Neil Balan The recent completion of the 2006 World Social Forum – held simultaneously in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, with another session planned to follow in Karachi, Pakistan this March – added extra emphasis to recent early morning activities. I spent some time over coffee reading another thought-provoking, motorized essay from the February issue [...]
by Foggy Bottom On Saturday February 4th, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council. For the US, this was a significant and long awaited diplomatic victory. Since 2003, it had been actively lobbying the member-states of the IAEA Board of Governors to sanction Iran for technical [...]
by Neil Balan [Note: for the record, initiate celebration. This is my first generation using Open Office, which is now running brilliantly on my laptop. Go open source.] Bear with me. Last week, Nat and I headed down to the besieged Gladstone Hotel for a reading and discussion of two new books by their respective [...]
by Foggy Bottom Canadians live in a vast and inhospitable land. In discussing France’s wars with England over Quebec in the 18th Century, Voltaire once lamented on waste of blood and treasure committed for “quelques arpents de neige.” It is time for Canada to break from the tyranny of cold. It is time that Canada [...]
Foggy Bottom breaks it down. On Wednesday January 25th, against the prediction of the foreign policy analysts, the Islamist party won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, claiming 76 of the 132 parliamentary seats and securing a majority in parliament. While many Palestinians genuinely support the goals of Hamas, many others were simply voting in anger against [...]
(serah-marie is our 4th contributing editor but she was probably my first professional friend. we met on the first day of grade seven. she came up to me on the platform where we were both waiting for the commuter train to take us home. she shook my hand. she figured since we were both wearing [...]
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