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- Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010
Commentary Is the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) trying to intimidate and spy on pro-Palestinian Canadians? Do they share this information with Mossad? -
- Saturday, Aug 28, 2010
ZNet Article 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. -
- Thursday, Jul 15, 2010
Commentary Six months ago a devastating earthquake killed more than 230,000 Haitians. About 100,000 homes were completely destroyed, alongside a thousand schools and many other buildings. The scenes of devastation filled TV screens around the world. -
- Sunday, Jun 27, 2010
Commentary Three weeks ago, the front page of Haiti Liberté showed a picture of President René Préval next to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and two Canadian soldiers. Part of the caption below read, "Préval under the surveillance of the occupying forces." -
- Saturday, May 15, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Apr 26, 2010
Commentary Did you know GM sells more cars in China than the U.S.? -
- Saturday, Mar 20, 2010
Commentary In my new book Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid I argue that the trajectory of this country's foreign policy has been clear: The culmination of six decades of one-sided support, and four years into the Stephen Harper government, Canada is (at... -
- Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
Commentary The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela. -
- Tuesday, Oct 06, 2009
Commentary Reducing the size of the Canadian Armed Forces should be a priority for those of us that want a more peaceful world. It should also be a priority for anyone concerned about the environment. -
- Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
Commentary Despite a loud chorus claiming otherwise, anti-Semitism is a mere fig leaf of its former oppressive character. Six decades ago "none is too many" was the order of the day in Ottawa, which rejected Jewish refugees escaping Nazi concentration camps.... -
- Sunday, Aug 16, 2009
Commentary Even a close observer of the Canadian press would know almost nothing about the ongoing demonstrations, blockades and work stoppages calling for the return of elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since Zelaya was overthrown by the military on June 28 ... -
- Monday, Jul 06, 2009
Commentary At Saturday's special meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Canada's minister for the Americas, Peter Kent, recommended that ousted President Manuel Zelaya delay his planned return to the country. Kent said the "time is not right" p... -
- Friday, May 15, 2009
Commentary On Sunday military forces trained by the Canadian Special Operational Regiment subdued a hijacker who took command of a Halifax-based CanJet plane at an airport partly run by Vancouver Airport Services. While Canadian companies and institutions pl... -
- Monday, Apr 27, 2009
Commentary Three weeks ago, the Harper government rejected a proposal to make diplomatic and financial support for resource companies operating overseas contingent upon socially responsible conduct. Under popular pressure, the Mining Association of Canada ag... -
- Monday, Apr 13, 2009
Commentary At the end of February Stephen Harper referred to Russia as "aggressive." In a throwback to the Cold War, two weeks ago Defense Minister Peter MacKay added that Ottawa will respond to Russian flights in the Arctic by flying Canadian fighter jets n... -
- Saturday, Mar 28, 2009
Commentary A major obstacle for anyone organizing to "right" a Canadian foreign policy "wrong" is the widely held notion that this country acts benevolently on the world stage. "Myths for Profit," a recently released documentary written and directed by Amy M... -
- Wednesday, Mar 18, 2009
Commentary During the first half of the 20th century, Toronto-based Brazilian Traction (or Brascan) dominated the Brazilian economy. At its high point in the 1940s, the company employed nearly 50,000 Brazilians. -
- Saturday, Feb 28, 2009
Commentary From the grips of the most barbaric form of plantation economy sprung probably the greatest example of liberation in the history of humanity. The 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution was simultaneously a struggle against slavery, colonialism and white sup... -
- Friday, Feb 13, 2009
Commentary 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. -
- Saturday, Jan 31, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Jan 15, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Jan 08, 2009
Commentary Are highly secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 commandos assassinating Afghanis during night raids? -
- Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Sep 13, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Sep 01, 2008
Commentary The mainstream media's hypocrisy during the Olympics would have been funny if it weren't so ignorance-producing. -
- Friday, May 09, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, Apr 13, 2008
ZNet Article As an advanced capitalist state, Québec support for Western imperialism in Haiti should not be surprising. -
- Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
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- Tuesday, Oct 09, 2007
ZNet Article CIDA: foreign "aid" in name only? -
- Thursday, Sep 27, 2007
Commentary It appears that the US is planning an attack against Iran and Ottawa is pitching in to help. - All Most Recent Content

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