Defining what is and what is not terrorism is not easy and we should stop pretending that it is.
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Today is one of those days in history where I have an unfortunate richness in terrorist attacks to choose from.
On November 17, 1986, Action Directe assassinated Georges Besse, CEO of the French car manufacturer Renault outside his home in Paris.
On this day in 2018 – one year ago – two bombs were deployed in Buenos Aires before the convening of yet another G-20 event.
A lot of people mock Canadian television. When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s in southwestern Ontario we all watched American networks and shows, not Canadian ones. The former were exciting and funny and popular while the latter were, well, Canadian. This criticism of mine is probably unfair as there is some […]
Does the term ‘Dirty War’ mean anything to you? By this I mean the upper case Dirty War and not some generic concept as I would bet that most wars, if not all, have a dirty phase to them. In this instance I am referring to the Argentine Dirty War from 1976 to 1983, a […]
In the late summer of 1982 I was driving back to London (Ontario) after having finished an intern job as a Spanish translator with the Multilingual Bureau at the Canadian Secretary of State department in what was then called Hull, Quebec (now known as Gatineau). I had had my first real exposure to a government […]
On this day in 1920 a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on New York’s iconic Wall Street, stopped near the JP Morgan bank headquarters and went boom.
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When bad guys use good technology
I have to confess that I am a fan of the CBC. Not out of any sense of Canadian nationalism necessarily, although there is probably some of that too. No, I like the CBC because I like the variety of its programming, especially the radio offerings. I try not to miss episodes of The Debaters, […]
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Terrorism: plus ca change (part 1)
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9) For many in the post 9/11 world it may seem as if terrorism is something new – and terrible. We are constantly inundated with news about attacks here and attacks there, sometimes […]