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A poem for Christmas. Virgil's Fourth Ecologue Written 37 B.C.E Dedicated to Pollius Muses of Sicily, essay we now A somewhat loftier task! Not all men love Coppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods, Woods worthy of a Consul let them be. Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung Has come and gone, and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign, With a new breed of men sent down from heaven. Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, Befriend him, chaste Lucina; ...

Introductory Note After giving the matter a little thought, I have decided that I ought to give a comprehensive explanation, for the curious, of why I resorted to law when Henry Kissinger accused me of being a "Holocaust denier". I made this decision in spite of the fact that over-long defenses or justifications are apt to arouse suspicion in themselves - the suspicion of "protesting too much". This difficulty is itself an aspect of the innuendo about "no smoke without fire." In the past several months, I have received a number of genuine and non-malicious inquiries, from people seeking to ...

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January 14, 2001  The dangers of high-tech weaponry By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor A furor erupted across Europe this week after revelations that 15 young NATO veterans of Balkan operations had died of cancer. Hundreds of other NATO troops who served in the Balkans are reportedly ill with cancers of the brain, lungs, kidneys, blood, and lymphatic system. Depleted uranium shells are suspected to be the cause of this epidemic. While denying that depleted uranium (DU) munitions used in tank and aircraft cannon posed any risk to human health, NATO opened a high-level investigation of the thousands of ...

  A WAVE OF SCANDALS BUSINESS WEEK  NOVEMBER 27, 2000 P96-98 Congress is becoming increasingly alarmed that federal money is fueling corruption in Puerto Rico     When 10-year-old Carlos Melendez-Dyer came tearing home from school one day in October he ran through a courtyard that floods with sewage when it rains. He ran by a rusting electric box where high-voltage wiring lies bare. Then he tripped and fell on the crumbling stair-case leading to his tiny apartment, where rain pulses through ill-fitting windows. Home to Carlos is a public-housing project outside San Juan called Las Pal­mas, where the ...

October 22, 2000 Permanent peace still out of reach By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor     What we have seen in the West Bank and Gaza during the last three weeks was a giant prison riot by Palestinians. Of the more than 100 people who died and the 3,000 who were wounded, 95% were Arabs. In North America, the pro-Israel media poured venom on Palestinians, even claiming that stone-throwing teenagers on the occupied West Bank were threatening Israel's very existence. Some media cheerleaders of Israel's right wing even called on the United States to go to war against ...

Tests show Gulf war victims have uranium poisoning Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier     NEW evidence that Gulf war syndrome exists and was caused by radiation poisoning will be revealed today by a former American army colonel who was at the centre of his government's attempts to diagnose the illness. Dr Asaf Durakovic will tell a conference of eminent nuclear scientists in Paris that "tens of thousands" of British and American soldiers are dying from radiation from depleted uranium (DU) shells fired during the Gulf war. The findings will undermine the British and American governments' claims that Gulf ...

ECHELON - UNCLE SAM IS LISTENING By Eric S. Margolis  27 August 2000   CANNES, FRANCE - I used to cringe every time Dr. T,  a senior Libyan diplomat, called me from New York. His calls were merely friendly, personal chats, but I knew they got my name into every counter-intelligence black book there was. With typical Arab politeness, he would always begin: "My dear friend Eric, how is your mother?" To the NSA, CIA, FBI, DIA, NYPD, Egyptian Mukhabarat, Mossad, British MJ6, and God knows what other intelligence agencies that were intercepting his calls, "how is your mother"  ...

  June 15-22, 2000   Metropolis Music EatDrink 8 Days The Arts Film Beauty Shop Talk Sacred Cows                             She's Done It Again 'Molly Ivins can't say that, can she?'  Well, not ethically, she can't. By Marsha Brown Molly Ivins is liberal icon, a breast cancer fighter and a repeat-offender plagiarist. Ivins admits the latest incident of stealing another writer's words is an error all around, partially at the hands of her Fort Worth Star-Telegram editor and partially an honest mistake on her part.  Ivins' May ...

Toronto Sun Columnist: Eric Margolis   June 18, 2000  Can the two Kims create one Korea?       By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor Last week's meeting of the leaders of North and South Korea produced an enormous outpouring of pent-up emotion from the long-suffering, long-separated Korean people. Watching South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung embrace North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (28% of Koreans are confusingly surnamed Kim), left even this hardened cynic, who has taken a skeptical view of Kim Dae Jung's "sunshine policy" toward the North, impressed and deeply moved. The two Kims agreed to work ...

  April 23, 2000  Whites targeted in Mugabe's race war   By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor  NEW YORK -- The murder of another white farmer in Zimbabwe last week is emblematic of a tragic, but little known story - the relentless ethnic cleansing of the white tribes of Africa.  Martin Olds was besieged at his isolated tobacco farm by a gang of 100 thugs. After holding them off for many hours, he was finally wounded, driven from his burning farmhouse, then killed. The attackers were unleashed as a part of a campaign by Zimbabwe's aging strongman, Robert Mugabe, ...

  February 27, 2000  Younger Iranians reject the politics of Khomeini   By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Iranian voters issued a thunderous call for change last week by overwhelmingly electing a new parliament of reformers and moderates committed to modernizing Iran's economy and society.  The dramatic vote, with a remarkable 80% voter turnout, and the election of younger politicians, reflects Iran's new political demographics. Half of its 72.6 million people are under 21.  Religious conservatives still hold the reins of power in Iran: the Council of Guardians, with veto power in Iran's system of Islamic ...

Toronto Sun Columnist: Eric Margolis   Toronto Sun February 20, 2000      Hardliners revive old Russian dreams       By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor   The creeping coup that overthrew Boris Yeltsin late last year marked the unlamented end of Weimar Russia. The Yeltsinshchina, or Yeltsin era, was an unnatural, anomalous period that couldn't last.  When a massive flight of capital from Russia in mid-1998 sounded the death knell for the moribund Yeltsin regime, Russia's security services, armed forces and military-industrial complex, joined forces to seize power and oust Yeltsin. The Communist party gave tacit approval. ...

Toronto Sun Columnist: Eric Margolis   February 6, 2000  Heil Haider? Despite EU hysteria, the controversial Austrian is no Hitler Lite   By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor  Europe is too convulsed by hysterical claims that Joerg Haider's conservative Freedom Party is "neo-Nazi" to even notice that Russia's born-again Communist government is slaughtering thousands of Chechen civilians and has just sown 17 million anti-personnel mines across that tiny nation.  Europe's socialist parties, joined by the United States, Canada and Israel, have denounced the Austrian politician, who has now joined the ruling government coalition, as a "racist," "dangerous extremist," and ...

Quick Link SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz CNEWS Money C-Health Lifewise AUTONET.CA Newsstand En Français ------------ Search us Web Search Free E-Mail Shop.canoe.ca My CANOE Forums Classified Extra ------------ Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Travel News Ticker Biz Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Scoreboard Hockey Forecaster Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index  January 30, 2000  A Latin American Lebanon By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor   Colombian Judge Luz Nagel was our guest two weeks ago on TVO's Diplomatic Immunity. This smart, courageous lady had survived three assassination attempts - including one in which a burly attacker armed with a submachine gun burst into her Bogota office. Judge Nagel managed to draw a pistol and shoot her assailant before he could fire.  War, anarchy and random violence are engulfing Colombia. "How," I asked ...

    ISSUE 1712 Tuesday 1 February 2000 Austria faces EU ostracism over far-Right coalition By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels and Michael Leidig in Vienna       THE European Union sent an unprecedented official communiqué yesterday warning Austria that it faced diplomatic ostracism if the far-Right Freedom Party of Jörg Haider is allowed to join the coalition government.  President Thomas Klestil was informed of a list of sanctions that would include the suspension of all "bilateral official contacts" with the Austrian government, the refusal to receive Austrian ambassadors in EU capitals except at a technical level, and the withrawal ...