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The "big surprise Canadian speaker" at the celebration of the 46th Anniversary of the Palestinian Revolution January 22, 2011 at the Vic Johnson Community Centre in Streetsville was Bob Rae. The crowd cheered and clapped for him like he was a hero, even though most did not know who he was.
Five days after the shooting in Tuscon Arizona that killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Congresswoman Giffords, the CBC reported that in the four days after the shooting, 350 people died of gunshot wounds in the United States, yet this doesn't seem to be an issue, as little or no concern is being shown. Where is the moral outrage toward such senseless carnage?
José Figueroa is currently facing deportation as a threat to national security. When he was a high school student in El Salvador he joined the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberacíon Nacional). The FMLN began as a left-wing guerilla organization opposing the military dictatorship and the death squads and their political masters in the ARENA (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista).
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.
In the aftermath of Arizona's rampage, the public discourse and news media have been seared by a visceral debate that has blamed violence-inciting vitriol by Republican Party elements, and also a pervasive gun culture, for the shooting spree.
When Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian university graduate with a computer science degree, became unemployed and had to rely on selling fruits and vegetables from a cart in his rural town of Sidi Bouzid to support himself, no one outside Tunisia really paid any attention to the desperate economic situation that had obligated him to take such desperate measures.
Less than a month after a young Tunisian graduate, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire triggering a popular revolt against the 23-year rule of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the president has fled to Saudi Arabia, and commentators are speculating on which U.S.-backed tyrants may be next.
Well-informed sources are saying that Tunisian ex-president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, his wife, his family and his wife's family are expected to head to Canada after a stay of several months in Saudi Arabia. Canadians hope that the Harper government does not welcome one of the world's most corrupt leaders. France did not grant Ben Ali's plane landing rights and asked all members of his family already there to leave the country.
(Cairo) Nervous Arab leaders watching young Tunisian demonstrators force an ageing strongman into sweeping concessions are wondering if their own old established formula of political repression will have to change too.
Irving Waller's Less Law More Order (Ancaster, Ontario: Manor House Publishing, 2008) and Rights for Victims of Crime (Toronto, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011).
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