#Peacekeeping

My family lost $150k from uninsured damages when "protestors" looted our store in SF earlier this summer. We lost 10 years of our lives. I supported BLM until that day.
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We must both act as if the system is intact enough to enable us to remove a tyrant from power through the electoral process AND we must recognize the tyrant
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Reminder: the @UNPeacekeeping budgets are some $3.16 billion in arrears. Have you anything to say about the large US slice of that @USAmbUN? https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/02/world/ap-virus-outbreak-un-cash-crisis.html?searchResultPosition=
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Most people do not seem to be mentally prepared for how much worse things can and likely will get over the next few months or for how fast things will
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A generation of Canadians was influenced by the Heritage Minutes, historical vignettes that began in 1995 and are still in circulation. While presented as neutral and apolitical, the Heritage Minutes
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Armenian-Azerbaijani war at a critical conjuncture. AZ forces have extended advance along southern flank to recapture yesterday Zangilan. Now reportedly advancing northwards through Qubatly towards Lachin, the corridor connecting ARM
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1st August, 1846 is the raising day of The Sikh Regiment.The 1st battalion of The Sikh Regiment was the Commonwealth's most decorated battalion & to this day Sikh regiment remains one
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okay I’ve decided on my next rant: jedi order reform is bullshit For one thing it reeks because you’re saying a group that was wiped out has to conform in
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1) Imagine you were born in Lebanon in 1970. On your 5th birthday, a civil war starts, and doesn’t end for 15 years. More than 120,000 people perish in that
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1/9 This sounded so undiplomatic! My point re @GlobalSummitCAN conference - in the Ottawa echo chamber we convince ourselves that Canada is influential in the world. Yes we keep our
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1/25 Already a month has passed since the beginning of the war. No matter how many people in the region thought that war was inevitable, no one could have predicted
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“Thread: Support to Bosnian Muslims by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency against the Serbian atrocities”Pakistan ran an active military intelligence program from 1992 until 1995 while the west continued it's
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The @PoppyLegion has launched this year's #PoppyAppeal in support of those most vulnerable in the Armed Forces community.Find out more about this charitable effort and why #EveryPoppyCounts in the
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It's sort of extraordinary how brutal police are willing to be, the lengths to which they are willing to go, the solidarity they are willing to show, in order to
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As a Tamil revolutionary activist and writer, I've been hearing a lot on the Tamil and Sikh genocides lately and particularly the role of Sikhs in the Tamil genocide. I've
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Thread: 1. For full disclosure. I love Canada. Have family there. Lost count on how many times I have been there since my first visit 1973. All in all, with
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