The Forgotten Gulag
In the introduction to Anne Applebaum’s Pulitzer-prize-winning book, Gulag: A History, she ponders why the “crimes of Stalin do not inspire the same visceral reaction to the crimes of Hitler.”…
international politics
The Dilemma of Sochi
A friend on Facebook posts an interesting question/quandary about what they feel regarding the Sochi Olympics: With a month to #Sochi I feel very torn about it. I love the…
Thank you, Nelson Mandela
I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about the passing of Nelson Mandela, who passed away last Thursday and whose memorial service is being held now as I type…
What our Conservative government would do here on abortion..
(..if they could get away with it): International Development Minister Christian Paradis says the government will not fund overseas projects that allow war rape victims and child brides to obtain…
Helping Kids In Kenya – Stahili Foundation
A slightly different post from me on this long weekend. I want to highlight an organization that a good friend of mine has co-founded to help children in Kenya. My…
Leaning Towards Supporting A Winter Olympics Sochi Boycott
I’ve been on the fence over whether or not a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is the right thing to be doing to protest Russia’s new rather…
Congrats to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
…better known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, on their new arrival (still unnamed, they let it be known in their brief chat with the press they hadn’t decided on…
Not exactly the spotlight we want in Canada
Canada sure has been in the news a lot of late. Unfortunately, it’s about the wrong reasons. The Senate expenses scandal and the subsequent resignation of Nigel Wright made the…
Dumb move on Harper’s part: manages to equate JT and President Obama together as wimps on terror
I don’t normally blog this late, or on a Friday night.. but I couldn’t pass this up. Tonight, the police managed to capture the 2nd suspect in the Boston Marathon…
Should the religious left be as active as the religious right has been?
I wondered about that question as I read Ric Salutin’s op-ed on the United Church resolution to encourage their members not to buy goods produced from Israeli settlements in the…
No shock here on the Conservative foot-dragging on Omar Khadr
A column in the Star today about how the Canadian government has been doing nothing to live up to its agreement it made with the US and Omar Khadr’s lawyers…
More foreign policy antagonism
You might have caught this story last week: For a moment at least, it was a United Nations-basher’s dream come true. The UN had once again hugely discredited itself, this…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-18 22:54:00
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING: The news tonight is that the North Korean dictator Kim Jong–Il has gone to join his unlamented father in apotheosis.…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-12 21:57:00
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: 2011: A YEAR OF REVOLUTION: 2011 was a remarkable year. As revolutions sparked throughout the Arab world the “lower” classes of many other countries also rose up as…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-06 23:58:00
PERSONAL: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART FIVE: One thing I am certain of about the Occupy Movement (much more certain than how it will all end up)…
Molly’sBlog 2011-11-30 21:38:00
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: DEMOCRACY VERSUS THE BANKERS: The following item on the international finamcial crisis is from the Anarkismo website. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Europe & the BankersThe limits of democracy in Project Europe When…
Climate change sceptic sponsored study group: Global warming is real.
This is very amusing: The Earth’s surface really is getting warmer, a new analysis by a US scientific group set up in the wake of the “Climategate” affair has concluded.…
Political tidbits
This is stupid. If you don’t like the Mayor of Toronto, you vote against him next municipal election (or his councillors that support him). You don’t utter death threats, or…
Sunmedia’s business model – attack the CBC
A brief observation: Wherever I turn, whether it be Ezra Levant’s raving on in the Sun tabloids, or Brian Lilley on SunTv, or even David Akin on Twitter questioning CBC…
An observation on the Norway bombings/shootings
As you’ve no doubt heard, a far right extremist gunman who holds anti-immigration, anti-Muslim views decided to vent his wrath on the governing Socialist Party in Norway yesterday, blowing up…