While Stephen Harper’s trip to Israel is receiving wide domestic media coverage, coverage that I have been studiously avoiding out of deference to my at-times delicate sensibilities and constitution, the following Harper encomium strikes me as both chillingly ironic and hypocritical: Israel is the only country in the Middle East
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Politics and its Discontents: I Am Nobody
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Political Activism that Bears Fruit
Probably one of the biggest challenges politically aware and active people face is the fear that even after giving it their best, little, if anything, will change. The powers that be seem deaf to reason, the bureacractic wall seems imenetrable, and the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel
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