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Since October 7, scores of writers have authored scores of columns pleading – to no avail – with prominent politicians who wield transformative...
Another day, another outrage. That is the inevitable lot of Palestinians in the grim, dystopian wasteland that is Gaza. It is inevitable because it...
It is over. I wrote a column a few months ago expressing the sincere hope that Joe Biden would lose the upcoming presidential election. Now, I can...
I wanted to be wrong, but it turns out that I was right. Since early October, I have been sure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had...
Politicians love to talk. It’s a big part of the job. You talk in legislatures. You talk at committees. You talk to voters. You talk to reporters....
I need to preface this column with the following proviso: Given the scale of the cruel circumstances, my reading of the much-anticipated preliminary...
It’s not often that a columnist is obliged to make reference to pizza in the midst of a rogue-nation-made famine. But the times and decency demand...
Inevitably, contempt breeds disgust. Anyone with a scintilla of awareness and sympathy for the horrors that Palestinians have endured for generations...
Joe Biden is a lie and a liar. That opening sentence is meant to sting. More importantly, it is meant to shatter the happy caricature that the sitting...
It was a choreographed scene starring the US president and First Lady that was meant to convey the restorative spirit of the festive season. Last...
Some of Israel’s most prominent enablers now claim to abhor the scope of Israel’s wanton killing of Palestinians with a barrage of bullets, bombs,...
More than two years after his death, the odious spirit of Donald Rumsfeld has been resurrected. It is not surprising. Every US administration has its...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a forgotten man fighting a forgotten war. The Ukrainian president’s shooting star has lost much of its altitude and gleam as...
It will be remembered, I hope, as the hug that sank a craven president. It was mid-October. US President Joe Biden made the requisite pilgrimage to...
It was a spontaneous moment of honesty and clarity. Representative Angie Nixon, a Democrat, was speaking earlier this month on the floor of the...
In the West, this is the season of remembrance. It is an almost sacred time, when we are obliged to pause and reflect on loss and sacrifice and to...
Save for humane Ireland and Scotland, most Western diplomatic corps, including the banal dilettantes who staff Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa and...
Sociopaths in suits. With all their genteel embroidery and grand honorifics, the mundane men who lead Western “democracies” in Washington, DC,...
Since Israel began its blatant genocide of occupied Gaza almost three weeks ago, a frothing army of pedestrian Western politicians has confirmed their...
These awful times require each of us to make a choice. Will we choose measure over mayhem? Will we choose humanity over horror? Will we choose...
So, US President Joe Biden got off a big plane in Tel Aviv on Wednesday and embraced a war criminal whose war crime-addicted military had, only hours...
The cataclysm that you and I are witnessing in Gaza is a genocide in the awful making. It is not an “onslaught”. It is not an “invasion”. It...
This fact may come, I suspect, as a surprise to many people whose grasp of the world is shaped by their exclusive consumption of Western media: Israel...
The perpetual outrage-du-jour circus otherwise known as Canada’s political discourse is, surprisingly, on pause. By my count, it’s been about 48...
For anyone with functioning sight and synapses, it’s become obvious that some rogue Canadian spies are, in effect, in charge of Canada’s foreign...
Canada is the world’s doormat. A big, insecure nation that pleads to be taken seriously as an indispensable global “player” is, instead, largely...
One way or another, all love affairs end – often badly. At least in politics. In 2015, when he became prime minister with a robust majority at age...
By now, the British monarchy ought to have been put into hospice care. It would, at the least, be a merciful end to a spent, vacuous institution that...
Every once in a while, Sarah Palin tries to escape the purgatory of irrelevancy by doing or saying something that the failed Congressional candidate...