Cathie from Canada

Ha ha! Ross is on holidays, I think, so I am taking the opportunity to note this story - Trade minister acknowledges softwood deal could be...

One of my previous posts has quite a discussion going on in Comments about Hezbollah and terrorism and Israel and the whole damn thing. Here...

John at AMERICAblog notes that Mel Gibson has been directing a mini-series about the Holocaust. He suggests some additional directorial pai...

So Israel is suspending the bombing campaign and withdrawing from a ground offensive -- but its not a cease-fire like the world has been a...

Watertiger at Firedoglake writes: If this week proved anything it was that Bush is to Middle East diplomacy what Ted Bundy was to blind dat...

Former CIA agent Ray Close describes how close the world is to widespread war in the Middle East: . . . intelligence being produced for th...

Hmmm - this is interesting: Hundreds demonstrated in Halifax on Saturday to condemn Prime Minister Stephen Harper's defence of Israel...

We take as our text a question and the full answer from today's Bush and Blair news conference : QUESTION: Mr. President, three years ag...

The Sideshow references this Gore Vidal interview : I would suggest Canada or New Zealand as a possible place to go until we are rid of our...

It's pretty clear what is going on still with the Guantanamo prosecutions . For hundreds and hundreds of the people imprisoned at Gitmo,...

From Billmon, A Blight Unto the Nations : I've felt many emotions about the Israelis before. I've admired them for their accomplishm...

How can the Democrats argue against Bush's foreign policy if they are willing to go along with his choice for UN ambassador, a man who h...

So Harper thinks it was the UN's fault our soldier was killed because he shouldn't have been in the way of Israel's bombs. Does...

Digby writes: I have said it before many times and I'll say it again: the neocons have always been wrong about everything. This is jus...

So farewell, farewell To my Nova Scotia home For it's early in the morning That I'm far, far away * I just heard the 6 am plane flyi...