Iranian fundamentalists storm the American embassy in 1979 America has been letting Iran off the hook since 1979 and the Iran hostage crisis. Iranian students emboldened by the successful  return of Ayatollah Khomeini who had been in  exile in France and whose group consisted of Islamic fundamentalists ousted American ally The Shah. The result was the students storming the American embassy and talking over 50 American hostage for 444 days. The Carter Administration waffled and misplayed the situation from the outset. The Carter Administration was weak and this would lead to the e ..read more

                                                          President - Elect Lai Ching-te “In the global election year of 2024, in this most anticipated first election, Taiwan has scored the first victory for democracy, ” Lai said in his victory speech, referring to the roughly four dozen national elections scheduled to be held around the globe this year." Taiwan's DPP has ..read more

This chart demonstrates the ongoing elements of apartheid that have been occurring inside Tibet for over 60 years. Chinese authorities are transforming Tibetan society into another Chinese province. Dr. Gyal Lo wrote in a New York Times piece on September 23, 2023  "The One Million Tibetan Children in China’s Boarding Schools" The One Million Tibetan Children in China’s Boarding Schools that the central government is culturally brainwashing the next generations of Tibetan children in  Chinese boarding schools eradicating parental rights and breaking apart f ..read more

                                                                       Mao announces a new China in 1949 The notion of a political leviathan, historically, could be traced back to emperor Caesars Rome. It is appropriate to name the CPC - Communist Party China -as a political force in the current international global environment. The CPC is a growing threat to g ..read more

  Do we have a prima facie obligation  to obey the law? McCabe says that "God is  not morally responsible for our misdeeds; such responsibility belongs entirely to us." Now, if we accept that God defers good judgement to his teachers on Earth to instil better judgement on His followers, then we are left with moral obligations that are prima facie in nature and subjective to the circumstance and individual who must rely on their own judgement to do he right thing. And so governments enact laws to guide people from making errors- moral or otherwise. With that, the state thro ..read more

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UOCH) indicates that, since 2008, there has been 6407 Palestinian fatalities and 152, 560 Palestinian injuries. Conversely, Israeli fatalities for the same period number  308 with 6,307 Israeli injuries. So when the recent onslaught orchestrated by  HAMAS resulted in more than 1,200 Israeli fatalities; 1537 deaths in Gaza by Israeli reprisals according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. This disproportionate response by Israel to Palestine uprisings is typical. These numbers are reported by CBS through October 12 ..read more

  Introduction The People's Republic of China has grown economically to 12.24 Trillion in 2017 according to World Bank figures.  Mao Zedong's passing in 1976 ushered in reforms under Deng Xiaoping that continue to the present period approaching a mandated "Made in China 2025" objective of surpassing established industrialized nation - states in technological prowess. China continues to adhere to its authoritarian tenets since the CCP ousted the Kuomintang government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.  Currently, the central government has maintained its populist authoritar ..read more

  My dad was a hard core Liberal, born in 1917 in a small town in southern Ontario. Pop, in a small d - experienced the Great Depression and later the effects of WW2 and the aftermath. This is where his allegiance to the Liberal Party of Canada would have begun. The LPC under MacKenzie King were the innovators of the modern Canadian welfare state and THE "Big Tent" party that welcome many immigrants to Canada, and rightly so. Liberal's are adept in sales, strong in debate, and are wise to the pulse of the international community in attracting new Canadians to the Canadian landscape. B ..read more

                                            Getty Images 2022 Early on, I could identify with Vladimir Putin opposite George W Bush's transgressions against Iraq in 2003 and post 911. And why  not with no proof that Iraq had WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and the no fly zone was still effective in limiting Saddam's movements. The Lancet Survey claims that 654,965 were Iraqi casualties  in a second study in 2006, that, des ..read more

 The disaster of the Titan submersible raises a few questions for travel to locations that are risky. Notably, why did this vessel not have any type of black box surveillance device on board in the event of an accident that would provide future intelligence? Air travel on commercial airliner’s require Black Boxes in the event of a crash. In the Titan's case, there is nothing to guide the understanding of what happened to the vessel. In addition, a Black Box surveillance unit would provide legal ramifications for the host operator to defend themselves against accusations regarding inap ..read more