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Sho-sho :  What do you know about Anfal? Ne-nah :  What language is that? Sho-sho :  Arabic, I presume. Ne-nah :  Al-Anfal  is the title...

In the summer of 1998, as a teen, I got my first paying job working at a community centre. I had no education or any work or life...

In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling .  I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent...

I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC. Exploring these themes further, I just...

The long trek was made longer by deep snow and an icy breeze. After eight hours they’d made it to the agreed location. Before making the...

I’ve been shocked by the response to Israel’s declaration of war and actions in Gaza. Of course, I’m not talking about the masses making...

I almost fell over reading this story in the news this morning: Indonesia enlists help of experts for ICJ Israel case. The Foreign...

These tweets are from the accounts of directors of Middle Eastern studies, investigative journalists, media companies, Palestinian...

FADE IN: 1 EXT. BUSY DOWNTOWN STREET - LATE AFTERNOON Walking down a crowded sidewalk on a busy street full of shops and cafes. A man...

Between 1892 and 1954 around 12 million people immigrated to the US via the immigration station at Ellis Island, New York. And any scan...

A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...

Though Malayuka Arnutskyah scored high on all her examinations, that could not help her overcome the quotas. Even though she was raised...

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...

NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...

[ The internet, 2023: Some random idiot is confronted by a human rights lawyer on social media ] “It’s not a game. I’m calling you out.”...

The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...

“Why does everyone talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict as being difficult?” “Probably because it’s, I dunno, difficult?” “Is it,...

“Well, I mean, the Kurds have never been offered statehood, despite treaties promising such.” “Okay, but that’s the whole world.” “What...

"Can I ask what you're doing here today?" "We're just out supporting the cause." "But I believe that's the flag of Hamas. And the chant...

Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...

Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf  necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it...

How do you make sense of what’s happening? What I’m seeing are officials, news reporters, and protesters alike quick to demand folks draw...

You will be delighted to learn I received much push-back on my last submission. Aside from some interesting comments, I was sent several...