Retired attorney, sharing residences between New Hampshire, USA and Montreal, Canada. I closely follow political issues on both sides of the border. I have also lived in Europe (London, Paris) and Asia (Hong Kong, Taipei).
I have and still travel extensively. My current interests are centered a lot about the current Middle East conflict and its challenges. While I say I am retired, that is only from the legal profession. I currently work with and for a large human relief agency, my area of authority being the Middle East. As a result, I spend in fact more time in Israel and Palestine and other Middle East countries than the combine time I spend either in America or Canada. Before that, still for the agency, I spend a lot of time in various African nations. I have spend in the last twelve years more time that I care to in war zones from Somalia to South America not forgetting the Israeli/Palestine conflict. I am multilingual. Frequent contributor to human rights groups and “expert” witness for both legislative bodies and mainstream media. I consider myself a capitalist humanist. My politics are left from center whatever that might mean.
Also a proud parent and grandfather.
Used to be a ardent Abuzzer and wonder what has happened of my old friends and foes.
Sat 27 Aug, 2005 10:41 am - I made a mistake in my inference that Chalabi's conviction and Arar's case stemmed from the same country. It is Jordan that condemned Chalabi while Arar was detained by our... (view)
Sat 27 Aug, 2005 10:32 am - Hello Blatham
Your understanding of shield laws is quite Canadian. There is in fact no shield laws in Canada for either whistleblowers or journalists. You have some limited common law protection... (view)
Fri 26 Aug, 2005 12:17 pm - Hello blatham.
It is amusing that your spurious mind would limit shield laws to those who are whistleblowers and not journalists.
The kind of shield law I was referring to wasn't about... (view)
Fri 19 Aug, 2005 01:20 pm - Lets face it: for all the might of our claim to be civilized, we might just be on the way to be.
Both our declaration of independence and our constitution inspired many. Yet what did it exactly... (view)
Fri 19 Aug, 2005 09:44 am - Hi Acquiunk.
It is indeed curious that we are one of the only advanced federal democracy not to have minimum uniform standards across the board.
In western Europe voter turnout in national... (view)
Fri 19 Aug, 2005 09:26 am - We are firmly entrenched in a two parties system which seems incongruous to may of the other democratic states. Most are based on a parliamentary system and multiple parties, often governing based... (view)
Fri 19 Aug, 2005 08:58 am - Huffington has a personal beef with Miller and it shows. She isn't about principle in this matter and for sure would never go to jail on account of her stands for she doesn't seem to have... (view)
Fri 19 Aug, 2005 08:57 am - Huffington has a personal beef with Miller and it shows. She isn't about principle in this matter and for sure would never go to jail on account of her stands for she doesn't seem to have... (view)
