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Terry Glavin

Canadian Author

Born: 1955

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It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi. Terry Glavin

War You Intelligence Control Too Ghastly Tell Something Invented Only Generals Had Primary Taliban Withdrew Because Proved Soviets Afghanistan After Low Agency Should Standards Even Pakistan Early Early 1990s

The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation of their property and the purchase and export of German goods to break the boycott of Germany's Nazi-controlled economy. Terry Glavin

Property Jews Purchase Exchange Allowed Goods Economy Boycott Well-To-Do German Germany Escape Liquidation Break Export Agreement

The United States is NATO's leading military power, and President Barack Obama has required NATO to align behind a doctrine that has amounted to the most disastrous American foreign-policy debacle since Vietnam. Terry Glavin

Power NATO Military President President Barack Obama Align States Obama Leading Since Disastrous Most Doctrine American Behind Barack Barack Obama Vietnam Required Military Power United United States

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan genocide erupted in 1994 and the Darfur genocide began in 2003, that the 'international community' had learned nothing since the Holocaust. Terry Glavin

Genocide Nothing Community Kicked Darfur Bosnian Had Since Learned Said Hear Off Began After Commonplace Holocaust International International Community

Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes. Terry Glavin

Nothing Resource Says Sector Claims Enterprises About He Wrong Also Likes Up Canada Espionage Chinese Much Wary Buying

It has been almost three years since U.S. President Barack Obama pipsqueaked on his chemical-weapons 'red line' in Syria and joined with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in the pantomime that resulted in the Sept. 27, 2013 U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118, which called on Assad to surrender his chemical weapons stockpile. Terry Glavin

Surrender Three President President Barack Obama Pantomime Syria Has-Been Security Obama Security Council Weapons Russian Resulted Joined Council Putin Almost Red Since Red Line Chemical Line Been His Years Which Barack Barack Obama Sept Resolution

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban. Terry Glavin

The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democratic than any regime run by any clique the Chinese Communist Party's ruling elite has vomited up since the days of Mao Zedong. Terry Glavin

Party President Ruling Run More Brutally Since Days Clique Up Than Any Vicious Regime Chinese Communist Mao Elite

Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industries, the indentured-labour service had to be dismantled by the Conservatives owing to its inevitably scandalous abuse by disreputable employers. By 2012, there were 338,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada. Terry Glavin

Service Key Conservatives Ailment Scandalous Temporary Remedy Had Abuse Conceived Employers Industries Occasional Foreign Inevitably Were Canada Labour Owing Short-Term Shortages Workers Acute

In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada's favour. Terry Glavin

Favour Data Federal Surplus Canada Modest Billion

There is much in the result of John Chilcot's seven-year inquiry into the decision-making that led to Britain's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that can be cited to excuse headlines that refer to his findings as 'scathing' and 'damning.' Terry Glavin

Result Damning Inquiry Cited John Invasion Headlines Excuse Involvement Refer His Led Iraq Decision-Making Much Britain

Roughly nine of every 10 Syrian war dead since 2011 are on the butcher's bill accumulated by Assad and his friends in Iran's Quds Force, the Iran-allied Hezbollah, and the Russian air force. Terry Glavin

War Air Force Every Nine Air Syrian Russian Since Dead Force His Iran Friends Accumulate Bill Roughly Butcher

Patrick Pearse - who set the events of 1916 in motion when he read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin - is not exactly an unfamiliar name to the Miramichi Irish. Terry Glavin

Events Post Post Office Exactly General He Steps Name Read Dublin Motion Irish Office Unfamiliar Republic Proclamation Who Set

In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Terry Glavin

War Humanity Genocide Matters Crimes Criminal States Syria Security Security Council Case Council Like Court Iraq Against Enforcement International

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list. Terry Glavin

Disaffection, alienation and conspiracy theories are commonplace among European Muslims, but dangerous Islamist radicalism and the Islamic State's 'foreign fighter' recruitment successes tend to be specific to certain European towns, districts and ghettos. Terry Glavin

Dangerous Conspiracy Fighter State Alienation Muslims Districts Tend Recruitment Towns Islamic Foreign Commonplace Successes Certain Theories European Specific Among

A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria. Terry Glavin

'The world's wealthiest failed state,' as it has come to be known, Belgium endured 589 days without a functioning elected government between June 2010 and December 2011 and remains a dysfunctional, linguistically divided waxworks of one federal and five regional-cultural parliaments. Terry Glavin

Government World State Divided Remains Federal Failed Between Days Come Known Without Five June December Endured Dysfunctional Elected Belgium

It's true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an 'enemy state,' but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway. Terry Glavin

Armed drones have become Barack Obama's way to engage in terrorist-infested hellholes without putting 'boots on the ground.' For years, the CIA has been running a secrecy-shrouded program of targeted killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and more recently in Somalia, Syria and Iraq. Terry Glavin

CIA Become Way Syria Has-Been Boots Obama Running Somalia More Drones Putting Armed Without Been Years Iraq Yemen Targeted Afghanistan Barack Engage Ground Pakistan Program Recently

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has been resorting to the 'It's racism' dodge for years now in order to shut down scrutiny of his determined inattention to the catastrophe of Vancouver's housing crisis. Terry Glavin

Racism Down Crisis Has-Been Vancouver Determined Catastrophe Robertson Dodge Housing Been His Years Mayor Order Scrutiny Now Shut

Chia Chang, the Washington correspondent for the privately owned Taipei news organization 'United Daily News,' was told to leave the ICAO building after producing a Taiwanese passport to ICAO media accreditation officials. Canada recognizes Taiwanese passports. Beijing does not. Terry Glavin

When one's greatest 'world stage' ambition is a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council five years down the road, one would not want to say anything to hurt the feelings of the veto holders in Moscow or Beijing. We get it. But let's at least be honest about all this, please. Enough of the 'Canada is back' slogans already. Terry Glavin

Hurt World Feelings Ambition Stage Down Enough Back Please Say Security Security Council Slogans Would About Council Road Moscow Greatest Least Years Five Canada Get Veto Beijing Want Anything Down The Road Seat World Stage Honest

Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.' Terry Glavin

Monthly Memoirs Vancouver Fables Delightful Inspired Journal Name George Account Curious James Title Cook Captain Appeared Among Assignments British

About 3,500 years ago, when a patriarch called Moses was supposed to be leading a tribe of Seth's descendants out of the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula, another tribe of shepherds and pastoralists had already established a small kingdom for itself at Balkh. Terry Glavin

Tribe Out Peninsula Kingdom About Small Had Leading Moses Supposed Another Shepherds Years Years Ago Itself Established Descendants Deserts

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