New Orleans Like many I’ve read the Osama Bin Laden deathwatch and Seal 6 commando raid stories, word for word, and line by line. I’ve found it fascinatingly educational. Reading Leon Panetta, the USA CIA director’s accounts of the search for Bin Laden, I found it telling that one of the last steps before presenting …
Month: May 2011
First Past the Post – Majority Does Not Rule
Vancouver Sharing election night with my friends in Vancouver was a wild and bittersweet experience. Earlier in the day hopes had soared on speculation of a rising number of seats being won by the New Democratic Party (NDP) which for some time has been the progressive voice of Canadians and the likelihood that they might …
Canadian Farm Workers Court Setback but Workers’ Rights Advance
Vancouver The election news was hard last night, even though there was a lot of “on the one hand, and on the other hand,” because the Conservative, hard right party won a majority and a 5-year guarantee on federal political control. On the other hand, the New Democratic Party (NDP) after 50 years became the …