Coliver graduated as the summa cum laude. In 1945 she worked as a translator at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco and a few years after that, she went back to Germany and translated the pretrial testimony for high-ranking Nazi officer Hermann Goering. She received her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, studying International Relations and Languages. Two years later, she and her family moved to San Francisco, California. She moved to London with her family in 1936 after being denied an academic award for being Jewish. but those are just inconvenient facts to be avoided if you write for Veterans Today.First female Field Office Director for the Asia FoundationĮdith Smith was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1922. I guess the plan failed because Israel is geopolitically weaker than it has ever been and Canada is building a pipeline to send oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gul believes that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency handed the Bush family the opportunity it has been waiting for to consolidate America’s imperial grip on the oil-rich Gulf. Gul could also be considered the “Father of the Truthers”, having declared before the dust had settled at ground zero that 9/11 was an inside job. At this conference it was declared a religious duty of all Muslims to protect the Taliban government, and Osama bin Laden was termed a “great Muslim warrior”. Apart from being nicknamed “Father of the Taliban”, Gul was a sponsor of the Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania Islamic conference in 2001 (a sort of TIFF for Islamist groups except there is no booze or partying and everyone sports a beard). Embassy in Kabul, as well as on a NATO base in Afghanistan earlier this month.Īs former head of ISI, Hamid Gul is in it up to his beret. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, called a “veritable arm” of the ISI, blaming its fighters for a deadly attack on the U.S. The ISI has been in the news a lot lately, accused of having provided Osama bin Laden with sanctuary in Abbottabad, supported and assisted the Taliban and as it also turns out, allying itself with the Haqqani Network. In my digging into Veterans Today’s structure, it turns out that none other than the former head of Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) Hamid Gul is listed on their Editorial Board of Directors. But the U of L was wise to distance itself from Blakeney and Veterans Today for more than just the obvious reasons. You have to admire the U of L for calling a spade a spade when many of today’s university administrators either willfully forget their core principles or are too craven to take on the left-wing demagogues currently occupying the faculty lounge. The next issue of NP Platformed will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Wood concluded his statement to me by adding, “In my capacity as Dean of Graduate Studies, I unequivocally retract this congratulatory note.”Ī welcome email is on its way. Blakeney may also be somewhat nonplussed to know that Dr. Blakeney for his formal involvement with Veterans Today”.
Wood also explained that it was an “administrative oversight that resulted in the innocent placement of a congratulatory note in the School of Graduate Studies newsletter, commending Mr. Robert Wood, in response to my article, stated, “The anti-Semitic content that is periodically published in Veterans Today is morally repugnant, and it deeply offends the core principles of tolerance, respect, and citizenship upon which the University of Lethbridge is founded.” Dr. The U of L’s Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. In stark contrast to many of our institutions of higher learning (the mealy-mouthed York University and the University of Toronto immediately spring to mind), the University of Lethbridge didn’t mince any words in its response to Blakeney’s new gig at Veterans Today. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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