Comments

The Middle East: End of History, or Beginning of a New Era (pt.2)

Posted on February 27, 2010
Jim by Jim

Here and there we catch glimpses of light that shine through the cracks in the walls of bigotry and hatred we have slowly built up, quite often not even knowing why we built such walls in the first place. Peace in the Middle East is still possible. Continue reading →

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The Middle East: End of History, or Beginning of a New Era (pt. one)

Posted on February 26, 2010
Jim by Jim

The foundational problem of what is, by any stretch, a profound and ongoing crisis, is the inability of both Palestinians and Israelis to come to terms with their own history either separately or together, a point made by the professor from Tel Aviv. Continue reading →

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