Chris Hedges writes on truth-out.org, on Monday 30 January 2012: What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment.
But that was the old Canada.
I was in Montreal on Friday and Saturday and saw the familiar and disturbing tentacles of the security and surveillance state.
The Express Tribune is a new English-language newspaper and it has been engaged in some strange journalism lately. We present some false stories from the paper. It has been accused of being an agent of anti-Pakistani forces and it has denied it. It has been accused of manufacturing stories embarrassing Pakistan, Muslims and Islam. We will present proof of such a story.
Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
Marine Le Pen had invited about 100 diplomats to a luncheon earlier this month during a visit to UN Headquarters in New York. But only four accepted: the envoys from Trinidad-Tobago, Armenia and Uruguay — who obviously are of no concern to her at all — and the fourth guest, Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor.
Thanks to the good work by our team, the All-Parliamentary Ahmadiyya Group in the United Kingdom has lost the support of most members of the House of Commons who participated in the first meeting, the mainstream media, all the Muslim intellectuals that attended the previous meeting, and have been forced to switch gears to 'international' extremism.
The first meeting, which we reported on:
was called by the Honourable Siobhain McDonagh, the precursor to this PG (in 2010) was meant to discuss the Lahore attacks, but was used to bounce half-baked local media stories off the walls of Parliament and then into full-fledged stories in the mainstream media.
To be sure, “Doonesbury” is a satirical cartoon, but the remarks are serious enough that we cannot publish the strip without more information, context and a response from Palin.
Anyone remember the Danish cartoon story? And how free speech was supreme at that time. Doonesbury is political satire. Sarah Palin is a politician. The writer of the strip is a guy named Trudeau, who has been doing this for ages - and he received an advance copy of the book. He is not lying.
Gerald Caplan of The Globe and Mail, Canada, has written a questioning piece on why mainstream media spends so much valuable time and resources in promoting Islamophobia.
Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have help
History has a curious habit of coming full-circle. The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown Christian Terrorism.
Our hearts go out to the murdered children's families and other victims of the terrorist atrocities in Norway. The serene island of Utøya is now a living memorial to this horrible crime. As the unreal events unfolded, and pundits linked it to all types of events in the Islamic world, Muslims in the West prayed, 'Oh God, let it not be another Muslim.' It was not -- and it is at this point that the media, intellectuals and politicians have to sit back and take stock and ponder over the nature of terrorism. Simply describing other human beings as inherently bad and incapable of expressing themselves can backfire, and backfire quite badly. This time, it is not only the rise of Nazism in Germany, it is the rise of Nazism in the whole of the Western world, and as before, humanity cannot live with it. It has to be challenged.
Let us compare what we know about the alleged perpetrator and the myth of 'Islamic terrorism':
The moral outrage is as thick as Devon cream. But this story is about much more than corrupt police and a media culture run amok. It’s about power, hypocrisy and revenge. It’s about opportunism and political calculation. And most of all, it’s about payback. In Britain, Rupert Murdoch is widely reviled as an evil genius who’s been clobbering the competition and terrorizing the political class for decades. And now, he’s getting his comeuppance.
In addition to all this, News Corp, its newspapers and TV stations (including Sun and Fox) and Rupert Murdoch himself, were the biggest tarnishers of Muslim identity in the world. While the Islamophobia in the Western media will not be significantly reduced by these events, it is heartening to see that lies and hypocrisy are based on negative forces that eventually, and automatically, dismantle their purveyors.
The Express Tribune is a new English-language newspaper and it has been engaged in some strange journalism lately. We present some false stories from the paper. It has been accused of being an agent of anti-Pakistani forces and it has denied it. It has been accused of manufacturing stories embarrassing Pakistan, Muslims and Islam. We will present proof of such a story.
Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
Thanks to the good work by our team, the All-Parliamentary Ahmadiyya Group in the United Kingdom has lost the support of most members of the House of Commons who participated in the first meeting, the mainstream media, all the Muslim intellectuals that attended the previous meeting, and have been forced to switch gears to 'international' extremism.
So, the Chicago Tribune censors the political cartoon strip Doonesbury.
Gerald Caplan of The Globe and Mail, Canada, has written a questioning piece on why mainstream media spends so much valuable time and resources in promoting Islamophobia.
Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have help
QeRN Muslim Identity will be representing the Muslim viewpoint on the Aljazeera programme 'The Stream' today at 3:30 PM EST.
The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown 
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