Javed Akbar
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Rt. Honourable Justin Trudeau
October 17, 2021
The symbolism of Christmas is universal: "Tidings of great joy."
Eleven years after Canada granted honorary citizenship to Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the House of Commons voted unanimously to revoke it on September 17, 2018 declaring the treatment of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar (Burma) government to be genocide.
Coronavirus continues to spread with lethal speed.
Elections in the recent past have failed to garner much excitement among the general public, particularly the young voters. But there is much at stake at the coming elections. The Harper government's domestic to foreign policies read like the Bush Doctrine.
"By now it has been demonstrated that neither governments nor the UN will challenge this blockade, only people of conscience and courage will." - Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University.
As Gaza's children are pulled lifeless from the rubble, the world watches in muted horror. Yet, perhaps the most piercing silence comes from the Muslim ummah itself-a collective of 1.8 billion people bound by a faith rooted in justice and compassion, now reduced to spectators of its own moral collapse.
Writers have always believed in the transformative power of words to make sense of the senseless, to bring light to darkness, and to speak truth to power. Yet, at this moment, my words are drowned by the thunderous roar of genocide, an unprecedented barbarism.
November 20, 2018
Dimitri Lascaris just returned to Greece from an 11-day journey across Iran in a time of war. While walking the streets of a coastal town in Crete, Dimitri discusses what he learned in Iran, where he thinks the war is heading, and why he came to Crete to continue his coverage of the war.