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Trump's Muslim ban first step toward re-establishing American dominance in the Middle East

| February 10, 2017

Trump's executive order to ban citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from the U.S., comes in flagrant defiance of all international humanitarian laws and basic human rights. This ban is not about protecting Americans from ISIS or "Islamic extremists". Instead, Trump's policy is the first step in an economic and political strategy designed to rebuild the American Empire.

U.S. will not tolerate foreigners acting like Americans

David J. Climenhaga

| July 31, 2016

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The United States will not tolerate the countries of the world acting like the United States, senior U.S. officials say.

In particular, according to U.S. officials speaking in a variety of media, the United States will not permit foreign intelligence services to act like U.S. intelligence agencies.

Troop trainers are combat troops:  Stop Trudeau’s escalating war

February 22, 2016 |

For more than a decade we have been told that just a little more bombing or training would solve the problems the West created.

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U.S. snubs its Canadian ally over electoral promise to withdraw fighter jets from Middle East

Roger Annis

| January 22, 2016

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The lead, Western warmaking/regime-change countries intervening in northern Iraq and Syria held a strategy conference of their ministers of war in Paris on January 20. The meeting made waves in Canada because Ottawa was not invited to attend.

Short-term jobs and profits notwithstanding, Canada's interests are not served by Saudi armoured vehicle sale

David J. Climenhaga

| January 11, 2016

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It's one thing to treat the execution by another country of a large group of political prisoners as a strictly internal matter, unsavory perhaps, but none of our fine, principled Canadian business.

It is something else entirely to treat an apparent plan to commit genocide or something very much like it by that same country as if it were none of our business.

Brad Wall's call to block refugees from Syria is just more of the same old conservative wedge politics

David J. Climenhaga

| November 18, 2015

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In light of the inevitably angry and emotional response to the Paris terror attacks on Friday the 13th, for which the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq has taken credit, concern among some citizens about the Trudeau Government's plan to bring Syrian refugees to Canada is easy to understand.

Critics are calling Trudeau's Syrian withdrawal 'un-Liberal.' And they're right.

Yves Engler

| October 30, 2015

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Right-wing commentators are calling Justin Trudeau's decision to withdraw fighter jets from Syria-Iraq "un-Liberal" and unfortunately they're right.

Fact check: Can Canada bomb ISIS without hurting civilians? Jason Kenney thinks so.

Nora Loreto

| October 2, 2015

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The claim: Liberal candidate Marwan Tabbara must apologize for accusing the Canadian Armed Forces of bombing Syrian children.

The refugee crisis: Harper Conservatives just can't spin it both ways

David J. Climenhaga

| September 6, 2015

For several years, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has played to the worst instincts of a significant portion of its political base by selectively publicizing efforts designed to keep refugees, especially poor ones, from our shores.

Now Europe's burgeoning humanitarian crisis has put this behaviour in the spotlight and the Harper government has found itself between a rock and a hard place.

Harper government anti-refugee measures include such activities foot dragging on refugee applications, favouring refugees based on religious affiliation, and a torrent of vilification aimed at refugee applicants, normally directed only to select audiences, that at times bordered on open bigotry.

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