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Yemen's revolution is not covered by the Western media. The US direct intervention in Yemen is set against the people's struggle for freedom and democracy. During the last five months 1000s of civilians were killed or wounded by President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime. The US still has the option to avoid more bloodshed by encouraging Saleh to step down.
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 the upcoming Liberal Leadership Convention in March, my vote will be for Mark Carney.
The Muslims are coming is an Islamophobic propaganda that has inspired Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik and is advanced by the extreme right and Zionists to mean that Western Muslims will turn the West into a worse place - more Western initiated wars, more debt, less morality, less social justice, less freedom and less education and health care. But how was one Muslim-ruled European country and how was the rest of Europe at that time?
"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.
Ramadan and Eid bring to me so many happy memories. My experience of being a child in Cairo during the month of Ramadan in the 1950’s can easily fill up several memory chips.
My two personal contacts with Libya have been at airports and both were shocking.
Ten years is a relatively brief time in the history of a country. But more changes have taken place in Canada since September 11, 2001 than in any other time since the end of the Second World War. Our country was not even the primary target of the crime of 9/11, yet Canadians in general - and Canadian Muslims in particular -- are still living under the persistent shadow of 9/11.
It has been six months since the people of Syria went to the streets. Like those in Egypt before them, they were and still are peacefully calling for dignity, freedom, democracy and social justice. They have been denied these rights by the ruling Assad's family for over 40 years, first by the father Hafez and then since July 2000 by the son Bashar following his father's death.
Last week I signed an international appeal regarding the dire situation in Yemen; a forgotten country where a brutal regime is killing its people for the last 8 months:
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In early 2023, months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians, renowned French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd opined that World War III had begun.