Reading Time: 3 minutes It wasn’t violence that freed India from Great Britain. It was love. Weapons didn’t end the Cold War. It was people who chose to love rather than to hate
Tag: War/Conflict
Irish Civil War left long memories and bitter divisions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ninety years ago this month Irish cabinet minister Kevin O’Higgins was assassinated as payback for his role in the Irish Civil War that ended four years earlier
Khadr settlement defies due process, insults Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes None of Khadr’s conspiracy allegations were proven in court, of course, because the Trudeau government sidestepped the public process and defied the rule of law
The dilemma of Omar Khadr
Reading Time: 4 minutes The child soldier argument may support Khadr’s repatriation, but whether the Liberal’s decision to pay him $10.5 million is politically wise remains to be seen
Khadr apology and settlement shameful
Reading Time: 3 minutes As many Canadians struggle on public assistance,. imagine how they feel as confessed terrorist Omar Khadr gets $10.5 million from the Trudeau government
The failed fight against fascism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The bombing of Guernica was a flashpoint in the Spanish Civil War, which became a microcosm of worldwide political and ideological schisms for years to come
For lasting peace, we need to see beyond our fears
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we want true security, we need see beyond our prejudices and invest in global development that promotes justice and progress for all humanity
Under the spectre of the presidential warmonger
Reading Time: 4 minutes Put Donald Trump’s obvious personal flaws aside. The big issue that should have defeated him is his affection for war and violence
Looking for lines in the sand in Syria
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s troubling is the abrupt manner in which the Trump administration reversed policy on Syria. Assad’s barbarism is not exactly news
Easter 1917 marked a First World War turning point
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadians took Vimy Ridge and the Americans finally entered the war. But it would be folly to suggest that the U.S. won the war