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Some Weak Tea for the Third Intifada
Mahmood Abbas, President of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestine’s ruling party, did…
Deal or No Nuclear Deal: How the Crisis with Iran Began…
When the staunchly conservative members of the United States government echo and applaud the fear-mongering…
Weekly Round-Up: One Last Look
This week, MIR online traveled from Algeria, to Russia, to Venezuela, and various places in between. We covered…
Bibi or Nothing!
Israel has voted. The result was surprising: Bibi will maintain his position as Prime Minister, even if every…
Bibi sinon rien!
Israël a voté. Le résultat a été surprenant: Bibi conserve son poste, alors que tout laissait penser le…
IRSAM at the UN (Part 2 of 2): When We Shook Our Heads
Part 1 of this series outlined the areas of convergence that a group of students from McGill University were able…
Bolstering Human Rights: A Brick in the Road
Last month, Amnesty International released their annual 2014/15 report on the state of the world’s human rights.…
Perdu en Translation
Qui ne connaît pas la fameuse formule de JFK « ich bin ein berliner » ? Me croiriez-vous si je vous disais que sa…
Lost in Translation
Who isn’t familiar with JFK’s famous words “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”? Would you believe me If I told you the correct…
Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis: Lessons in Canadian…
Only twenty years into its foreign policy independence, Canada’s top diplomat had ended what could have been an…
Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis: Lessons in Canadian…
To date, only one Canadian has ever received the Nobel Peace Prize. Lester B. Pearson, Secretary of State for…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 6: Frontier…
While the Arab Spring rocked much of the Arab world, upending the regional political order, states in the…