A selection of articles, essays, profiles and memoirs.
International Affairs
A Saint for Lost Souls: Death Cult of the Drug Lords? (Foreign Policy)
The Most Hated Name in News: Can Al-Jazeera English Save Journalism? (The Walrus)
Appearing in abridged forms in Utne and Reader’s Digest
Broadcaster of the Year: Al Jazeera (Adbusters)
A Press Row in Qatar (The Economist)
Exodus: Where Will Iraq Go Next? (Harper’s)
Iran’s Quiet Revolution (The Walrus)
It Will All Fall Down: A Conversation With Seymour Hersh (Adbusters)
Into the Lair of the White Bear (Canadian Geographic)
Dubai: Magic Kingdom or Glass House (The Walrus)
Nukes and Double Standards (Asia Times)
Waiting for an Iranian Chernobyl (New Scientist)
Women of Iran (Ms.)
[Unbeknownst to me, this article was given the title of another of my pieces]
What to Read on the Mideast (Alternet)
Recommended reading list, an Alternet top 10 article of the year
Global Nanny (The Tyee)
Post-Autistic Economics (Adbusters)
A Historic Intervention (The Walrus)
Cuba Over the Wall (Vancouver magazine)
Arts & Culture
The Reclamation Artist: Jayce Salloum Gives Voice to the Lost and Forgotten (Canadian Art)
War Artist: Althea Thauberger in Afghanistan (Canadian Art)
The Antiquarian (Utne)
The Outlaw (Canadian Art)
The Death and Life of Painting: Notes From the Photoconceptual Backlash (Canadian Art)
Alpha Girl (Canadian Art)
Bastard Offspring of the Photoconceptualists (Canadian Art)
The Robson Tribe (Vancouver magazine)
Memoir
Sunflowers, St. Petersburg (CBC)
I Shall Not Want (Geist)