By ELDER GERORGE The media reported the following news in a 48-hour period this past week concerning health, government, and natural disasters: 1.A medical report indicated that the health of American women deteriorated on several fronts due to alcoholism, smoking, obesity, and stress. 2.France determined that 50% of its population is either overweight or obese. [...]
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Waleed Abdalati the agency's chief scientist, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science programs, strategic planning and the evaluation of related investments. Abdalati is currently the director of the Earth Science and Observation Center at the University of Colorado [...]
MAHER ARAR LET me state at the outset that governments indeed have legitimate reasons to keep some information confidential and out of public reach. But this should be the exception rather than the norm. Unfortunately, since 9/11 Western governments have become more secretive and less transparent, especially when it comes to foreign policy and national [...]
RAMZY BAROUD WHEN a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, featuring the work of over 30 accomplished writers, is the most articulate treatise on the collective victimization of Palestinians to date. From Cook’s own introduction, ‘The Untold [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA DESPITE our estranged relations with USA from 1990 till 2001, our leaders continued to vie for US friendship. The two PPP tenures in the 1990s in particular struck secret arrangements with Washington to attain power. However, the US influence was kept within permissible limits and none could dare openly espouse the cause [...]
Stephen Lendman writes: PUBLICLY his comments were upbeat. Privately, he was frustrated by a corrupt, inept Karzai regime, many US officials, and a conflict no combination of strategy and resources can turn around and win. Before receiving sedation for surgery, family members reportedly said his last words to his surgeon were, “You’ve got to stop [...]
ON Monday, December 13 the Canadian Islamic Congress appeared on Parliament Hill as an invited witness at a Parliamentary hearing on Bill C-17 before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. CIC legal counsel James Kafieh delivered the organization’s submission to the Committee, highlighting Canadian Muslims’ concerns over C-17, as well as presenting [...]
JAY KNOTT CANADA is mostly a diluted version of the USA. But Canadians are justly proud of their country’s resistance to the abrasive style of American politics. In one respect, though, it is more extreme than the United States – it is the only country with a more fanatical Israel Lobby. When the University of [...]
