The Protocols of Jonathan Kay
AMONG THE TRUTHERS By Jonathan Kay Harper Collins 368 pages, $32.99 hardcover, $25.99 ebook Reviewed by Frank Moher On the evening of Saturday, June 26, 2010, Jonathan Kay headed out on his bike into the streets of Toronto to see what was up with the G20. What he saw, he wrote early the next morning [...]
9/11′s happy ending
By Frank Moher The Americans who gathered outside the White House and at Ground Zero last night, waving their inevitable flags to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden, were touching in their desire to see an end to the nightmare that has been made of their lives and their country in these last nine-and-a-half [...]
Our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll, v 2.0
By Frank Moher Time to update our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll. Some fine qualifees have presented themselves in recent months. The original idea of the list was to record for posterity those news organizations that have or haven’t done their job in covering 9/11. You’ll find that roster here. For this iteration, I’m expanding [...]
9/11 honour and dishonour
By Frank Moher As it becomes increasingly clear that the official explanation of 9/11 is insupportable and won’t stand the test of time, I thought it might be apropos to establish a media “Honour” and “Dishonour” roll, recording those news organizations who have or haven’t done their job in reporting the story. The idea here [...]
Part II: On being disappeared by The National Post
By Frank Moher In our last episode, I said I’d tell you what I found out about why my review of What the Furies Bring disappeared from The National Post website a day after being put up. My little investigation provides a tonic insight into what happens when journalists find themselves on the receiving end [...]
On being disappeared by The National Post
By Frank Moher I knew when I submitted my last book review to The National Post that it might not be published. What I didn’t expect was that the Post would publish it, and then unpublish it. The review was of a book of essays, What the Furies Bring, by Canadian poet Kenneth Sherman. Doesn’t [...]
By the book
WHAT THE FURIES BRING By Kenneth Sherman The Porcupine’s Quill 170 pages; $19.95 Review by Frank Moher What does it mean to be an intellectual? Does it simply mean to think a lot, and vigorously, about something other than yourself? If so, some cab drivers I’ve had are among the most impressive intellectuals in my [...]
The occupation of Afghanistan: “Useless.”
By Alison@Creekside “A bit useless” is how 23-year-old Private Jonathan Couturier, the 131st Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan, described the Afghan “mission” that took his life. If we are to have standing armies, the very least we can do, the absolute minimum responsibility we have to them, is not send them off to die [...]
Fun and games in Afghanistan
By Alison@Creekside ArmorGroup mercenaries in charge of security at the US embassy in Kabul: “. . . dancing naked around a fire, licking each others nipples and grabbing each others testicles, sex acts, peeing on each other, vodka shots from butt cracks, eating potato chips from clenched buttocks . . .” Well, boyz will be [...]
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