…stay classy. Canada was one of only 6 nations to vote yesterday against a UN resolution calling for Israel to open up its nuclear facilities for inspection. The others were the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. What lo…
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The Ranting Canadian: The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy is a…
The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy is a book by Yves Engler that was released in September 2012.
Here is the official description:
“Stephen Harper’s foreign policy documents the sordid story of the Canadian government’s sabotage…
Politics and its Discontents: Why Harper’s Award as World Statesman of the Year Is An Insult to All of Us
I cannot help but think that it is the Harper regime’s unqualified and uncritical support for Israel that accounts for his being named World Statesman of the Year by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, founded by an American rabbi in 1965. The state of Israel, which trumpets itself as some
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video Report: Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping – The Truth May Hurt
Lester B. Pearson has been dead for four decades, but his imagined legacy, that of international peacekeeper, remains one of the defining myths of the Canadian identity. Horrified by our murderous behavior in the occupation of Afghanistan and the bombings of Libya and the former Yugoslavia, the sainted memory of
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