Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category

The U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult to fight the war on terrorism as a battle of hearts and minds this week. They removed speech, free speech, from the arsenal of weapons available.

The first amendment is not the only cause which suffered from this decision. Read more…

Just two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Air India 182 and shortly before the inquiry report is due to be released, a controversial petition is being presented to parliament. Read more…

The Gaza Freedom flotilla is evidence of the paradigm shift that’s taking place in international humanitarian aid.

In the old paradigm, charities tended to work getting aid to victims of natural and political disasters without many legal obstacles. Charities didn’t have to worry about regulations that could potentially label them as terrorists themselves. And the work tended to be done under the political radar, in fact. And in most cases, the point was to deliver the aid, not to transform the process of delivering aid into a political action. Read more…