History Professor Alfred McCoy produced The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in 1972. The CIA interfered with the book’s publication but its condemnation of American complicity in the drug trade is accepted as accurate and reliable. Dr. McCoy appeared with Jeremy Scahill on the March 7 edition of Intercepted Podcast. I found their wide ranging discussion informative, shocking and alarming…
An SDS radical, Dr. Lawrence Davidson took voluntary exile in Canada during the early seventies. Returning home after six years, he became an educator and now writes commentary, often about American responses […]
The Trudeau government will alter Canada’s harsh tone on international affairs to emphasize conflict resolution and peacekeeping. The Prime Minister said when deploying our men and women in uniform, the case must […]
Psychologist Dr. Mike Webster writes often about relationships between senior management and the men and women delivering police services in our communities. He knows about moral disengagement, which allows virtuous people to commit inhumane acts and Webster’s words can help us gain understanding…
CTV reported late Friday that “the streets of Paris are streaked with blood” and one of its star reporters spoke about “terror acts empty of human purpose.” If Tom Walter’s opinion is […]
. Photos of Kobani, Syria, a former city described by The Guardian: …it’s an extraordinary, nightmarish place they find, barely recognisable as a city. Piles of rubble where buildings once stood, burnt-out […]
Being troubled by patriotic zealotry and glorification of war, I feel vaguely discomforted by Remembrance Days, particularly when craven politicians take centre stage at memorials. While struggling to find words that conveyed […]
“…we actually share some responsibility for those deaths because, for us, it is no priority whatever, to stop it. Our United Nations, our Government, our World is not that interested…” Jon Snow […]
From Jay Rosen’s Press Think, Edward Snowden, meet Jeff Bezos: “…It’s not enough to defy the government and reveal what it wants to keep secret. When you go up against the most […]
From Michael Shermer, monthly columnist for Scientific American, a respected science magazine founded in 1845. Link to Dr. Shermer’s complete article, Five Myths of Terrorism. It is worth reading, particularly if you wonder […]
One of the most significant articles you’ll read anytime is by John Naughton, professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University, published in The Observer, July 28, 2013: Without […]
As a journalist, Jody Paterson often wrote about Canadian children and families. Now, she and partner Paul Willcocks do humanitarian work in Honduras through Cuso International. One of their projects assists forty […]
Our current home renovation project put us back in the market for major appliances. That brought to mind a 2010 piece, providing my view of Maytag, a once successful manufacturer that lost […]
From Robert Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future, March 29, 2012: In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1 percent of […]
Shell: Own Up and Pay Up to Clean Up the Niger Delta Dear Supporter, There used to be life and hope in the Niger Delta town of Bodo, a village filled with […]
http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf Aljazeera, US troops to help Uganda fight rebels “US President Barack Obama has announced he is deploying 100 “combat-equipped” troops to Uganda to help efforts against rebels of the Lord’s Resistance […]
“The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of it valid — but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots. “Time and […]
Is there irony in America’s rush to deploy drones and remote controlled weaponry around the world? From Joseph Nevins at the Boston Review, Robocop: In September 2010 the House Unmanned Aerial Vehicles […]
British Defence Minister Liam Fox is proud of U.K. arms traders. He welcomed dealers and customers from around the world to the 2011 Defence and Security Equipment (DSEi) arms fair in London. […]
The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussedby Gareth Porter, CommonDreams.org In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of […]
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A huge fan of long-eclipsed Russian military glory, Mr. Putin expected Ukraine to collapse in 3 days. Three years ago.…
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Blair Fix at _Economics from the Top Down_ also wrote two very good papers on the converion of housing into…