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U.S. will not tolerate foreigners acting like Americans
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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.

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Our friends the Gulf sheikhs and the case of Salim Alaradi

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Acknowledging Canada's complicity in the Libyan catastrophe

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The dystopian situation in Libya is so persistent that when we hear news of yet another slaughter, or the fragility of the new unity government, or ISIS taking over large swaths of the country, we just file it under "old news" and wait for the next story. 

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Ottawa's brilliant jobs program: War in the Middle East
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Scott Vrooman
| February 17, 2016

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A lot of economists look down on government job creation programs as ineffective bureaucratic excess. But there's one industry where make-work projects are currently paying big dividends: the military.

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The Voice of Libyan Women: Alaa Murabit reclaiming identity, country and faith
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Christopher Majka
| November 29, 2015

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Misplaced sorrow ignores facts on the ground of Syrian refugee crisis
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Eva Bartlett
| September 9, 2015

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The photo of Alan Kurdi has been a centre of social-media attention, with well-intentioned people sharing the tragedy he, his family and countless other Syrians (who were fleeing the violence of NATO's death squads) suffered.  A photo of an innocent dead child always hits the heart more than reading about the thousands of dead children martyred by the same NATO/Saudi/Zionist death squads' within Syria.

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The refugee crisis: Harper Conservatives just can't spin it both ways
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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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PM announces that Canada has lifted economic sanctions against Libya in Septemb
Harper's violation of international law in Libya
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Yves Engler
| August 28, 2015

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Since the start of the Canadian election campaign a series of posts have detailed the Harper Conservatives repeated abuse of power. The Tyee published "Harper, Serial Abuser of Power," which listed "70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law." But the widely disseminated list omitted what may be the Conservatives' most flagrant – and far-reaching –lawbreaking. In 2011 Ottawa defied UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1970 and 1973, which were passed amidst the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule in Libya.

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Libya v. Alberta: No danger of regime change in flat 'broke' Alberta
By
David J. Climenhaga
| February 10, 2015

Political stability in Alberta? We've got it!

That may be one unheralded benefit of electing Progressive Conservative governments decade after decade here in Alberta -- there’s almost no chance Western air forces will bomb the crap out of us to engineer what is charmingly known in geopolitical circles nowadays as "regime change."

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Rise of Boko Haram linked to U.S. foreign policy in Africa

January 28, 2015
| Boko Haram rose to prominence last year when they kidnapped 276 schoolgirls. They now control large areas of northeastern Nigeria. Ajamu Baraka says this rise is linked to the NATO attack on Libya.
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