Category: Opinions and Debates

Two wars and no election debate

By Betty Plewes, The Mark, April 15, 2011 It’s time to start discussing Canada’s role in Afghanistan and Libya, and Canada’s declining global reputation. Co-authored by Hunter McGill and Ian Smillie. Under the Harper government, Canada has lost its way…

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Hubris and Tragedy

by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge From Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the witches brew of melting, spewing and exploding nuclear matter at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One, the history of humanity’s first…

Libya and The Holy Triumvirate

By William Blum, Anti-Empire Report, March 28, 2011 The words they find it very difficult to say — “civil war”. Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO — The Holy Triumvirate…

After Sendai

By Richard Falk, Counterpunch, Mar. 18-20, 2011 After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki there was in the West, especially the United States, a short triumphal moment, crediting American science and military prowess with bringing victory over Japan…