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 of [...]
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I knew when I submitted my last book review to The National Post that it might not be published.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 sound like [...]
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 experience. Does it mean to [...]
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 in the [...]
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 boyz, stress of [...]
Don’t ask, don’t know
By Alison@Creekside
Big hullaballoo following CSIS lawyer Geoffrey O’Brian’s testimony before the public safety committee, in which he said that Canadian intelligence agencies would make use of information obtained by torture from foreign agencies in the “one-in-a-million” eventuality that “lives were at stake.” In fact, said O’Brian, who has been with CSIS since its inception in [...]
Remembering Yazamy — badly
By Frank Moher
When it comes to Canadian deaths in Afghanistan, our media’s sentimentality knows no bounds. Each time a soldier dies, we are assured that the young person — for they are almost always young persons — loved animals, or to make people laugh, or, in the case of 22-year old Marc Diab, killed by [...]
911’s Canadian Crusaders
By R.D. Lloyd
The subject of what really happened on 9/11 remains taboo in the mainstream media, particularly in the United States. 9/11 is too tragic an event, too close to home. It is an agonizing wound that still, literally, lies exposed in the center of lower Manhattan.
To question the Bush administration’s explanation of 9/11 in [...]
9/11’s Canadian Crusaders – Drew Noftle
Who?
Drew Noftle
A teacher based in Vancouver.
“I studied Marketing management at Kwantlen University/College in Vancouver Canada, and Mandarin at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.”
9/11 Sceptic since?
“I didn’t suspect anything until 2005. In 2005, I was living a luxurious life in Beijing, China, as the private English teacher for Yang Kaisheng, then President [...]