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Bush administration and dissent
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Bush administration and dissent

This piece published in December 2003 was forwarded to us recently with the comment: This is one of the most chilling ar ...

Predatory states & democratic recession
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Predatory states & democratic recession

The Democratic Rollback Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 Summary ...

Wednesday Night #1359
March 19, 2008, 1 Comment

We had promised that Beryl would be with us last week to talk about the new publication, The MetropolitaIn, that he will ...

Canada: government & governance
February 23, 2008, Comments Off on Canada: government & governance

February 24, 2008 These findings bear out what we have been hearing, particularly about the demoralization in Environmen ...

Climate Change Threatens Human Rights Of Millions – UN
February 19, 2008, Comments Off on Climate Change Threatens Human Rights Of Millions – UN

February 20, 2008 (Planet Ark) GENEVA – Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at ...

The 2009 Bush e-Budget
February 4, 2008, Comments Off on The 2009 Bush e-Budget

Feb 7th 2008 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition George Bush’s fiscal plan will set off an epic figh ...

Barack Obama: My America
February 4, 2008, Comments Off on Barack Obama: My America

First, he captivated the world. Now a young senator from Illinois has a fighting chance of becoming the first black pres ...

Bill Clinton, Canadian mining financier in Kazakhstan
January 31, 2008, Comments Off on Bill Clinton, Canadian mining financier in Kazakhstan

This does not bode well for transparency under a Clinton II White House. We are curious whether there may be a Georgetow ...

2008 Canadian Constitutional Affairs Conference
January 30, 2008, 1 Comment

The 2008 Canadian Constitutional Affairs Conference – organized by a group of students from the Laval and McGill Facul ...

State of the Union 2008
January 28, 2008, Comments Off on State of the Union 2008

January 31 (The Economist) The disappearing president and the shape of politics to come George Bush gave his last state- ...