The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Thursday, August 31, 2006

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"Shocking" and "Immoral" This is how the UN's humanitarian Chief, Jan Egelund, describes Israel's incomprehensib...
Monday, August 28, 2006

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Beijing's Unsportsmanlike Conduct Considering that the International Children's Games, which this year were held in Thailand, have a...

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You Won't Get your Answers, Wolf It was journalism at its poignantly most painful last night on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitze...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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Right Mandate, Albeit One-Sided The new rules of engagement for UNIFIL troops in Lebanon should assuage the concerns of the potential contri...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

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Iran's Stubbornness Passes Through Iraq Considering the historical belligerence between Iran and the United States, the Islamic Republic...
Friday, August 18, 2006

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Strange War, Strange Peace The 34-day assault of Israel against Lebanon stuns by the lack of objectives that have been achieved. What ostens...
Monday, August 14, 2006

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Fewer Cartoons, and No Horror Starting on September 1, foreign cartoons will be banned from prime-time television in China. This is part of ...

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A Truce with a Huge Hole in It The UN-sponsored truce between Israel and Hezbollah must be one of the oddest truces in the history of warfar...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

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Small Dictators In the grand scheme of things, the object of today's entry shouldn't even register as a speck of dust. I look at the...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

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A Morally-Corrupt Enterprise With hindsight, I cannot believe that during the 29 months that I worked for the Canadian government on matters...
Monday, August 07, 2006

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Smoke as News Ok, maybe photographer Adnan Hajj manipulated his picture on Photoshop and added a little thick black smoke in the skies of a ...

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Hong Kong's New Surveillance Bill The entire pro-democracy opposition walked out, leaving the rest of the 60-member Hong Kong legislatur...

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Time for China to Step Up to the Plate The past four bloody weeks in the Middle East make it clear that the one superpower system we have kn...

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Olmert's Hallucinations Interviewed by the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag , Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said that European lead...
Friday, August 04, 2006

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Adding to the War Crimes Day 24 of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon. Twenty-seven farmers, including Syrians and Kurds, were killed wh...

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A Region Angered The pounding of Lebanon and the un-evenhanded response of world powers to the crisis is awakening a dangerous giant in sout...

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Harper and Others Ought to Listen to Chavez Whether you like him or not, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez does, on occasion, put his flamboy...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

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Debunking the Myth Ever since the war in Lebanon began three weeks ago, Israel and its supporters worldwide have claimed that the killing of...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

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Rabbi McKay Sadly, the Canadian prime minister standing by mutely while a Vancouver rabbi spewed words of hatred wasn't enough for the C...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

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Al-Qaeda but a Pimple, Hezbollah a Cancer, Says Vancouver Rabbi How the Canadian prime minister can attend a pro-Israel rally in Vancouver, ...
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J. Michael Cole 寇謐將
Taipei-based Senior Fellow China Policy Institute U Nott, ass. researcher CEFC, chief ed Taiwan Sentinel, project manager Taiwan Democracy Bulletin. M.A. War Studies Royal Military College of Canada, Int'l Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance CIHC, CX-77 (peacekeeping) Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, B.A. English lit. Ex-deputy news editor Taipei Times 2006-2013, Thinking Taiwan (2014-16). Analyst at Canadian Security Intelligence Service (2003-2005). Published in/by IISS, Brookings, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Christian Science Monitor, SCMP, Globe & Mail, Maclean's, National Interest, Lowy Interpreter, The Age, Jane’s Defence Weekly, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Jane’s Intelligence Weekly, Jane’s Navy International, Jane’s International Defence Review, the Ottawa Citizen, China Brief, CounterPunch, FrontLine Security, Strategic Vision, Asia Today International, The News Lens and The Diplomat. I was the 2012 recipient of the award for Outstanding Journalism from the Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation. I have appeared on BBC, CBC, CNN, VOA, RTI and Al-Jazeera. I use a Nikon D7100 camera. Follow me on Twitter @jmichaelcole1
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