Speaking at a forum, Jan. 23, 2011, sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Project Peacemakers, author/activist Yves Engler explores Stephen Harper’s foreign policy and how it cost Canada its bid, in 2010, for a seat on the United Nations Security…
Category: Opinions and Debates
F-35 Stealth Fighter: A bad deal for Canada
By Michael Bueckert, Program Coordinator, Project Peacemakers As you may know, this past July, the Conservative government announced what could be the single largest military procurement in Canada’s history when it declared its intention to buy 65 F-35 Lightning II…
My Return to Haiti
A profit-driven recovery plan cannot reconstruct my country By Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Counterpunch, Feb. 4-6, 2011 Haiti’s devastating earthquake in January last year destroyed up to 5,000 schools and 80% of the country’s already weak university infrastructure. The primary school in…
The protest movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Jan. 29, 2011 The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World? “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true…
Egypt: And then everything changed…
By Murray Dobbin, rabble.ca, Jan. 31, 2011 The photographs are as stunning as they are inspiring. The world is now totally focused on the democratic rebellion in Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak, the dictator who Israel relies on for its current…
Revival of a Military Option: Israel’s Covert War Against Iran Is On
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Global Research, January 26, 2011 After talks in Istanbul between Iran and the West on its nuclear program broke down on January 22, the danger of revival of a military option looms large. It may not come…
The logic of imperial insanity and the road to World War III
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, Jan. 14, 2011 Defining the Imperial Stratagem In the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that,…
Gaza and Israel: Canada’s double standards
By Yves Engler, Electronic Intifada, Jan. 13, 2011 Canada’s tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there’s nothing that can be done about it. In June of last year, Guelph activist Dan…
Haiti – another year older and deeper in misery
The International Community and Haiti a Year Later: The Failure of an Imperial Trusteeship By Alex Dupuy, Canada-Haiti Action Network, Jan. 10, 2011 The international community responded immediately and massively to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12,…
The not so great Islamist menace
By Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 5, 2011 If someone mentioned terrorism in Europe, you would probably have an idea about the size of the threat and who’s responsible. It’s big, you would think. And growing. As for who’s responsible,…
