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Peggy Mason: Countering Islamic State: A failing strategy

April 3, 2015

By Peggy Mason CCPA Monitor, April 1, 2015 The U.S.-led air campaign being waged in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State features a cast of regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, whose repressive governance, gross human rights abuses and stifling of political dissent fuel the very terrorism the West says […]

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Can’t tell the players without a program

March 17, 2015

Author and former NDP Federal Secretary Gerald Caplan comments on the incongruity of Canada getting involved in a multilayered sectarian war in the Middle East: March 13, 2015 Dear Mr. O’Malley, or may I call you Peter? Thank you for your letter and your highly perspicacious questions. You write: “Harper has now decided that Canada […]

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