Wednesday-Night

(NYT) At War is a reported blog from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era ; (BBC) Afghanistan country profile and Afghanistan’s turbulent history ; Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) ; International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) ; Afghanistan elections 2009 ; Afghanistan on Wednesday-Night.com
NATO commitment, […]

More on aviation and airlines and Wednesday-night.com ; Financial Times December 2008 ; IATA International Air Transport Association
Airlines must say ‘Persian Gulf’ or face Iranian airspace ban
(Guardian) Ban is latest development in dispute between Iran and other Arab states over a waterway in the Middle East
17 February
Branson holds court at McGill
Rebel billionaire decries airline alliance
(Gazette) […]

More and Better: World Summit on Food Security 16-18 November 2009
IISD Daily Reports
Feeding the Future - IPS Special Report
More than 1 billion people suffer hunger today, according to the UN. A crucial part of this complex problem is food production and distribution. Is it possible to increase food production in an environmentally and socially sustainable […]

CIA World Fact Book
U.S. Department of State Background Note
BBC Country profile
The reputed home of the Queen of Sheba, Yemen has been at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and Asia for thousands of years thanks to its position on the ancient spice routes.
Times Topics: Yemen
Yemen seeks Canadian support against al-Qaeda
Yemen’s foreign minister was in […]

Age of Terror Q&A ; The Changing Faces of Terrorism ; UN Global anti-terrorism strategy; Al Qaeda; U.S. Arms Feed Yemen’s Gun Culture

Lonely Trek to Radicalism for Terror Suspect
9 January
Undressing the Terror Threat
(WSJ) Running the numbers on the conflict with terrorists suggests that the rules of the game should change
A little intelligence and a […]

Leonard Cohen Poet-in-residence at Westmount High
With a background of the soundtrack of some of the poet’s wonderful songs, Ginette Sauvé Frankel introduced Jack Locke, poet, founder of the Foundation for Public Poetry, and  editor of “Leonard Cohen You’re Our Man - 75 poets reflect on the poetry of Leonard Cohen.  It is indicative of the […]

Text of President Obama’s speech
More on Afghanistan here and Afghanistan on Wednesday-night.com
Jeffrey Sachs: The Surrealism of the Afghan Surge
President Barack Obama risks leading the US deeper into the same kind of nightmare as Vietnam, with the same profound misconceptions and arrogance of the US military and the CIA. It just requires a glance at the […]

Pakistan: The South Waziristan Migration
Stratfor Global Security and Intelligence Report

Contrary to popular perception, the area along the Afghan-Pakistani border is fairly heavily populated. The terrain is extremely rugged, but there are millions of Pakistanis living in [Pakistan’s] FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas], and many of them are extremely conservative and hostile toward the Pakistani government. […]

The INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (ICRtoP) ; Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) ; The Will to Intervene Project(W2I)
22 September
Mobilizing the Will to Intervene
(CPAC) Senator Roméo Dallaire, former Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda and Dr. Frank Chalk, Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide […]