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  • 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.

  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland host a gathering of foreign ministers from the Lima Group, a coalition of countries formed to “solve the Venezuela crisis.”

    The Lima Group is falling apart

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 10, 2021 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Latin American governments are abandoning the controversial regime change alliance. Now it’s time for Canada to follow suit.

  • Globe & Mail fearmongers about foreign influence while ignoring US government funding to Uighur Rights groups in Canada

    Globe & Mail fearmongers about foreign influence while ignoring U.S. government funding to Uighur Rights groups in Canada

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on March 14, 2021 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    It’s curious how Globe and Mail reporters troubled by foreign influence over Canadian politics regularly turn to U.S.-government-funded groups in this country. Are they aware of this irony? Or is their purported concern about foreign influence really about demonizing China?

  • United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned recently that ‘vaccine nationalism’ is moving at full speed, threatening the health of billions in the Global South. Photo from Shutterstock.

    Canada is choosing corporate property rights over the health of billions

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on December 11, 2020 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Unequal distribution means the poorest countries are getting trampled in the stampede for COVID-19 vaccines.

  • Police station in Cité Soleil, located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Photo by James Emery/Flickr.

    Trudeau government remains silent on corruption and repression in Haiti

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 4, 2020 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    One way to evaluate the seriousness of the Trudeau government’s stated objectives in seeking to oust Venezuela’s elected government is to examine their policies elsewhere in the region.

  • China is currently preparing for a stronger pushback from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance including Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Image from Flickr.

    Canada’s membership in the Five Eyes alliance promoting conflict with China

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 3, 2020 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    It is time Canadians debate whether they want to be part of an intelligence group driving hostile relations with China.

  • How Venezuela helped defeat Canada’s Security Council bid

    How Venezuela helped defeat Canada’s Security Council bid

    Originally published: Yves Engler on June 26, 2020 (more by Yves Engler)

    Was Canada defeated in its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council because of Justin Trudeau’s effort to overthrow Venezuela’s government? Its intervention in the internal affairs of another sovereign country certainly didn’t help.

  • Meet the hired gun Ottawa is using to overthrow the Venezuelan government.

    Canada hires hitman to overthrow Venezuelan government

    Originally published: Yves Engler on Junt 17, 2019 (more by Yves Engler)

    The “Proposed Contractor” is Allan Culham who has been Special Advisor on Venezuela since the fall of 2017. But, the government is required to post the $200,000 contract to coordinate Canada’s effort to overthrow the Maduro government.

  • Class Struggle against Car Domination

    Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler

      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.  Critics have accused them of engaging in class warfare. In a much discussed La Presse opinion piece, Luc Chartrand denigrated the “supposedly enlightened urban planning” measures […]

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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