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Al-Jazeera's Yousri Fouda speaks with Democracy Now! about the reported threat by Dubya to bomb al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar. Some background: Al-Jazeera bureaus were hit by U.S. warplanes in Kabul, Afghanistan in November 2001 and in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 2003. Here's the Nov. 22 BBC story about the case. Here is part of [...]
Wed, November 23 2005 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
This BBC story wonders what the U.S. has to show for its four-year-old occupation of Afghanistan — one that Canadian troops are involved in. Some excerpts: With no end in sight to the insurgency led by remnants of that regime and insecurity still holding back development in large parts of the country, it is a question [...]
Wed, November 23 2005 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
Some people earn their Geminis. Others find them lying on a patch of dead grass beside the sidewalk as they're going to work. I am one of the latter. It was very much an odd sight to see one of the most coveted symbols of achievement in Canadian television abandoned like that, the late fall [...]