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Op Ed: Oba Mao in China14 Nov 2009 Financial Post Most of Obama’s many foreign trips have been hurtful to American interests. Don’t expect anything to change now. No president has travelled more than Barack Obama in his first year — his current trip to Asia is his eighth. The first seven took him nowhere. In the afterglow of each, his prestige declined as his results proved ephemeral. Full story » Common ground9 Feb 2008 Americans are not like us. The U.S. election campaigns demonstrate the divide. Barack Obama inspires on a message of uniting Americans. "I'll be the President who finally brings Democrats and Republicans together," he said after the results were in on Super Tuesday, in a signature theme of his campaign. He is running as a candidate who can rise above partisan bickering and work with the opposition to "get things done for the American people." Full story » Harper, patriot20 Jan 2006 National Post Stephen Harper is a separatist. Stephen Harper is unpatriotic. Stephen Harper can't even bring himself to say he loves his country. Full story » Free Newfoundland8 Jan 2005 National Post It is June 3, 2008, and an overwhelming 71% of Newfoundlanders have today voted to separate from Canada. The province will now begin to negotiate its exit from Confederation. Full story » Wilful blindness19 Mar 2003 National Post Peaceniks in St. Petersburg [right], Russia, on March 18, protest against war in Iraq. Credit: Dmitry Lovetsky, AP Photo. In 1981, when Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor to prevent it from making nuclear weapons fuel, Norman Rubin, my colleague at Energy Probe, lauded the Israeli action. Full story » A clean slate for Iraq12 Feb 2003 The New Yorker In February, 1895, Cuban nationalists seeking independence from Spain took to the hills and started a campaign of guerrilla warfare. When initial efforts to put down the rebellion failed, the Spanish military relocated hundreds of thousands of Cuban farmers into fortified concentration camps, where they soon fell prey to hunger and disease. In the United States, publicity about the camps fanned hostility toward the Spanish and, eventually, inspired calls for U.S. intervention in Cuba (where, not coincidentally, America had important economic and strategic interests). Full story » Discussion group on - Robed dictators21 Sep 1998 The Next City
A coup from the courtroom has usurped our democracy Book reviews - No enemies to the left21 Sep 1998 The Next City Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century by John Ralston Saul (Viking, 1997. 546 pages) $36.99 Editorial - The end of national currencies21 Dec 1997 The Next City
Editorial - Down with left and right21 Mar 1997 The Next City
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