Politics and its Discontents

While most of the mainstream media focus on the genocidal actions of Israel in Gaza, there is another taking place in the West Bank, euphemi...

H/t Theo Moudakis A new report finds a dramatic rise in antisemitism in Canada since the Hamas attack in Israel provoked a protracted, ongo...

I reproduce the following story without comment, except to state the obvious. It is a testament to the courage and integrity of those des...

I was never a fan of Joan Rivers, though I take no pleasure in the fact that she has died. However, you can call me churlish and insensitve,...

As I have written in the past , poor leadership costs all of us dearly. Whether looking at local provincial, federal or international pol...

Now that I have your attention, let me assure that I am not the source of that praise. No, a site called Breaking Israel News is. Drawing...

But, unfortunately, says nothing. As I have noted elsewhere in this blog and in comments on others', I have grave misgivings about th...

Here is the note written by Leigha Cohen as an introduction to the following video on You Tube featuring Chris Hedges: On August 9th, 201...

Noted recently is the widespread criticism that both Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair have earned by either their silence or their very ...

The other day I posted a video showing an Irish Senator and internationally recognized human rights activist, David Norris, speaking impa...

Given the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, many in Canada have been dismayed, not by the predictable and uncritical enthusiasm for all thi...

The Irish Senator and internationally recognized human rights activist, David Norris, delivered an eminently powerful speech concerning Gaz...

Many thanks to The Salamander, who, in his response to a post from last evening , sent along this link to the John Oakley Show. On the sh...

Yesterday I wrote about the plight of Salma Abuelaish , the eight-year-old girl whose family moved to Canada from Gaza and became Canadian...

The New York Times' columnist, Richard Cohen, offers some brilliant insights into the Gaza conundrum, a place he calls, " an open-a...

Texas Governor Rick Perry provides an expert technique lesson in the following video:

I hope you didn't miss it. The events of the past month in that distant corner of the world, the mid-east, shone a light of fierce ...

The following pictures of the devastation in Gaza wrought by the Israeli onslaught are all from Al Jazeera :

My brother sent me a link to a photo-essay in The Washington Post said to depict an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. It's a nice story as t...

While the cost of the Israeli invasion of Gaza is almost incalculable in turns of human suffering and loss of life, there is another casua...