Monday, April 13, 2015

Of Calvin, Hobbes and Saddam Hussein's swimming pool

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One from the archives... Tikrit, Iraq - There’s a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that I refer to whenever I’m in need of guidance. In ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

The king is dead. Long live the king. And the Saudi "queen scene"...

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(As the world rushes to Riyadh to attend the funeral of the late King Abdullah, I find myself reminiscing about being there the last time a...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Ten Years Ago.

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Here's the report I filed from Baghdad on the day the Iraqi capital fell to US troops. It ran in The Globe and Mail under the headline...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

"He's Still With Us"

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  (Here's an article I wrote in March 2003, about how Russians were treating the 50th anniversary of Stalin's death. Sadly, much...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Vladimir Putin wins 2011 Confucius Peace Prize

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Beijing: Vladimir Putin, man of peace? Mr. Putin, the former and future President of Russia who is currently doing an internship as the cou...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Democracy, managed (po-russki!)

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Мой анализ решение Путина вернуться в Кремль, которая была переведена на русский язык сайта " Открытая Уфа ".
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Democracy, managed

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( My article below is now online - with a vibrant comments section - at The Globe and Mail ) Saturday afternoon, at a political rally in Mos...
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