But I think there’s a 12 plane minimum before you get anything good, like Amir al-Mu’minin’s Lamberghini. Next up I hear we’ve been offered a couple of sewage treatment plants and a paint recycling center.
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Dead Wild Roses: Canada Versus ISIS – Don’t Buy The Imitation Soundwave Steven Harper!
Canada has sent CF-18’s to participate in the bombing of ISIS. I think this is a very bad idea and I need to tell you a story from my childhood to illustrate why. This whole sending planes overseas to bomb people reminds me of one Christmas I had the pleasure
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Russell Brand Re-Spins Stephen Harper, Expertly
Politics, Re-Spun hereby bestows honourary Canadian and Politics, Re-Spun citizenship upon Russell Brand for his precise and effective re-spinning of Steve Harper and his soft fascist, neo-conservative manipulation of most of last week. And we all need to think more carefully about “convenient murders.” His new passport is in the
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Will Canada have a snap election over new anti-terrorist laws and ISIS?
Big Brother is watching … There is a clear fault line between the two opposition parties, and PM Stephen Harper’s policies with regard to how to combat ISIS. The Conservatives favour actual fighting (planes dropping bombs etc.), while the opposition parties are against this. The NDP is further from the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s Experiment to Wrap Canadians in "Protective Stupidity" Mission Accomplished?
The Tyee’s Murray Dobbins laments the success Stephen Harper has had, with the powerful support of a shamelessly collaborative media, at manipulating the Canadian public. Harper’s amoral political calculations about who and when to bomb people has little to do with any genuine consideration of the geopolitical situation or what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religious Child Abuse
Our imperial conquests in the Middle East are, of course, busily blowing up in our face. The new normal is a murderous state of higgledy-piggledy brought on by us wiping out the quasi-stable societies that had kept the peace (of sorts). Because nothing says we love peace like bombing the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Madness of King Stephen
As excuses for war go, claiming a conflict to be “noble” is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. It’s something you resort to when there’s simply nothing left to pull out of your ass. “Squires, attend your Lords. Summon the Heralds. To the jousts! Ah, there’s a noble scent
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Iraq Debate: The Center Of Gravitas Shifts
…to Jean Chretien. Mind you, I’m not particularly set in my opinions re Canada’s contribution to the fight against ISIS. These thoughts still apply, more so, perhaps, now that the tide seems to have turned in Kobani. But JC’s main point, that there are more roles to be played in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sousse Tunisia – Fun in the Sun and ISIS Recruitment Hotbed
Who could ask for anything more. A great beach, a good discotheque and an opportunity for martyrdom for the win! Over a million tourists from around the world visit Sousse, Tunisia every year. And, while the coastal city boasts pristine beaches and world class hotels, recently, hordes of local
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Bomb’Em All – Well Except the Kurds, Maybe
By now we’ve all been well steeped in the brutal excesses of ISIS – beheadings, mass executions, torture – in Middle Eastern parlance, the full nine yards. And so we’re off to Kuwait from where we’ll launch air strikes against ISIS forces in Iraq. Well, since we’re going all the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Something We Are Not Supposed To Think About In The War On ISIS
The Guardian reports the following: Australian Super Hornets pulled out of an air strike on an Islamic State target in Iraq when the risk of killing civilians became too high, defence officials have revealed. RAAF aircraft have carried out three missions in Iraq since joining the battle against Isis but
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Are We Getting Ourselves Into?
Before long the Middle East will look like a parking lot for Western jet fighters. The place will be awash in Hornets and Super Hornets, F-16s, F-22s, Eurofighters and Rafales and Tornados. They’ll be flying about over Syria and Iraq searching for something, anything to bomb into rubble and pulp.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Critical Thinking About The War Against ISIS
Contrary to what governments want their citizens to do, that is precisely what the following Star letter-writers are engaging in as they ask the right questions and point out what should be obvious about the war on ISIS terrorism: Chantal Hébert overlooked the sanest voice in Parliament when she analyzed
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Principled Abstention: Why Liberal MP Irwin Cotler Abstained From Iraq War Vote
Did Liberal MP Irwin Cotler rebel against party leader Justin Trudeau when he abstained from Tuesday’s House of Commons vote on Harper’s decision to drag Canada into an unwinnable military campaign in Iraq? The post Principled Abstention: Why Liberal MP Irwin Cotler Abstained From Iraq War Vote appeared first on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Regime: 90 Pound Weaklings When It Comes To Heavy Lifting
As I indicated in yesterday’s post, the Harper Conservatives seem very selective in ‘standing up for the vulnerable’; they just don’t seem to have what it takes to do the real heavy lifting that is required in our troubled world, preferring instead to utter bellicose rhetoric and put our young
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Some Recent History in the Middle East – ISIS and US.
Fascinating reading about some of the circular nature of events that are playing out in the Middle East as of late. This excerpt from the Counterpunch article titled Once More, Into the Quagmire. The Middle East Needs Our Military Might One can hear, in the reverberating noise of mainstream
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Curious Case Of Conservative Compassion
Some would say that the Harper regime’s justification for its decision to commit militarily to the fight against ISIS was patriotic and stirring: Said John Baird: “My Canada heeds the call’’…. “My Canada protects the vulnerable. My Canada does not leave all the heavy lifting to others.’’ Said Mr. Harper:
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Ten Questions about the Harper Government’s embrace of war with ISIS-ISIL-IS
Ready, Aye, Ready! Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird whips up the War Party in the House of Commons. Below: Stephen Harper, the prime minister, and Edmonton Centre MP Laurie Hawn. Stephen Harper, John Baird, Laurie Hawn and the rest of the boys yesterday finally got the war in Iraq they’ve
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadians – Say ‘No’ To Airstrikes in Iraq
Harper wants Canada to go on airstrikes on Iraq. That’s right. Canada. The nice ones, the peace keepers, the polite people, the bastion of warm-gooey-joy-joy feelings, the “we’re awesome because we can solve problems without bombing people” great white north. He wants us conducting air strikes. We have to tell
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Trudeau “cannot and will not” support Harper’s Iraq war motion
Responding to Harper’s Iraq war motion, introduced Friday, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said his party “cannot and will not support this Prime Minister’s motion.” The post Trudeau “cannot and will not” support Harper’s Iraq war motion appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
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