Cuba – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

Kunduz, Cubans & They Do Not Want to Die

Why are the armies trained by the American military so bad? Taliban fighters with a capture Humvee outside Kunduz, Afghanistan It is one of the key questions of current-day foreign affairs and yet few people ask it. We have interminable media discussions of the military strength of IS or the Taliban: yet little of why the local armies that are purportedly fighting against them are so ineffective? It is worth examining this question with the news this week that the Taliban have...

Boxing and the Canadian Soul

“The wait in the dressing room before a fight – that last hour – could strip a man who never fought before of whatever heart, courage and desire he thought he had…” (John ‘Iceman’ Scully) When you fight in a boxing match, the whole world goes grey. I realized that about fifteen seconds into the fight. I was boxing in the white-collar bout just before the Brazeau-Trudeau match last Saturday. There were hundreds of people watching but the only thing that...