Haroon's devlog

This morning saw the biggest leak of classified military files since the Pentagon Papers. In The New York Times , The Guardian and Der Spi...

Canadians have a self-image of themselves as well-meaning, liberal, polite and open. Canada as a nation is often seen in much the same way....

Earlier this week US President Barack Obama announced, after a long and often heated debate within the US administration, that an additional...

As a followup to my weblog entry of 27 October, it is worth highlighting the fact that Lietunant-Commander Bill Kuebler, who is part of Omar...

On 5 December 2008 a grisly milestone was passed in Canada's war in southern Afghanistan: the 100th solider to be killed died as a conse...

According to polling done for the CBC just before Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked the Governor-General to issue the writ to dissolve Par...

This weblog has been very quiet, for several months. The pressures of work have not allowed me to follow up several issues on which I have ...

The head of NATO this week announced that in an effort to shore up the faltering mission in Afghanistan NATO would reduce the size of the bo...

I am about to head off for the annual meetings of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), where an impo...

After a week of taking a pounding in the press, Canada's Conservative government has yesterday concluded a new deal with the Afghan gove...

On the television, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is speaking of the glory of the battle of Vimy Ridge, on the day when, 90 years ag...