Former federal Conservative operative, Alykhan Velshi, is at it again. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s communications director, earlier this year, he stirred controversy when he used Canadian government stationery while canvassing for Pri…
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RedBedHead: Afghanistan In Disarray? Blame Iran Even If It’s B.S.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that at the end of a bad month for the client regime in Afghanistan and the NATO colonial project in general, that the US made the discovery that Iran was supporting al Qaeda and needed to announce it. I also believe ot…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Ahmadinejad May Be On Way Out
Al Jazeera is speculating that hothead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be about to resign. He has clashed with his country’s real power, its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but the straw that may have broken Ahmad’s camel’s back …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Twisting Baghdad’s Arm
America’s new defense secretary, Leon Panetta, has probably never won a poker game in his life.Washington, or at least the Pentagon, is wracked with anxiety over whether it will get an invitation from the Iraqi government to keep US forces in Iraq past…
Continue readingImpeaching Ahmadinejad
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, has a problem. He wholeheartedly supported incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential election, and now it turns out the flaky Ahmadinejad is being a bad boy. Allies of the president and his chi…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch Iran short documentary: Interrupted Lives
Since the Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution) of 1979, at least 1600 students have been executed in Iran for their ideas, thoughts, speech, beliefs, and social activism. Interrupted Lives is a 20 minute documentary created by the …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Egypt’s Shifting Geopolitical Policies: A Consequence of Democracy
The recent democratization of Egypt has resulted in a series of distinct policy changes with regards to Israel, Palestine and Iran. These changes ultimately represent a shift in Egyptian policy towards the popular opinion of many Egyptians that are bec…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Is Canadian Uranium Fueling Iran’s Nuclear Program? Follow the links.
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, seems like a dog’s age since I done any boogin’. I been twitterin’ up a storm but I reckon I ain’t been motivated enough to typewrite more’n a hunnert an’ forty characters at a time. Until now, that is.
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Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Wikileaks: Misanthropy and the Spectre of Scrutiny
Amid the bluster surrounding the public release of 278 of 251,287 secret and confidential USG diplomatic cables by Wikileaks as of Monday November 29th; more telling as to the behaviour and thinking of governments and vested interests is the current reaction in the world media and of public officials, than
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Greenbacked-up as hell and not taking it anymore
Roll out red carpetsHere come the China boys– The Payola$ (1979)A report by Robert Fisk (the only Western journalist to ever interview Osama bin Laden) in today’s Independent augurs ill for the continuance of the United States’ dominance of world fina…
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