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Oil, politics, conflict and Canada
October 9, 2018
A new book by Canadian energy economist John Foster shines a light on the dark geopolitics of oil and gas. It uncovers the complex and hidden motivations of governments, including our own, that lie behind military interventions, crippling sanctions and other actions in our name. See: Oil and World Politics – The real story of today’s […]
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Why Canada is right to send peacekeepers to Mali
April 3, 2018
20 months after the Justin Trudeau government formally pledged that Canada would re-engage in UN peacekeeping with up to 600 soldiers, 150 police and the provision of specialized equipment, an actual commitment to an actual mission was finally announced. The Aviation Task Force will include Chinook helicopters to provide urgently needed transport and logistics capacity […]
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Paul Rogers: Dangerous Signals in Trump’s State of the Union Address
February 6, 2018
In this trenchant analysis, Professor Paul Rogers, who has been cataloguing the manifest failures of the “war on terror” since its inception, demonstrates how President Trump appears determined to continue this folly. [George W. Bush] crafted not a new American century leading to a more peaceful world, but a wasteland: sixteen years of war, hundreds of […]
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Professor Paul Rogers on the Trump wars era
December 5, 2017
In his latest article, The Trump wars era (OpenDemocracy.net, 30 November 2017), Professor Paul Rogers, International Security Advisor at Open Democracy, outlines the terrifying augmentation of military force by the Trump administration. Because of its importance, we include it below in its entirety. “A new era is opening almost by stealth. Its defining feature is military expansion, ordered […]
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