An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms: Information Clearing House: ICHStephen Harper, Conservatives and Liberals : you should take heed of this letter too. The situation in Afghanistan with Canadian troops is also poi…
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Art Threat: Toronto theatre fest gets funding pulled – A conversation with Artistic Producer Michael Rubenfeld
Toronto’s indie theatre festival SummerWorks has recently reported that core funding from Heritage Canada has been pulled at the last minute. Given the ire the festival drew from the government over last year’s play about terrorism in Canada, those of us working in the arts are feeling a sudden chill in the collective national room. […]
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Homeland Security Tests Mind Reading Sensors
According to the magazine Nature, the US Department of Homeland Security is conducting field trials of sensors they hope will be able to spot people thinking about committing terrorist acts. That’s right, just by looking at people, this hardware …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Germany says auf weidersehen to nuke plants
Germany’s centre-right coalition announced this morning that it is getting out of the nuclear power business entirely. All seventeen of its plants will be closed by 2022 at the latest. This has been a long held plank of the “Red-Green” alliance …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Mladić arrested
The bid of Serbia to join the European Union, perhaps as early as 2014, may finally be on track with today’s news that Ratko Mladić has been arrested — in Serbia. It’s taken far too long, 16 years, but maybe at long last the healing the Balkan re…
Continue readingArt Threat: Help make this documentary! – Friday Film Pick: The Secret Trial 5
A new crowdfunded documentary looks at Canada’s security certificates and asks you to get involved.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Vote 2011, and "that guy"
It’s all over but the voting and please make sure you do vote today. Remember it’s “ass-a-hole-as” like Osama Bin Laden who believe that democracy is a sin against God. More on him in just a second … but here’s my prediction for tonight (reme…
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Two items in the news recently underlined the old difficulty of agreeing on who is a terrorist.
Last week a court in The Hague found Ante Gotovina, a Croatian commander in the 1990s war against the Serbs, guilty of waging a campaign of terror, bombing…
Continue readingArt Threat: Monday Music: Duet for Abdelrazik – MP3 features cellist Rebecca Foon and Stefan Christoff on piano
We invite you to download this exclusive duet performance featuring celebrated cellist Rebecca Foon and pianist, community activist and Art Threat contributor Stefan Christoff.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Harper shuts students out
I’ve been away from this space for a while but I feel I have to speak up about the news that some people were kicked out of Conservative events on the Harper tour because organizers recognized those persons as having been photographed with Michael Igna…
Continue readingpunditman: Musings on Western Hypocrisy
punditman says… Punditman has been busy these past few days, with, among other things, attending to some urgent family matters. Meanwhile, I am happy to see Peacenik has kept the site up-to-date. Let’s hear it for Peacenik. Punditman does not have much time to comment on the state of the
Continue readingpunditman: Musings on Western Hypocrisy
punditman says… Punditman has been busy these past few days, with, among other things, attending to some urgent family matters. Meanwhile, I am happy to see Peacenik has kept the site up-to-date. Let’s hear it for Peacenik. Punditman does not have much time to comment on the state of the
Continue readingpunditman: Musings on Western Hypocrisy
Ditto for Israel’s shameful reaction, best summed up by Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz:
We (Israelis are) all suffering from Orientalism, not to say racism, if the sight of an entire people throwing off the yoke of tyranny and courageously demanding free elections fills us with fear rather than uplifting us, just because they’re Arabs.
The Wheatsheaf: The mens rea of pie
Like an actor misquoting Shakespeare, Liberal MP Gerry Byrne stumbles through a legislative interpretative dance. In an interview with radio station VOCM in St. John’s on Tuesday, Mr. Byrne said he thinks what happened should be reviewed under the legal definition of terrorism. “When someone actually coaches or conducts criminal
Continue readingbastard.logic: Why Does Rep. Pete Hoekstra Hate America?
by matttbastard Shorter Pete Hoekstra: “It’s totally Obama’s fault that unsuccessful terror attack was indeed unsuccessful”: Shame, that. Maybe one day Hoekstra’s vibrant wet dream of death and destruction will actually come true. And then Darth Cheney (who already co-owns a successful terror … Continue reading →
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Meir Weinstein of JDL nailed by CBC Radio News World at Six
CBC Radio News has a report this evening on Meir Weinstein and the Jewish Defence League. Where other media outlets have failed to dig further into Weinstein’s past or that of the JDL the CBC managed to put Weinstein on the spot. Weinstein tries to wiggle away with some rather
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