(Niagara At Large is posting the following notice circulated by the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War on the March 6 launch by Canadian author Yves Engler of his latest book, “Lester Person’s Peacekeeping; The Truth May Hurt” at McMaster University in Hamilton. The book launching event will get underway at 6 p.m. with a presentation and question & answer session and will take place free of charge in the university’s Gilmour Hall Council Chambers, Room 111.)
Although Canada projects the image of being a responsible global player, Yves Engler has studied our country’s role as a willing helper to aggressive U.S. foreign policy.
At a time when government personalities and media urge our military to “protect” people in hot spots all around the world, we need to take a second look at the history of Canadian interventionism.
On Tuesday, March 6, Yves Engler will launch his brand new book, “Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt.”
Although Canada is moving away from the peacekeeping doctrine, Yves Engler’s provocative book suggests that Canada did not engage in pure peacekeeping since the end of World War II, but instead acted to support U.S. aims in the Cold War.
Yves is a leading researcher on Canada’s foreign policy. He will describe Canada’s role in a variety of countries, and our government’s motivations. Yves is happy to return to a welcoming Hamilton-area audience, and will be able to take questions.
About Yves Engler – Dubbed “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” (Briarpatch), “in the mould of I. F. Stone” (Globe and Mail), “ever-insightful” (rabble.ca) and a “Leftist gadfly” (Ottawa Citizen), Yves Engler’s five previous books have been praised by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others.
For more information about the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War visit its website at www.hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca
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The closer we get to American military imperialism, the dirtier we’ll get. There are still some unanswered questions about prisoner exchanges in Afghanistan.
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I think it preferable to divorce ourselves from US foreign policy as much as possible. We should declare neutrality like Switzerland and Sweden and save a lot of money, recover our good reputation and spend our tax dollars on education, health, the environment, etc. The US “Empire” is in decline and who wants to go down with a sinking ship? The greater the distance the less chance of being sucked down. The American people are basically good but blinded by propaganda and their governments have interfered around the world unjustly since WW2. (and actually before that eg Central America).
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I agree. It should be embarassing to us that Cuba has better health care (and they didn’t get it through privatization).
We are blind.
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Correction to above: Source data from from 1997 from WHO 2000 rankings puts Cuba at #39, Canada at #30, and the U.S.A at #37.
France ranks #1, and Italy #2. I don’t know if there are current rankings available. If anyone knows, please advise.
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