Trudeau's Carnival Arrives in Ottawa
It was a spectacle, as expected.Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister was sworn in today, and he means to get down to business immediately.Forty-three year old Justin Trudeau announced his new Cabinet and...
View ArticleSyrian refugees still coming to Canada
The overwhelming number of victims of Daesh are Muslims.Most, but not all, Syrians feeing their own government and jihadi groups such as Daesh are Muslim.That one probable fake Syrian passport has...
View ArticleA Done Deal: Diplomacy Drowns Out Drums of War
Late last year after the nuclear deal between the world’s six major powers and Iran had been signed, Republican Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio wrote in Foreign Affairs that the world is safest when...
View ArticleHeaven's help and the US Primaries
Unless you have been living on Planet 9 (Mars is too close), you will be aware that ‘we’ are in the home stretch for the Iowa Caucus....the first of the generators of momentum, consolidation, winnowing...
View ArticleTrump or be Trumped
Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Republican Presidential candidates‘ debate on Fox ‘News’ is a master stroke - for Donald Trump, and in his world, that is all that matters.read more
View ArticleThe Apogee of the Authentic?
In the biggest night of their political careers outsiders Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders swept aside the ‘insiders’ and nailed the New Hampshire primary.read more
View ArticleTrump Panic
On the cusp of Super Tuesday - when 14 states and American Samoa vote for their Democrat or Republican Presidential candidate, the stench of panic within the Republican party over the rise of its own...
View ArticleBlair as tormented victim…
Tony Blair just does not get it.After the savaging he was dealt by the long awaited, 2.6 million word Chilcot inquiry, Blair spoke to the press for nearly two hours in order to make sure the world knew...
View ArticleThe United States of Guns and Racism
On CNN at the end of last week one of the commentators, sad face on, remarked that “this (the Dallas shootings of police and the latest two police executions of black men) is not America”.News flash:...
View ArticleErdogan's swift coup revenge...
Turkey’s fifth military coup d’etat was crushed only hours after it began, but the ramifications of those hours of miscalculated actions are immense for Turkey, the region and the wider world.The rule...
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