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The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellberg stole and published the 'Pentagon Papers' in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the US government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried ...

To those who obsessively followed the Covid websites over the past eleven months (including me, I must admit), one thing demanded an explanation above all: why were the worst death rates-per-million in the richest, most developed countries ...

Bertie Ahern, who was the taoiseach (prime minister) of the Irish Republic from 1997 to 2008, was a brilliant machine politician, not a nationalist or an ideologist.

The peculiar thing about the 'peace deal' between Israelis and Palestinians that was announced in Washington on Tuesday was obvious at a single glance.

There are so many heart-wrenching images of the senseless attacks on the civilian population of the Ukraine. One of these is the military personnel assisting elderly people and children across heaps of rubble

In February and March of 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. At that time, I was with the Savoy Society of Ottawa that annually presented a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera.