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I began my column last week with the words "We know all about Guantanamo". I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press…
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So the propaganda war is on. Forget Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the 15,000 Lebanese and Palestinian dead. Forget the…
"Palestine" is no more. Call it a "peace process" or a "road map"; blame it on Barack Obama’s weakness, his pathetic, childish…
It looks like a hop, skip and a jump. There’s the first electrified fence, then the dirt strip to identify footprints, then…
"They shoot Russians," the young paratrooper told me. It was cold. We had come across his unit, the Soviet 105th Airborne Division,…
Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First…
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