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Why Omar Khadr's psychology does not matter

Why Omar Khadr's psychology does not matter

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― This post is a quick update to my previous post 'Why Omar Khadr still matters' in response to a CBC article that contrasts the views of two psychologists who studied Khadr. As interesting as the article may be, everything I wrote previously about...

Tags: Islam, Geopolitics And War, Canadian Politics, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Omar Khadr

Bazie ― 47 weeks ago

Why Omar Khadr still matters

Why Omar Khadr still matters

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― A decade after a wounded Omar Khadr, a then fifteen year old Canadian citizen, decided to lob a fatal grenade in the middle of a firefight in Afghanistan, Ottawa is still dragging its feet on finally repatriating Khadr back to Canada from ...

Tags: Geopolitics And War, Canadian Politics, Human Rights, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Politics

Bazie ― 48 weeks ago

Lessons from Iran for North Korea

Lessons from Iran for North Korea

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― North Korea became the biggest international story of last week when it decided to launch a satellite into space (ostensibly a weather satellite) that ultimately broke down shortly after being launched. This episode puts into peril the nascent ...

Tags: Geopolitics And War, Sanctions, North Korea, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

Bazie ― 18 Apr, 12

How the GOP should criticize Obama on Iran

How the GOP should criticize Obama on Iran

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― Leaders of Brazil, Turkey & IranAs the Republicans continue to escalate their misguided criticism of Obama and his handling of the issue of a nuclear Iran, they desperately need a brief history lesson. I am not talking about a history lesson ...

Tags: Geopolitics And War, US Politics, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Politics

Bazie ― 6 Mar, 12

The chances of an Israeli strike on Iran

The chances of an Israeli strike on Iran

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― As a large caveat, let me first say that I think it is very hard to come up with a reasonable estimate of the chances that Israel, or the US, decided to attack Iran within, say, a year. For the casual analyst like myself, we can read the ...

Tags: Geopolitics And War, Israel, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

Bazie ― 1 Mar, 12

A domestic foreign policy: Iran, Israel, and the US

A domestic foreign policy: Iran, Israel, and the US

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― Foreign policy is ostensibly something to do with other countries. However, when politicians talk about it they are largely doing so for their own domestic interests. Discussions of foreign policy are constantly evolving in the ideas, rhetoric,...

Tags: USA, Geopolitics And War, Diplomacy, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ahmadinejad

Bazie ― 12 Feb, 12

The expanding War on Terror: their hypocrisy, and ours

The expanding War on Terror: their hypocrisy, and ours

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― It is hard to imagine how the timing could have created a more poignant juxtaposition. At the same time as the Obama administration triumphantly withdraws from Iraq, Congress is set to institute the legal codification of the largest expansion in ...

Tags: McCain/Levin Bill, Deficit, Military Spending, Geopolitics And War, Iraq, US Politics

Bazie ― 16 Dec, 11

Lessons from Uzbekistan

Lessons from Uzbekistan

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― The Central Asian states such as Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan often don't get too much attention in the west. However, the region is both important from a geostrategic perspective as well as having its tumultuous recent history providing many ...

Tags: Geopolitics And War, Foreign Aid, Human Rights Watch, Rendition, Donald Rumsfeld, Andijan Massacre

Bazie ― 15 Dec, 11

Lessons from Kyrgyzstan

Lessons from Kyrgyzstan

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― A year before the Arab Spring, Kyrgyzstan experienced a populist uprising of its own complete with violent conflict, from both the state and between ethnicities, and resulted in a change of governance. The lessons that can be drawn from the recent...

Tags: Geopolitics And War, Almazbek Atambayev, Bahrain, Donald Rumsfeld, Afghanistan, Manas Air Force Base

Bazie ― 15 Dec, 11

The myopic terrorism lens

The myopic terrorism lens

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― One of the main failures of western understanding of the Middle East and South Asia, and the subsequent failures of actions taken by the west in these regions, stems from viewing these regions through the lens of terrorism. This terrorism-centric...

Tags: Somalia, Geopolitics And War, Humanism, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Africa, Terrorism

Bazie ― 15 Dec, 11

US, Israel and Canada's response to Palestine's UNESCO membership (Updated)

US, Israel and Canada's response to Palestine's UNESCO membership (Updated)

Progressive Political Proselytizing ― When Palestine overwhelmingly got approved to be a member state in UNESCO, a long standing congressional trigger was activated which entirely defunds the US contribution to UNESCO (about a fifth of its total contributions). This comes on the back ...

Tags: United Nations, Palestine, Geopolitics And War, Canadian Politics, Israel, US Politics

Bazie ― 15 Dec, 11

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