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Prospects for the Return of a “Decent” Left
Wokeism 2.0: Socialismus Idioticus
Today I was going to take a closer look at the traffic in the conscience-assuaging and revisionist self-congratulation that has dominated attention to the 25th anniversary of the terrorist atrocitie...
The ‘forever war’ is the one you decide to lose
Beloved shahid Fahim Dashty, editor, Kabul Weekly.
He’s gone.
Four sources now confirm that our dear friend Fahim Dashty has been martyred in the Panjshir Valley. I hadn’t heard from him since last Wednesday, and I was worried - over the...
The other huge trade & diplomatic “rupture.”
Three years on, and we’re still not facing up to what really happened.
Today’s newsletter follows from Sunday’s A cautionary tale about national credulity. It goes straight to the modest point I was making about the current Canada-U.S. tra...
What the hell. It’s Labour day.
I’m not being a tease, I promise. I was going to have an in-depth newsletter for you today about the last time Canada was making global headlines in a huge trade and diplomatic rupture with a foreign power. That was in 2023, and the trade p...
A cautionary tale about national credulity
Today’s newsletter involves the last time we were all aghast at what was truly a seismic “fracture” in diplomatic and trade relations with a foreign power. It was three years ago, almost to the day: Trudeau accuses India’s government of inv...
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