Al Zaatri, Jordan (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Hosts about 122,723 Syrian refugees. Almost 5,000 citizens a day on average are flowing out of Syria, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said Tuesday. Dadaab, Kenya (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) A complex of five camps hosts 402,361 people, mostly from neighboring Somalia. Here,
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Emily Badger discusses how poverty affects people who are forced to use their physical and mental resources on bare survival: Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to
Continue readingLeDaro: Barack Obama seeks Congress’s approval before launching an attack on Syria
What happens if Congress turns Obama down the way the British Parliament did to Cameron? The Syria attack story is an unfolding drama. What next?
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: VIDEO: Winnipeg Rally “No War with Syria”
Aug. 31, 2013: Winnipeggers rallied to voice opposition to foreign intervention in Syria’s civil war. Photo: Paul S. Graham About 50 Winnipeggers rallied at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights Saturday afternoon to express their opposition to foreign military interventions in Syria. The rally, organized by Winnipeg Alternative Media, was
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama & Syria: A Rehearsal for Iran?
After Prime Minister David Cameron’s failure to bring along with him a majority of the MPs in the British Parliament, America has been reduced to vocal support from Germany (but no fighting Germans) and vocal and forceful support from France, in his attempts to put together a coalition to punish
Continue readingLeDaro: Is Canada going to participate in Syrian war?
The answer is yes. The participation will be covert. King Harper is not going to sit and just watch it. He doesn’t want silly discussions in the Canadian Parliament – there he is in favour of pro-rogue. HMCS Toronto “Military sources tell CTV News it would take at least a
Continue readingTory MPs defy government
No, the above headline most certainly does not refer to Canadian Tory MPs. In the recent vote in the British House of Commons on Prime Minister David Cameron’s motion to initiate military action against Syria, all attention was focused on the defeat of the motion. And rightly so—the vote was
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: US and France Preparing To Attack Syria
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is a news report from Turkey followed below by a video report that dates back to June and certainly contradicts the line that we are being constantly fed by the Obama administration. Turkey News reporter Tariq ep says rebels storing Sarin in Turkey: Syrian army seizes sarin
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Does This Sound Like War, Playground Rules?
Anyone skeptical about the wisdom of an American attack on Syria should consider the options sketched out by former Obama deputy assistant secretary of state, Suzanne Nossel. Seriously, this sounds like war waged by playground rules. It begins with a show of force, a cruise missile strike. What happens afterwards,
Continue readingLeDaro: Syrian civil war and the plight of children
THREE’S COMPANY: Girls looked from behind a curtain at their family’s home at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Thursday. (Ashraf Amra/APA Images/Zuma Press)WSJ. It is very sad to see these children. What kind of life is awaiting them? However, bombing Syria is not the answer. U.S and other
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada Should Follow Britain’s Lead
David Cameron wanted to bomb Syria so bad his teeth hurt. There was just one problem, Britain’s Iraq War fiasco. Because of Iraq, David Cameron had promised to allow parliament a veto on going to war back in 2010. He had even committed himself to repealing the royal prerogative, the
Continue readingcmkl: On Syria: dear world, please listen to Robert Fisk
Despite the odd title and even stranger subtitle the editors have given it, Robert Fisk has a good take on how things are lining up now that the US, France and apparently Al Qaeda have decided that the Syrian regime has to go.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: An Abstract Posting
On a random side note, I’ve decided to close down the Canadian Political Philosophy blog; I’ve had enough delays in dealing with this blog, and the other one was a bit too time consuming to keep going. Perhaps I’ll change my mind, but if not, the issue…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: An Abstract Posting
On a random side note, I’ve decided to close down the Canadian Political Philosophy blog; I’ve had enough delays in dealing with this blog, and the other one was a bit too time consuming to keep going. Perhaps I’ll change my mind, but if not, the issues talked about there
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Video: George Galloway’s impassioned speech opposing attack on Syria: UK parliament votes NO to military action
One of the highlights of the British parliamentary debate on Syria was the rousing speech delivered by Respect Party MP for Bradford West, George Galloway. He delivered with trademark conviction and elan, stating his opposition to any British involvement in an attack on Syria. This is part of what Galloway
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: A Case Against Invading Syria
With the UK and the United States arguing that it’s time to take action against Syria, it seems a good time to consider the consequences of such involvement from the NATO powers. On general principles, I do not believe that there is a particularly strong case for any of the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Same shit, different country
Based on recent history, I wouldn’t trust the US and/or UK to lead a military intervention into anything, whatever the stated justification. They’ve consistently lied about their reasons for going to war and then they continue to lie about how the wars are being conducted, the damage and casualties that
Continue readingLeDaro: A missile attack on Syria will further perpetuate the civil war
According to Clare Short, Former Secretary of State for International Development, it will be a blunder to carry out a missile attack on Syria. In a column in The Huffington Post she writes: “It is notable that the Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention said after the
Continue readingLeDaro: Barack Obama and Martin Luther King
Was Obama a suitable person to give a speech on the 50th anniversary of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech? MLK may have his own weaknesses as he was human after all, but he was not a hypocrite like Obama. It was Martin Luther King’s efforts and Lyndon Johnson’s co-operation
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