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Trump off the Political Spectrum

As published in the Victoria Standard: November 22, 2016

Haitian Intervention Fatigue

Originally published in The Leveller: November 23, 2016.
Modified version republished in the Victoria Standard: January 16, 2017. (The Threat of Competent Leadership)

Royal Visit 2016-Junior Team Tours the West Coast

As published in the Victoria Standard: October 11, 2016.

The September 2016 royal tour of British Columbia may temporarily boost Canadian monarchism but a recent Forum poll indicates that support for the house of Windsor is waning. Increasingly, public veneration of royal personalities resembles celebrity wordship; not unlike that bestowed upon movie stars and reality show presidential candidates.

Remembering to Forget - November Eleventh’s Collective Amnesia

As published in the Victoria Standard: November 8, 2016.

Haitian disaster assistance: aid or long-overdue debt?

As published in The Hill Times: Oct 19, 2016

Every time Haiti suffers a natural disaster the mainstream media reflexively laments the political corruption blocking Western aid to the island’s sick and injured. Unfortunately, dominant commentary on Haiti, a former “slave republic”, lacks depth and historical context.

Questioning Shimon Peres’ Legacy

Like many older Israelis, Shimon Peres was a Polish national who immigrated to the new Jewish colony underway in Palestine. While European anti-Semitism was a major factor in the mass Jewish exit from Poland; the Zionist enterprise was active long before Hitler’s birth and the eventual rise of Nazism.

Highland Scots Experience Parallels Palestinian Case

As published in the Victoria Standard: September 13, 2016

Barrigar’s Middle East Dualism Devoid of Nuance

As published in Unpublished Ottawa: August 26, 2016.

http://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/90677/barrigar%E2%80%99s-middle-east...

Trump Infuriates U.S. Israeli Lobby

As published in the Victoria Standard: August 6, 2016.

In spite of his divisive rhetoric on U.S. domestic issues; Donald Trump’s public statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are surprisingly sensible. Reasonable enough, in fact; to infuriate the Israeli lobby and its neoconservative agents in the Republican Party who adhere to a policy of Israeli exceptionalism.

Reality of U.S. Record on Cuba

As published in Adbusters: Issue 126-Volume 24-Number 4: July/August 2016 and the Victoria Standard: April 11, 2016.