140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 26, 2014: Egyptian lawyers boycott new mass trial of almost 700 suspected Islamists – Toronto Star…
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Stephen Harper and the Con Day of Infamy
It couldn't have been a more welcome sight. The last Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan. If I had been watching them coming in to land, I would have been waving…
Predictable
In the department of “no big surprise here”, we have The Taliban mocking the departure of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban’s information arm issued a statement Thursday to followers…
How the Conservative Government Dishonours the Military
So Canada is leaving its occupation of Afghanistan. I never liked the mission. I never liked the context. I never liked the propaganda. I never liked the transformation of some…
March 12, 2014 was the day that the Canadian government…
March 12, 2014 was the day that the Canadian government officially ended its 12-year occupation of Afghanistan. What a pointless waste of lives, money and resources for a so-called “mission”…
Brits Throw In the Towel in Helmand
Like Canada, Britain maintained a military contingent in Afghanistan for more than a decade. Like Canada, the Brits set lofty goals of their Afghan War. Like Canada, the Brits are…
Obama, Time to Wash Your Hands of Afghanistan
If the United States cannot come up with one scenario in which it would return American troops to Afghanistan in large numbers, it should fold its tent and leave by…
Advice to Canadian politicians and media: Proceed with caution on your support for Ukraine’s rebels
Anti-Government Ukrainians prepare to fight police in Kiev. Below: Rioters throw gasoline bombs at police in Ukraine; Alberta Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. (Wikimedia photos.) You can bet money that when…
Cancelled: Alison Redford’s expensive Afghanistan photo-op
TweetAlbertans discovered this week that Premier Alison Redford cancelled a secretly planned trip to war-torn Afghanistan after suicide bomber blew herself up in a Kabul restaurant , killing twenty-one people,…
Afghanistan—the mother of all unpopular wars
There are unpopular wars, and then there are really, really unpopular wars. The Afghan war falls overwhelmingly into the latter category. According to a CNN/ORC International survey released this week,…
Afghanistan Returns to the Stone Age
If there’s still anyone willing to claim that what we did in Afghanistan was worth even one Canadian life, mention this. Afghanistan is on the brink of reinstating public death…
Is Omar Khadr a pawn in a cynical political game by the Harper Government?
The scene a week ago in the chapel at the King’s University College in Edmonton during a forum on the fate of Omar Khadr. Below: Canadian lawyer Dennis Edney, U.S.…
Waltzing Matilda-Lest We Forget
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It seems that we see and hear music and films of the first and second world wars such as this moving testimony. Not so much anymore. Prime…
NATO’s Afghan Mission Reduced to Bean-Counting
NATO is going to keep thousands of personnel in Afghanistan post-2014 but the only fighting they’ll do will be to try to keep their Afghan counterparts from pilfering the ongoing…
Has America Outstayed Its Welcome in Afghanistan Also?
Washington, and especially the Pentagon, had big plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq until the Iraqis said “no.” Then they packed up their tanks and left. Now a…
The deeper reasons for the “war on drugs”
There is a deeper reason for the war on drugs, which is the central reason for the policy, even outweighing profits from private prisons and seizure of property by law…
Pakistan: Attack on Christians
George W. Bush spread ‘democracy’ in Afghanistan. Now Obama is spreading ‘democracy’ in Afghanistan. Some of that ‘democracy’ has spilled over into Pakistan. Violence has become norm in Afghanistan and…
Kate, Robin and Stewart’s Challenge To Us All About PTSD
I will be doing regular updates on two events to increase awareness about PTSD, particularly as the Canadian Forces spends too little on treatment of its members and PTSD. Regardless…
While We’re Focused on Chemical Warfare
It’s interesting how selective the United States can be about weapons of mass destruction given that the U.S. continues to be responsible for widespread death and destruction from its own…