Politics and its Discontents

There are days when it is difficult to see any long-term future for the human race. Stories abound of both our collective and individual a...

The bigoted backlash against Muslims in light of the recent ISIS attacks is given short shrift by This Hour Has 22 Minutes: Should t...

With the cacophony of voices calling for Canada to continue to "Bomb, Baby, Bomb." and Canadian miscreants retaliating against...

In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, it seems that the world is about to embark on even greater military intervention in the Middle...

Last evening my wife and I attended a talk given by Robert Fisk, the renowned British journalist who has lived in and covered the Middle E...

That's what I derive from Donald Crump's Star letter . It is a shame more of our fellow citizens are not possessed of such critica...

Today I turn, once again, to Star letter-writers to inspire both sanity and hope in our troubled land: No ‘middle’ in Mideast war debat...

You decide . A message from Anonymous to ISIS: We will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails, and expose you… From now on, n...

The Guardian reports the following: Australian Super Hornets pulled out of an air strike on an Islamic State target in Iraq when the ri...

Contrary to what governments want their citizens to do, that is precisely what the following Star letter-writers are engaging in as they ...

As I indicated in yesterday's post , the Harper Conservatives seem very selective in 'standing up for the vulnerable'; they ju...

Some would say that the Harper regime's justification for its decision to commit militarily to the fight against ISIS was patriotic an...

Despite the polls currently showing majority support for Canada's joining in the war against ISIS, the Prime Minister may find that its...

Yesterday, in response to a picture I posted quoting Herman Goering on the ease with which people can be manipulated into war, Scotian, a...

I am dismayed over the general collective amnesia that has once more taken hold of political leaders and the public over the latest so-cal...

With regard to the ISIS threat, here is what Prime Minister Harper had to say in the House: “These are necessary actions, they are noble a...

In the absolutist world of Stephen Harper, there are those who wear white hats and those who wear black. No berets (especially berets!) of...

Blindingly clear for some, obscure and ambiguous for others, the lessons of history need to be given close scrutiny these days, especially...