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Taking a stand against the agricultural takeover of the United States and worldwide, a group of Occupy DC members began to protest outside the offices of Monsanto.
There are innumerable good reasons for Syrians to revolt against the Asad regime. The country is saturated with corruption, nepotism, favouritism, bribery, lawlessness, and inept economic policies that have impoverished a lot of people. But the overwhelming cause for the Syrians to revolt is to win back their DIGNITY.
As predictable as the tides, the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brings out the worst of the Ottawa Press Corps.
Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, celebrated Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) by denouncing it as an effort to "demonize and delegitimize the State of Israel."
Antisemitism Real and Imagined: Responses to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, edited by Michael Keefer. Waterloo. Ontario, Canada: The Canadian Charger, 2010, $22.00. Pp. 286.
If the corporate media is successful in drumming up support for war against Iran, the only predictable outcome will be enormous suffering for ordinary people, according to Dr. Michael Keefer, recently retired professor of English at the University of Guelph.
On February 9, Bell Media discharged 16 Ottawa staff, including CFRA talk-show host Michael Harris (No, not that Michael Harris). This one is a left wing, pro-Palestinian guy. So he is out the door. So are 15 others. So what? He was assured that his discharge had nothing to do with the quality of his work.
The Gentile in me believes this question needs to be addressed because there is a very real danger that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, which is being provoked by Israel's terrifying arrogance of power and sickening self-righteousness, will be transformed into anti-Semitism unless two things happen.
Before we get on with this column, here is its context: We are familiar with the Stephen Harper government's penchant for blackballing its critics - for example, calling Jack Layton "Taliban Jack" for suggesting talks with the Taliban, precisely what NATO is doing.
Why is it that it is only now, after 11 months of civilian carnage, that Bashar Assad's victims are beginning to call for foreign military intervention - reluctantly and obliquely at that, out of sheer desperation?
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