epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

In Ottawa, meanwhile, the opposition Liberals were doing everything in their power to confound the government’s efforts to keep a lid on Canada’s role in the hostage crisis. Day after ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Rex Murphy [Murphy, Rex]

A JOINT IS A SMOKE | Novemeber 27, 2004 Social pressure accounts for the decline of smoking. It is surely not the risible Health Canada public-service messages, or the extravagantly ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Graeme Smith [Smith, Graeme]

I drifted out of touch with detainee issues in Kandahar after finishing my assignment in the Afghanistan in early 2009, although I heard from human rights investigators that they remained ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Michael Petrou

Amir called me on my hotel’s lobby telephone. I had returned to Tehran as he had instructed. “Check your email.” I opened my inbox to find a detailed message from ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-22 | Author:Thomas P. Keenan

New York City was a pioneer in the Open Data arena. In October 2009, with considerable fanfare, they released a number of municipal data sets. The next day, they had ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:A Matter of Principle

[CHAPTER TEN] THE FACT THAT DAVID RADLER’S counsel had withdrawn from the joint defence group indicated that Anton Valukas, his lawyer, thought he could really do something with Radler in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Michael Ignatieff

In September 2008, after two and a half years in power, Mr. Harper decided that his attack ads against our leader had softened up the electoral terrain sufficiently to allow ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Alison Loat [Loat, Alison]

DESPITE THESE OCCASIONALLY positive sentiments, the former MPs expressed great antipathy for partisan melodramatics and were deeply concerned at how the public perceives politicians in Canada. “Citizens … have the ...

mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Amy Goodman

April 27, 2011 Capital Punishment: One of America’s Worst Crimes The death penalty case of Mumia Abu-Jamal took a surprising turn this week, as a federal appeals court declared, for ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-23 | Author:Greg Robinson

ANGLER CAMP The “troublemakers” among Japanese Canadians were interned by the government in Angler, Ontario (some were held first at Petawawa). The origins of these 750-odd Issei and Nisei men, ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:James Loney [Loney, James]

JANUARY 20 DAY 56 The voices—loud, excited, running into each other—move to the bottom of the stairway. It sounds like a party. The voices subside. Footsteps in the foyer. Junior ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:The Innocent Man [Man, The Innocent]

The Innocent Man C H A P T E R 9 Annette Hudson had closely followed the Fritz trial by reading the daily reports in the Ada Evening News. On ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio J. Mendez & Matt Baglio [Mendez, Antonio J. & Baglio, Matt]

9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Chomsky, Noam & Pappe, Ilan [Chomsky, Noam]

But the gains in security for Israeli towns near Gaza were evidently outweighed by the felt need to deter diplomatic moves that might impede West Bank expansion, and to crush ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...