Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Znet Article Engler: Lobbying Dirty Oil

Znet Article, June, 17 2013 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Stephen Harper's Conservative government has transformed Canadian diplomacy into the lobbying arm of dirty oil

Znet Article Engler: Korean War Gangnam Style

Znet Article, May, 12 2013 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Do a billion YouTube hits justify a war that left four million dead?

Znet Article Engler: Maintaining the One Percent

Znet Article, April, 20 2013 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Canadian aid is largely designed to maintain Western capitalist dominance of the Global South

Znet Article Engler: Understanding the Power of Solidarity

Znet Article, March, 29 2013 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

With politicians and establishment commentators refusing to credit activists, it’s important we write our own history

Znet Article Engler: Could Pipeline Politics In The USA Derail Stephen Harper’s Government?

Znet Article, March, 09 2013 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

The protests against the Keystone XL pipeline have already focused a great deal of attention on the Conservatives’ terrible environmental record

Znet Article Engler: Could Foreign Policy Be Stephen Harper’s Achilles’ Heel?

Znet Article, December, 23 2012 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Harper’s policies have spurred an unprecedented international backlash against Canada

Znet Article Engler: Canada as Global Bully: The Congo Example

Znet Article, December, 11 2012 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

It’s certainly not the first time Canada has worked against the Congo’s population, which remains impoverished despite almost a century and a half of foreigners “developing” the country’s resources

Znet Article Engler: Lobbying For Tar Sands

Znet Article, September, 26 2012 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

While scientists are reporting a stunning reduction in Arctic sea ice Canada's ambassador in the U.S. is stumping for heavy carbon emitting oil

Znet Article Engler: Is Canada At War With Iran? The Evidence Is Growing

Znet Article, August, 31 2012 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Beyond economic sanctions, Ottawa has contributed to the war in various ways

Znet Article Engler: Enamored with NATO

Znet Article, August, 17 2012 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

For the first two decades of the organization, NATO was at the heart of Canada's foreign policy

Znet Article Engler: Cars & Capitalism

Znet Article, May, 06 2011 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Cars facilitate an extra large culture

Znet Article Engler: Canada & Libya

Znet Article, March, 28 2011 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Would Stephen Harper attack Libya simply to justify spending tens of billions of dollars on F-35 fighter jets? Perhaps.

Znet Article Engler: Canada's Contingency Plan

Znet Article, January, 21 2011 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

For more than three decades the RCMP ran PROFUNC, a highly secretive espionage operation and internment plan.

Znet Article Engler: Canada & Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 12 2010 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

While many on the left know that Washington has spent tens of millions of dollars funding groups that oppose Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, less well known is Ottawa’s role, especially that of the Canadian government’s “arms-length” human right...

Znet Article Engler: Tea Party & Cars

Znet Article, December, 01 2010 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

If the Tea Party applied its supposed ideas consistently it would take up the slogan: “Oppose big government, say no to cars.” Or for the more fervent among them: “The automobile is a socialist plot.”

Znet Article Engler: Cars and Class

Znet Article, September, 11 2010 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

A new political party, which won office in Montréal's Plateau Mont-Royal borough last November, has begun to widen sidewalks, add bike paths and close some streets to traffic.

Znet Article Mugyenyi: GM's Volt

Znet Article, August, 28 2010 Bianca Mugyenyi
Mugyenyi's ZSpace page

Don't believe the hype. The GM Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is a threat to those who care about livability, equality and the planet.

Znet Article Engler: Canada Benevolent Actor?

Znet Article, May, 15 2010 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Despite the widely held belief that Canada is a benevolent international actor, Ottawa usually works to advance this country’s corporate and imperial interests. Torture in Afghanistan, saber rattling on Iran, Israel ‘right or wrong’ and opposition...

Znet Article Engler: Québec & Haiti

Znet Article, April, 13 2008 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

As an advanced capitalist state, Québec support for Western imperialism in Haiti should not be surprising.

Znet Article Engler: CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only?

Znet Article, October, 09 2007 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only?

Znet Article Engler: NGOs and Imperialism

Znet Article, September, 02 2007 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

NGOs and Imperialism

Znet Article Engler: Profit Medicine Kills

Znet Article, July, 30 2007 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

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...

Znet Article Engler: Responsibility to Protect?

Znet Article, September, 19 2006 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

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...

Znet Article Engler: No Activism?

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

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...

Znet Article Engler: CBCWorkers Should Lock Themselves In

Znet Article, August, 24 2005 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

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 ...

Znet Article Engler: Market Famines

Znet Article, August, 13 2005 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

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...

Znet Article Engler: Haiti and Media

Znet Article, June, 05 2005 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Extra, extra, read all about it ... but only in ZNet. Here are just a few of the recent non- or under-reported stories involving Canada and Haiti. Did you read in your local paper that in mid-May, 250 people braved a rainy Sunday morning in downt...

Znet Article Engler: Haiti Mobilization

Znet Article, April, 06 2005 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Over sixty people rallied last Tuesday in Montreal in front of both the U.S and French consulates as well as the major federal government offices, marking the 18th anniversary of Haiti’s post-Duvalier (Baby Doc and Papa Doc) constitution. ...

Znet Article Engler: Haiti Demonstration

Znet Article, March, 07 2005 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

Last weekend Haiti solidarity activism took a leap forward. As many as 50 cities held events commemorating the first anniversary since Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's elected president, was forcibly removed from office by U.S marines and flown to ...

Znet Article Engler: Haiti Lies

Znet Article, January, 29 2005 Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page

The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, finally decided to report on Canadian operations in Haiti. In Saturday’s paper Marina Jimenez wrote about Canada’s ongoing role in the hemisphere’s poorest nation. B...

Loading_border