Canada’s Liberals are stoking the political fires on the back of women’s health in advance of the upcoming G-8. The summit has virtually been hijacked by an aggressive political drive, pushing the hot-button abortion issue on the world stage for votes in Canada.
At the helm is Liberal Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff who launched a desperate [...]
Canada Enters the Culture War over Abortion
Allawi Wins and the Media Misses the Significance
Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s al-Iraqiya bloc has won the most seats in Iraq’s parliament. Polls before the election showed a very comfortable lead for al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition, which came in a very close second. The biggest loser was the Iraqi National Alliance, a bloc of pro-Iran Shiite religious parties.
In a previous article [...]
Disaster Averted? Iraqi Court Overturns Ban on 500 Politicians
(photo: Iraqis put up election posters in Basra as a soldier provides security.)
I previously wrote about a major crisis unfolding in Iraq for FrontPage Magazine on January 22 (click here to read it) after the Independent High Election Commission sided with the Justice and Accountability Commission in banning 500 politicians from the March parliamentary elections [...]

























