For Canada, jumping aboard the sinking American ship in the Middle East is shortsighted. Perhaps worst of all, though, it runs roughshod over what many Canadians perceive to be our collective interest. 87% of respondents polled by the CBC with regards to the Palestinian...
Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part mini-series. Please stay tuned for the conclusion to this article which will be published on FreedomWritersCA on April 1. What do the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, Panama, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau,...
On 10 December 2012, a bomb was found on track 1 of the Bonn train station. Not unlike the attempted terrorist attack on a Deutsche Bahn train (also coming from the Cologne/Bonn area) in July 2006, this bomb’s faulty design prevented the attack from occurring. Lives were...
When ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias failed to show up in Caracas for his fourth inauguration on January 10th, it was widely perceived that the South American nation was finally embarking upon a process of executive transition after fourteen years of rule by the...
2013 will be an auspicious year for elections in the Middle East. On Tuesday, January 22, Israelis head to the polls in a snap parliamentary election to in all likelihood re-elect Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with the only real change being the composition of his ruling...
The Syrian uprising-turned-civil war is a human tragedy of epic proportions. A preliminary statistical analysis carried out by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has just come up with a list of 59,648 victims it has good reason to believe...
Something is rotten in the state of Iran, far, far away from Denmark; something so twisted is going on in the Islamic Republic that Shakespeare himself would find writing a play on the subject to be tumultuous indeed . While the nation no longer has a wily monarch to keep its...
Operation Pillar of Defence (November 2012) represents the most serious military confrontation between Israel and its Arab neighbours since Operation Cast Lead (December 2008 – January 2009). Coincidentally, just like Cast Lead, Pillar of Defence also took place in the Gaza...
The genesis of El Salvador’s youth gangs can be found in the historical civil strife and tensions between the Salvadoran government and paramilitary groups stretching back to the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) during the rule of The Revolutionary Government, a conflict which...
Author's Note: This is the third and final part of a mini-series on the Iranian nuclear program. Part one discussed contemporary U.S.-Iranian relations and steps that the U.S. has taken in attempt to halt the Iranian nuclear program. Part two focused on Iran’s national...
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