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Julia Roberts' 2010 movie "Eat, Pray, Love" gave Indonesia's Bali beaches and the island town of Ubud a high ranking among the world's most popular competing tourist destinations. The movie was based on Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 best-selling memoir about Ubud where she spent time seeking traditional spirituality that leads to love. The island of Bali (population 3.2 million) had 2.5 million visitors in the same year of 2010, more than any other year despite the terrorist bombings of 2002 and 2005.
The Hidstadrut - an Israeli trade union - has been and continues to be instrumental in building the myth of progressive Zionism, according to Katherine Nastovski, a graduate student in Social and Political Thought at York University.
In recent years I have come to view most politicians as merely being puppets and knaves for various oligarchic factions of the ruling class. The Zionist faction of the oligarchy is among the most adept at manufacturing politicians to blindly support its criminal agenda of war and displacement with the ultimate goal of establishing a Greater Israel in the Middle East.
Although it's now nearly fifty years ago, Stella Koostanchin vividly remembers how lonely she felt when, in 1961, at the age of five, she was separated from her parents and taken to St. Ann's School – then a residential school used to “educate” First Nations' children.
Part I - What is Education For?
Over the last ten years there have been periodic outbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli based organization called the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (AKA the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education).
On June 5, The Guardian newspaper released a top secret order of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)that ordered a business division of Verizon Communications to provide "on an ongoing daily basis" metadata for all telephone calls "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls" and all calls made "between the United States and abroad."
Since the late 1990s, I have been a regular visitor to my birth country of Egypt. My love for its unique people, history, nature, food and culture keeps drawing me back. And despite some daunting challenges since 2011, this ancient nation is moving forward.
Egypt 2530 is how Egyptians refer to a new Egypt, in reference to two popular uprisings, both supported by their armed forces, that of January 25, 2011 and the other of June 30, 2013. Both successfully got rid of two tyrants, one secular, Hosni Mubarak, and the second is an Islamist, Mohamed Morsy.
Dr. Mohamed Elmasry of Waterloo has seen the Egyptian police attacking the pro-democracy demonstrators with rubber bullets and tear gas. And this week he also walked among those demonstrators, including families and children, who want to remove President Hosni Mubarak, as they assembled in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square.
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