Perspectives

Elizabeth McWeeny, President of the Canadian Council for Refugees said, “We are deeply disappointed that the Court condones the Canadian government disregarding US practices that place refugee lives in danger.” She added, “This judgment fails to give life to the promise of protection in the Charter and in international human rights agreements which Canada has signed.”

"Nor is it an accident that Qatar and Turkey--the one an immensely wealthy tribal emirate that can buy its way to successful mediation, the other a non-Arab regional power--have been the most successful facilitators and mediators recently rather than Egypt, Saudi Arabia or the Arab League. Incidentally, even Doha and Ankara's efforts have succeeded to no small extent because the global superpower, the United States with its huge diplomatic and military investment in the region, has receded to lame-duck status until 2009."

"As long as Arab regimes are not subject to democratic elections and consequently public accountability, continued fragmentation and radicalization will undermine any serious ambitions for systematic mediation serving Arab interests and wielding Arab legitimacy."

Conspiracy is as American as apple pie. Every day in America, in state and federal courts, some defendant faces charges of conspiracy. I submit that since 1891, a conspiracy has existed, forged by British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, and others, to reduce America to a vassal state of the New World Order. It is beyond cavil that the policies of Dubya (George W. Bush) have been an absolute disaster for America. Could Dubya be working for the NWO?

"...the only viable option is for the foreign occupation troops to leave and let the Afghans make their own grand reconciliation, something they have done many times before. The people of Afghanistan have suffered enough and the foreign do-gooders can do them one last favour by leaving them alone."

"If I were a Jew living anywhere around the world and had no ties to the area and had never set foot there, I would have the right to go any time I wanted and get an Israeli passport. In fact, the Israelis encourage that. I, however, am not Jewish but I was born and raised in Jerusalem, my parents, family and friends still live there and I cannot go back! I am neither a criminal nor a threat to one of the most powerful countries in the world, yet I am alienated and expelled from my own home."

"....Mike Whitney explains in a damning article titled “Bush’s Blood-Orgy in Somalia”, the real motives behind the invasion were oil and geopolitics. “Bush’s new war-lord friends in the Transitional Federal Government [TFG] have already indicated a willingness to pass a new oil law that will encourage foreign oil companies to return to Somalia.”

"The failed state of Pakistan sticks out like a sore thumb in the Kashmir saga. Despite being a nuclear power, Pakistan remains weak, divided and overrun by feudal lords. The romanticism associated with its founding during the era of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has dwindled. So too has the expectation that Muslims, particularly the exploited and vulnerable will be accorded dignity."