Activist Communiqué: Vigil for Veterans – Ottawa
Vigil for Veterans - OttawaThe Deets:Thursday March 29, 201210:45 am startOttawa National War Memorial cenotaph, Confederate Square Then march to Parliament Hill Ottawa, ONThe Call Out:The Canadian...
View ArticleDirty Canadian War Criminals: 'Butcher' Bouchard To Replace Natynczyk?
Old Soldiers Fade Away - Goodbye to Gen. Natynczk But Who Comes Next? - by David Pugliesehttp://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/05/08/old-soldiers-fade-away-goodbye..."Chief of Defence Staff General...
View ArticleBook launch: Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety
Thu, Sep 6, 2012 Join authors Ian McKay and Jamie Swift as they dissect Canada's militaristic rebranding into a "Warrior Nation." FREEOnce known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized...
View ArticleHarper's winning strategy encounters huge setbacks
Can Stephen Harper pull it off again in 2015? That's the question many Canadians are already asking themselves. The Conservatives' winning strategy was to define the election as a choice between "the...
View ArticleCanadian War Department drones on with summer splurge
Monday, August 20, 2012With student activists away for summer vacation, it was the perfect occasion in late July for Carleton University to celebrate a new $40-million war-training contract. In...
View ArticleWhat Harper really thinks of Canada's vets
Remembrance Day has always sent ambiguous messages to Canadians -- are we celebrating the glories or the horrors of war? -- but the valour of those who fought has rarely been in doubt. To the dead we...
View ArticleCanadian vets victimized by national security state
Wednesday, November 21, 2012When Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose this year to spout his annual Remembrance Day propaganda half a world away in Hong Kong, the symbolic nature of his distance from a...
View ArticleExposing the hypocrisy in Toronto Maple Leafs''Forces Appreciation Night'
You can change the conversation. Chip in to rabble's donation drive today!Eighteen months ago, I launched a project called Left Hook, an online journal that would bring together progressive and...
View Article'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' begs for our collective attention
February 27, 2014Canada will officially end its military engagement in Afghanistan in March 2014 after losing 158 Canadian Forces personnel and spending billions of dollars on the war effort. So, was...
View Article'Worth it?': Canada exits Afghanistan
Mainstream media coverage of the departure of Canada's last troops from Afghanistan has, with very few exceptions, ranged from unquestioning celebration of the Canadian state's work in that country to...
View ArticlePhilosopher's Cafe: War, Peacekeeping and Canada's military
Sun, Jun 8, 2014 This exhibition presents work by three artists who have recently been deployed to different conflict zones, embedded alongside Canadian troops as participants in the Canadian Forces...
View ArticleThe Harper Conservatives don't care about veterans
The Harper Conservatives don't care about veterans For Conservative boss Harper, the priority for Veterans Affairs is clearly to help make his government look good rather than helping our veterans.
View ArticleColliding worlds in an Ottawa courtroom highlight Canada's gender-based...
Friday, June 20, 2014Trigger alert -- references to cruel acts of male violence are contained herein. An Ottawa courtroom recently witnessed the rare intersection of numerous taproots of violence...
View ArticleWhy the F-35 has been buried in a black hole
Somewhere in Ottawa, unknown to the outside world, there is a black hole -- a secret place where the government consigns toxic ideas, ideas that it dares not implement, yet cannot bring itself to...
View ArticleCanadian innocence lost? We never were a 'Peaceable Kingdom'
Friday, October 24, 2014After Wednesday's events in Ottawa, I want to comment on one version or account (yes, the dread "narrative") which was dominant in the reporting. It's the "unprecedented chaos,...
View ArticleLAV III monuments veiled celebration of Harper government policies
There is no shortage of excuses to talk about memorials in Canada these days. The Department of Canadian Heritage is managing three major projects, all slated to open by 2015.read more
View ArticleIf nothing else, the Conservatives are persistent
Love them or hate them, you have to concede one thing to the Harper Conservatives: They are persistent. Some might say stubborn or high-handed, even when wrong-headed. Once they have embarked on a...
View ArticleRemembrance Day is about the past, not the present
Friday, November 14, 2014Remembrance Days grow clearer in retrospect. They remember past wars after all, not wars happening now or about to happen. Those are contentious; they involve arguments and...
View ArticleMilitarism degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy
Wednesday, November 26, 2014As the Canadian government plays at fighting wars in Iraq/Syria and in eastern Europe, we see daily examples of how militarism ultimately degrades, disrupts and destroys...
View ArticleHow many Conservative cabinet ministers does it take to mislead Canadians?
How many Conservative cabinet ministers does it take to mislead Canadians?Last weekend, Stephen Harper trotted out his own trusty troika -- Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, Veterans Affairs Minister...
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