Archive » Tag: Al Jazeera
Canada and China, how the US benefits from the Ukraine war and more
December 4, 2022
An introduction to Canada’s new Indo-Pacific policy, some chillingly frank discussions by American officials on how the US is benefitting from the Ukraine war, and a look at Qatari efforts to promote women’s football at the World Cup are some of today’s blog highlights.
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Qatar and the World Cup in perspective and more
November 27, 2022
QATAR AND THE WORLD CUP IN PERSPECTIVE With the 2022 FIFA World Cup underway, there has been no letup in the critical articles regarding Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers, including frequent reference to the 2021 story in the Guardian that reported 6,500 migrant workers had been killed since 2010 and which suggested those deaths were […]
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Islamic State: The short and the long of it
June 18, 2015
In this very concise video (One Minute ISIL, Al Jazeera, 10 June 2015), Zeina Khodr gives us a basic primer on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “Many countries have vowed to destroy them, but they failed. What can stop them? Three words […]
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Situation report on Canadian complicity in Egyptian abuses
June 18, 2015
By supporting Egyptian President Sisi’s iron-fisted regime, the USA and Canada are playing into the hands of ISIS and Al Qaeda. Since February 2015, Egypt has been a member of the US-led military coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Other regional allies with equally egregious human rights records include Saudi Arabia […]
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