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Engler: Canada is Israel
Commentary, February, 13 2009
Yves Engler
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The Harper government publicly supported Israel's brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel's actions. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
Engler: Canada in Africa
Commentary, January, 31 2009
Yves Engler
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In mid December, Robert Fowler, a career Canadian diplomat who is currently the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Niger, and his aide Louis Guay, an official at Foreign Affairs, were abducted in Niger. They were kidnapped not long after visi...
Engler: Canada & Israel's Occupation
Commentary, January, 15 2009
Yves Engler
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The Canadian Left has taken a major step forward in opposition to Zionism. On Saturday Montréal held probably the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in Canadian history. Despite some ridiculous media reports, I estimate that there were between...
Engler: Canada in Afghanistan
Commentary, January, 08 2009
Yves Engler
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Are highly secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 commandos assassinating Afghanis during night raids?
Engler: Peru
Commentary, November, 05 2008
Yves Engler
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Canadian resource companies are under fire in Peru. On October 21, Cesar Zuniga, the president of the Achuar indigenous group FENAP, told a local radio: "We, as indigenous people, reject the Canadian company Talisman. We do not want them working i...
Engler: Canada & Iran
Commentary, September, 13 2008
Yves Engler
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In early July, a National Post reporter on board a Canadian naval vessel explained: "The usual tense games were played this weekend as this Canadian warship responsible for refueling and replenishing a coalition task force in the Indian Ocean pass...
Engler: Canada Congo Olympics
Commentary, September, 01 2008
Yves Engler
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The mainstream media's hypocrisy during the Olympics would have been funny if it weren't so ignorance-producing.
Engler: Canadian Aid
Commentary, May, 09 2008
Yves Engler
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Canadian foreign aid has been widely derided as ineffective. But that's simply not true. Commentators have just been looking in the wrong places. Canadian aid has been highly effective at transforming taxes into profits for major Canadian corpora...
Engler: Québec & Haiti
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Yves Engler
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As an advanced capitalist state, Québec support for Western imperialism in Haiti should not be surprising.
Engler: CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only?
Znet Article, October, 09 2007
Yves Engler
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CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only?
Engler: Canadian Foreign Policy and Iran
Commentary, September, 27 2007
Yves Engler
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It appears that the US is planning an attack against Iran and Ottawa is pitching in to help.
Engler: NGOs and Imperialism
Znet Article, September, 02 2007
Yves Engler
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NGOs and Imperialism
Engler: Haiti, Capital And The Responsibility To Protect
Commentary, September, 02 2007
Yves Engler
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Why did Canada help overthrow Haiti's elected government in 2004? That's a question I heard over and over when speaking about Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority, a book Anthony Fenton and I co-wrote. Most people had difficulty unders...
Engler: Profit Medicine Kills
Znet Article, July, 30 2007
Yves Engler
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A front–page article in Friday's New York Times reports "The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected this year that one of every 22 patients would get an infection while hospitalized — 1.7 million cases a year — and that 99,00...
Engler: Imperialism and the Bully's Coat
Commentary, July, 13 2007
Yves Engler
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Linda McQuaig's new book, Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the US Empire, is far better than most on the subject of Canadian foreign policy. Unfortunately, that is damning with faint praise indeed.
Engler: Responsibility to Protect?
Znet Article, September, 19 2006
Yves Engler
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Does the Canadian-promoted “Responsibility to Protect†doctrine include murder rape, and threats of violence? That’s the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical jou...
Engler: No Activism?
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Yves Engler
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Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...
Engler: CBCWorkers Should Lock Themselves In
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Yves Engler
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All progressive Canadians should support workers who are currently “locked out†by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation management. They are fighting an important struggle over the future of public service broadcasting in an era ...
Engler: Market Famines
Znet Article, August, 13 2005
Yves Engler
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Starving children get media attention, well-fed imperial economists don’t. Yet modern history shows they are usually two sides of the famine coin. Over the past month thousands have died of starvation in Niger. All the while food has been...
