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January 28, 2008
Davos Diary: The schmooze of the world
Extreme brainpower meets extraordinary wealth at the annual World Economic Forum. Sean O’Grady reports from the plutocrats’ playground. Having followed much of the serious Davos coverage over the past days, we can recommend this somewhat light-hearted look at the events from The Independent
January 26, 2008
Japanese PM […]

January 25, 2008
Afghanistan needs us
Without the presence of international troops, chaos would erupt
JOHN MANLEY
Saturday, January 26, 2008
The opening lines of my independent panel’s report make it clear that Afghanistan is at war and that Canada is a combatant. That’s the situation today, but a close reading of our work says it doesn’t have to be […]

DHS Defies Congress By Going Forward Now
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
January 22, 2008
Defying Congress, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing to tighten identification requirements at U.S. land borders starting Jan. 31, when it no longer will allow Americans or Canadians to enter the country by presenting a driver’s license or declaring their […]

We are honoured that Robert Galbraith has permitted us to reproduce his eloquent and moving conclusions on his tour in Afghanistan.
EIGHT WEEKS IN NOVEMBER
Let Us Not Forget What It Means To Be Canadian
Special to The suburban by Robert J. Galbraith
Sometimes I feel that there will always be war. As long as there […]

21 November 2007
Six years ago coalition forces headed into Afghanistan to eradicate the Taliban. Now an international think tank says more than half of the country is under the Taliban’s thumb. Meanwhile, an Oxfam report sharply criticized US-led development efforts in the region.
In war-torn Afghanistan, the Taliban is gaining ground again as it continues its […]

Exclusive to The Suburban
To use Robert Galbraith’s words, this was “extreme journalism”. Robert and his colleague Guido Schmidt are in Spin Bolduk, a dangerous Afghan crossing on the Pakistani border. Osama Bin-Laden had been seen here at the start of the conflict. Robert Galbraith has gone further, faster and deeper than any independent journalist in […]

Thought you might appreciate this if you haven’t already seen it–the
RFE-Radio Liberty website, currently engaged in countering jihadist
propaganda, is full of interesting information that provides a new look at
the forces unleashed by the fall of Saddam (as well as the history of the
region etc.)
Specifically, attached, is their recent report on the propaganda within Iraq […]

Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting) 10 July 2007
By Peter Zeihan
With all the talk about al Qaeda “leaders,” al Qaeda “factions” and militants with “links” to al Qaeda, it is useful to take a step back and clarify precisely what al Qaeda actually is. Al Qaeda is a small core group of people who share strategic and […]

4 July 2007
The Invitation
We hope we have not exhausted all the verbal fireworks during last week’s “lively” discussion , which will surely be reviewed and reprised many times. Andrea was a great guest and participation from Right to Left was enthusiastic.
After that demanding exercise in public policy, we turn to a more eclectic collection […]

May 23, 2008
America needs to lean much harder on Afghanistan’s President Karzai
IN CONVENTIONAL wisdom it is the “good war” that was neglected to wage the bad one in Iraq. Afghanistan’s Taliban regime had provided al-Qaeda with a haven and refused after the attacks of September 11th to give its leaders up. When America invaded there […]