Joanna Palani, a 23 year old fighter of the YPJ, the famous Kurd “Women’s protection unit”, is currently detained in Denmark, presumably for terrorism. The […]
Tag: Isis
Over 100 Civilians Killed in Recent Anti-ISIS Airstrikes in Syria
The Syrian official opposition is calling for suspension of the International Anti-ISIS Coalition airstrikes after one of them killed at least 56 civilians on Tuesday, northeast […]
Leurs Guerres, Nos Morts: Paris, Beirut, Syria and Beyond
In this past week Beirut, Bagdad, Paris and most of Syria were the epicentres of yet another gruesome chapter of the war on terror. The […]
Five Justin Trudeau Promises That Could Change the Country and Potentially the World
* This article originally appeared on QuietMike.org and is republished with permission from the author While the rest of the world debates how handsome Canada’s […]
This is what democracy looks like: UQAM and the War on Democracy
About this time last week came the first reports that Harper – after ramming the extension of the mission through Parliament – had ordered the first […]
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 […]
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 […]