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  • Image from a US protest against US/NATO’s actions in Libya. Image credit: Al Mayadeen English

    Hear no NATO evil, see no NATO evil

    Originally published: The Canada Files on September 18, 2023 (more by The Canada Files)  |

    To maintain public support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s proxy war with Russia, it’s important to erase its history of violence. The Canadian media’s refusal to mention NATO’s role in Libya’s instability partly reflects the requirements of Ukraine propaganda. 

  • What the Dream EDSAs of Urban Planners and Architects Look Like (2020 Update!) - EnP Tinio

    Left, right and centre blind to crazy car culture

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on September 5, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Corporate and capitalist forces are driving us toward civilizational collapse but institutional myopia and crass electoralism also play their parts in the unfolding planetary tragedy.

  • Canada’s ‘left-wing’ party

    The NDP has been co-opted by Western imperialism

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 30, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Since its founding, Canada’s ‘left-wing’ party has broadly supported the U.S. empire.

  • Indonesian sulfur miners carrying their 90 kilogram loads of sulfur from the floor of the volcano to crater rim, Ijen Volcano, Banyuwangi Regency, East Java, February 9, 2015. Photo by Uwe Aranas/CEPhoto/Flickr.

    Alpha dog of extractivism pushes status quo

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 18, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Ottawa has long undermined efforts by impoverished countries to draw greater benefits from their natural resources.

  • Operation Naberius military training

    Democracy far down list of Canadian interests in Niger

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on August 8, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Military coups are generally bad. Foreign invasions even more so. What then to think of the situation in Niger? While the political situation in the west African country is fluid, some facts are incontrovertible. An (at least nominally) elected president was ousted by the presidential guard after demoting its leader. The pro U.S./French President Mohamed […]

  • Photo credit: Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill/Facebook

    Spy on your fellow (pro-Palestinian) students to get a scholarship

    Originally published: The Canada Files on June 5, 2023 (more by The Canada Files)  |

    Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) offers scholarships to proponents of the world’s most aggressive European settler colonial outpost. It’s a small part of a broader campaign to harass internationalist activism at Canadian universities. 

  • Image created for anti-mining protest in front of Canadian embassy

    Big bad Canada pushes to protect profits from Mexico

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on May 11, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    The Trudeau government is pressing Mexico to maintain its loosely regulated, pro-capitalist mining policies.

  • A 16-year-old teenager was arrested for burning an Israeli flag in Montreal. (Photo: video grab)

    Hypocritical outrage: What’s wrong with burning flag of an Apartheid State?

    Originally published: Palestine Chronicle on May 1, 2023 (more by Palestine Chronicle)  |

    On Wednesday a Montréal teenager filmed himself taking five Israeli flags attached to the outside fence of Hebrew Foundation School in the borough of Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO). With Arabic music playing in the background, he subsequently burned them.

  • Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky

    Canadian ambassador okays terrorist bombing of blogger

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on April 6, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    What do you call it when a Canadian ambassador justifies the placing of a bomb in a café to kill a prominent member of the media and which injures dozens of others? Diplomacy?

  • Justin Trudeau

    Let’s compare China’s ‘agents’ in Canada to Israel’s

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on March 11, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    What would happen if the media and intelligence agencies applied the same standard used regarding China to the Israel lobby?

  • Haitian police Port-au-Prince July 7 2022

    Canada supports oligarchic gangsterism in Haiti

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on September 6, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Rosa Luxemburg popularized the dictum “Socialism or Barbarism”. Since World War I Leftists of various stripes have adopted or modified the maxim. In Haiti the struggle has been between those seeking “poverty with dignity” and oligarchic gangsterism. Unfortunately, Canada has been on the side of barbarism.

  • Image Canadians for Justice & Peace in Middle East

    Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on August 31, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?

  • Court

    B’nai Brith’s lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on July 29, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).

  • Intellectual prostitutes call critics foreign agents, useful idiots

    Intellectual prostitutes call critics foreign agents, useful idiots

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on June 12, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    A military funded academic, working at a school launched by Condoleezza Rice, claims leftist and anti-war journalists engage in Russian disinformation. His report doesn’t provide any evidence or refute anyone’s argument, but the legacy media laps it up.

  • Canadian National Democratic Party

    NDP onboard with Cons, Liberals in warmongering over Ukraine

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on May15, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Canada’s “left wing” party is openly opposed to negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.

  • JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA, BRIEFS PRESS ON THE SIDELINES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL DEBATE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT UN HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2018. (PHOTO: LAURA JARRIEL/UN PHOTO)

    Trudeau speech latest example of weaponizing antisemitism to defend Israel

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on October 26, 2021 (more by Mondoweiss)  |

    Charges of antisemitism are being used as a weapon to weaken Palestinian solidarity. It is time for this tactic to be called out and confronted head-on.

  • Pigs and Canadian imperialism

    The curious case of Haitian pigs and Canadian imperialism

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on October 11, 2021 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Pigs and Canadian imperialism. Most people would have difficulty understanding the connection. But for many Haitians the relationship is a historical memory.

  • Justin Trudeau meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 2015 G20 summit in Turkey.

    Reactionary anti-China propaganda not in Canada’s self-interest

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on September 28, 2021 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Engler: We must reject great-power rivalry and pursue an independent foreign policy

  • Stand on Guard for Whom?

    Canadian imperialism in Africa

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on September 13, 2021 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    Canadian imperialism in Africa has had a rare social media moment.

  • Lima Group

    Lima Group loses Lima

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on August 11, 2021 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    The Canadian instigated Lima Group has been dealt a probably fatal blow that ought to elicit serious discussion about this country’s foreign policy. But, don’t expect the media or politicians to even mention it.

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