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U.S. can do little to save CIA-backed rebels in Syria
CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put serious pressure on President Bashar Assad’s forces, are now under Russian bombardment with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: Over the past week, Russia has directed parts of its air campaign...
Next defence minister will face new quandary in Syria: the Russians
Canada’s next defence minister – either new or returning – will have to hit the ground running right after the federal election as the crisis in Syria threatens to pull western forces into a conflict with Russia and undercut the war against the Islamic State. Russia’s decision to enter the Syrian war in support of that country’s...
Heartfield: A culture war will only tear Canada apart
There’s a striking commonality about the letters to the newspaper and calls to phone-in shows about the niqab issue. People on opposite sides use the same language: This is not my Canada. This is an attack on Canada’s fundamental values. I’m afraid that the niqab (or the ban on the niqab) will destroy the Canada where I grew up,...
The migrant crisis: Warnings from the Holocaust
A group of refugees and migrants on their way to the Gevgelijas train station, minutes after they have crossed the Greek -Macedonian border. (Socrates Baltagianni/Invision/Redux) American historian Timothy Snyder has a way with familiar historical moments—and they don’t come more familiar than the Holocaust—that turns them on their heads,...
John Robson: The West is sending messages while Russia sends troops
The antique destroyer Canada is contributing to Exercise Trident Juncture, for the usual purpose of “sending a strong message” to Russia over Ukraine, set off with a bang. Unfortunately it came from the engine room, and HMCS Athabaskan promptly headed to a British port for repairs. Which certainly sent a strong message to Russia, but not the one...
Russia’s other war in Eastern Europe
Sharifulin Valery/TASS/CP In the early stages of Russia’s initially covert invasion of Crimea last year, a woman outside the parliament in Simferopol told a Maclean’s reporter why she thought so little of the protesters in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, who had forced the departure of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor...
Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich denounces Russian 'invasion' in Ukraine
Belarussian author awarded for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage.” …read more Source: The Globe and...
Vladimir Putin’s new world order in the Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to officers as he attends Russia’s large-scale Center-2015 military exercises at Donguzsky Range September 19, 2015 in Orenburg, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) The civil war in Syria raged for more than four years and killed more than 250,000 people without an outside power dropping a bomb...
Joining Empire: Canadian Foreign Policy under Harper
Photo by ISAF Headquarters Public Affairs Office Since the Conservative government of Stephen Harper came to power in 2006, shifts in Canadian foreign policy have been a flashpoint of debate in Parliament, the media, and civil society. There is general agreement that a “revolution in Canadian foreign policy” has occurred, to quote Canadian...
Putin’s “Moral Clarity” Disguises Evil Intent
We as a nation are discussing ways to isolate and treat mental illness in society. How do we identify those who are mentally ill and get them help? These questions are also relevant on the world stage, as Russian President Vladimir Putin poses as the savior of the world. You know that moral confusion is taking hold in society when a conservative...
