Wednesday April 4, 2012. Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece is bustling at its habitual frantic pace. A 77 year old man stands solemnly in front […]
Author: Niall Clapham Ricardo
Creating the Other: Canada’s problem with homegrown terrorism
Today, the shocking events that happened at the National War Memorial on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa terrified the nation. Like an electric current, the tension, the fear, […]
Harper government joins war on terror
Yesterday, the Conservative government put their ‘money’ where their words were, and officially joined the new coalition of the willing. As I write Canadian fighter jets […]
Kobane is the Kurdish Thermopylae: We are all Kurds now
As I’m writing these words this morning, the situation is becoming direr for the Kurdish resistance in Kobane. So far, the resistance has bravely faced the 22 days […]
The gates of hell have opened: The hypocrisy of humanitarian intervention
We’re in the thick of it, there’s nothing else to say. All the international credibility gained out of Canada’s decision not to intervene in the […]
Ideology is dead, long live ideology!
A specter is haunting democracies throughout the world. A barely visible cloud, an entangling nebula is settling in throughout large swaths of modern political rhetoric. Many […]
Orientalism, Kurds and the never-ending war
In my latest article about Stephen Harper’s grand folly of wanting another military intervention in Iraq, I painted a very bleak picture, criticizing the third Western […]
Humpty dumpty goes to war: Harper wants intervention in Iraq
So, here we go again. Thirteen years after the tragedy at the World Trade Center on September 11, and eleven years after the beginning of the Second Gulf War, a […]
The antidote: In defense of Jewish internationalism
It is an understatement to say that, during this past summer, tensions have been high. The Israeli carpet-bombing of Gaza exacerbated tensions all around the world. The […]
Harper’s Family Values: Silence, violence and social conservatism
This past week sounded the end of the political summer recess, but this week was not only the end of the summer vacations and the […]