Sketching North Korea’s Sadism
Earlier this month, North Korea publicly executed as many as 80 citizens for such “crimes” as owning a Bible and watching Western movies. According to the South Korean newspaper ...
National Post
The Real Lessons of Munich
On Oct. 10, 1938, 75 years ago today, Nazi Germany formally took control of the Sudetenland, the iron-rich portion of Czechoslovakia containing most of that country’s ethnic German populati...
Op-eds
Canadian Activists are Finally Learning that Israel Isn’t the Middle East’s True Villain
At the time of their release from Egyptian custody this past weekend, filmmaker and pro-Palestinian activist John Greyson and his traveling companion Tarek Loubani were just ...
Op-eds
Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire
The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...
Op-eds
‘Responsibility to Protect’ is No Basis for Bombing Syria
In the Saturday edition of the National Post, eminent human rights advocate Irwin Cotler wrote that “if mass atrocities in Syria are not a case for R2P [the Responsibility to Protect doctri...
Op-eds
Heads Held High in Afghanistan
Of all the books that have come out of the Afghanistan war since 9/11, one of the finest is The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper’s recently published ac...
Op-eds
Build, Baby, Build
For those of us old enough to remember the 1973 oil crisis, the current North American oil-and-gas boom has a slightly surreal quality: The familiar problem of high energy demand and low supply i...
Op-eds
Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel — and Gaza
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has done nothing to cripple the Jewish state’s economy. But it has scored a few big symbolic victories. This week, it...
Op-eds
The Problem with Iran Sanctions
In Today’s National Post, Sara Akrami and Saeed Ghasseminejad highlight the challenge of Western s...
Op-eds
Connecting the Dots: Hezbollah, Iran’s Web of Plots
As the European Union grapples with a ban of the Lebanese Shi’ite organization Hezbollah within its territory, reports emerged last week of foiled Iranian and Hezbollah terror and criminal...
Op-eds
Details Emerge on Suspects in Canadian Terror Plot
By David Barnett On April 22, Canadian officials said the plotting of Chiheb Esseghaier and...
Op-eds
The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing
The student union at York University in Toronto has voted...
Op-eds
Why is the West Doing Business with Sudan?
What does Canada have in common with the regime in Sudan, which perpetrated genocide in Darfur, while allying with Iran and providing weapons to the Palestinian terror group Hamas? In pr...
Op-eds
What Pakistan Needs is a South Asian Anwar Sadat
Power is an addictive drug. And like all addictions, it can drive men to reckless, even suicidal risks. Of this, there is no better example than Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s Presid...
Op-eds
A Look Inside the Monstrous North Korean Gulag System that Dennis Rodman Will Never See
Dennis Rodman — former basketball player, pro wrestler, cross-dresser, boyfriend to Madonna, B-movie performer and reality-show star — is man who will play to any audience. That appar...
Op-eds
Can a Scarred Muslim Nation Ever Get ‘Truth and Reconciliation’?
No one knows when or how Syria’s civil war will end. Nor Afghanistan’s fight against the Taliban. Nor Pakistan’s struggle against jihadis in its northwestern border region. Iran...
Op-eds
Ahmadi Muslims, Killed in Pakistan but Welcomed Here, Perfectly Symbolize Our Canadian Values
Last week, when Canadians learned that the federal government was set to announce the creation of a new “Office of Religious Freedom,” CBC reported the news with...
Op-eds
Al-Qaeda and the Arab Spring
Sitting in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound just days before his demise in May 2011, Osama bin Laden surveyed the political turmoil in the Middle East. In a memo dated April 26, 2011, the terro...
Op-eds
FDD Applauds Canada for Designating Iran’s Quds Force a Terrorist Group
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies congratulates Canada for designating the Iranian regime&rsquo...
Press Releases
Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring
Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy....