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ITYS - I Told You So: Former Chad President on Trial for Crimes
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, August 03, 2015. Former Chad President on Trial for Crimes. Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. Hissène Habré, the former president of the northern African nation of Chad, is now on trial in a special court in Senegal, accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture. Habré ruled the desert country from 1982 to 1990, when he was deposed by Idriss Déby Itno, the current president. His governme...
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ITYS - I Told You So: August 2015
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, August 31, 2015. How Effective is the International Criminal Court? Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. When U.S. president Barack Obama visited Kenya, his father’s homeland, in July, he was greeted by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta – a man who has been accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. But its record is spotty. So far, the ICC has been unable to bring to trial...
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ITYS - I Told You So: May 2015
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, May 25, 2015. Russian Arms Sales in the Middle East. Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. Russia recently announced the lifting of its 2010 ban on the sale to Iran of five S-300 PMU-1anti-aircraft missile systems. Iran had ordered them in 2007, but Russia halted the sale under international pressure. By the early 1970s, the number of Soviet personnel in Egypt had risen to nearly 20,000. They particip...
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ITYS - I Told You So: March 2015
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, March 30, 2015. Will American Self-Sufficiency in Oil Affect its Foreign Policy? Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. This has led to a decrease in America reliance on imported oil from volatile and uncertain sources in the Middle East, Venezuela, and elsewhere. Though the U.S. still gets almost 40 per cent of its petroleum from abroad – about 15 per cent from Saudi Arabia, 13 per cent from...This is an ...
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ITYS - I Told You So: April 2015
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Nepal is No Shangri-La. Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian. The powerful earthquake that killed thousands of people on April 25 in Nepal drew the world’s attention to the country. Large parts of the capital, Kathmandu, were in ruins. It is an incredibly fractured country: 125 caste and ethnic groups, and 123 languages, were reported in the 2011 national census. The two largest demograp...
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ITYS - I Told You So: Anniversary Marked
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, July 13, 2015. Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. Two of the 20th century’s well-known dictators died in 1975, 40 years ago. Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of Nationalist China, was 87 when he passed away on April 5, 1975, while Francisco Franco, the caudillo of Spain, was almost 83 when he succumbed to illness on Nov. 20, 1975. Though Japan was defeated in 1945, civil war broke out between the KMT and the Co...
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ITYS - I Told You So: Should India Have Been Partitoned in 1947?
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, July 20, 2015. Should India Have Been Partitoned in 1947? Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. The advocates of today’s fashionable but often utopian ideal of multiculturalism are usually critical of states based on national or religious beliefs. Some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as a million murdered. There were massacres, arson, forced conversions, and rape. Whole village...The B...
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ITYS - I Told You So: Will Tunisia's Fragile Democracy Survive?
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Thursday, July 02, 2015. Will Tunisia's Fragile Democracy Survive? Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian. The only state to have come out of the Arab Spring with genuine democratic institutions, after popular discontent toppled the autocratic Ben Ali regime in December 2010, is the north African nation of Tunisia. But will this last? Recent events make the prognosis problematic. Last December, a group of Tunisian Isla...
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ITYS - I Told You So: July 2015
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, July 27, 2015. Citizenship Issues Ruined a West African Country. Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. The issues revolving around migration and citizenship eligibility continue to roil the political waters in both Europe and the United States, as desperate people cross the Mediterranean and the Rio Grande River, seeking better opportunities. Côte d’Ivoire prospered economically. This success be...As well...
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ITYS - I Told You So: June 2015
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ITYS - I Told You So. Essays on American, Canadian, and international politics. Monday, June 29, 2015. Many of Our Cultural Institutions are in the U.S. Henry Srebrnik, [Summerside, PEI] Journal Pioneer. Have you ever wondered why most Canadian cities have fewer cultural institutions than they ought to? It’s because we “outsource” much of our cultural life. No one in Australia or Britain will spend just a weekend in a great American city, the way we can. From southern Ontario, it’s fairly simple to...
