Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy - Yves Engler

Montreal-based activist and author Yves Engler launches his book The Black Book of Canadian Foriegn Policy in Edmonton on June 18, 2009. The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy sheds light on many dark corners of Canadian foreign policy: From troops that joined the British in Sudan in 1885 to gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean and aspirations of Central American empire, to participation in the UN mission that killed Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, to important support for apartheid South Africa, Zionism and the US war in Vietnam, to helping overthrow Salvador Allende and supporting the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, to Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan today. Engler's work has been praised by Noam Chomsky.

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[3treU]

The problem many people don't know anything about Canada and American real History, thanks for sharing your view from your book.

[YearOfTheSens]

HELP. Does anyone know where this took place?  I know it's in Edmonton, but I mean, which venue hosted it? A uni? Book shop?

[shnglbot]

@tantawi1992 "But you still fail to realize that there is no morality or ethics in how nations prosper or become strong"

really? i've 3x said i agree this is true (in the current economic/political system)

" I will be ashamed if Canada purposefully wronged them and violated human rights."

really? a couple days ago you said the opposite "I for one am proud to be a citizen of a western, first-rate country like Canada. And we did not get here without a whole lot of bullying and aggressiveness."

[shnglbot]

@tantawi1992 "So actually the 'victims' come to the west and have a more dignified life."

i disagree with this, & i could attempt to argue against it w evidence to back me up. but for argument's sake let's assume it's true. even then, the situation is still horribly unjust. the majority of humanity, billions upon billions, do not live in the west. but "fuck em", right? i mean, who gives a shit? (sarcasm intended.)

it seems u care only about yourself and perhaps those who you think are "like you"

[shnglbot]

@tantawi1992 alternatives have been articulated. most of them are utter crap. some of them are half baked but there's good stuff that's salvageable. there are a couple good alternatives out there, tho i see some flaws in each, and prefer to mix and match the best of what each has to offer.

but i'd prefer even the half baked alternatives to what we have now. you're totally right that in the current system, nations must kill thousands & impoverish billions to stay prosperous. that is horrible.

[shnglbot]

@tantawi1992 "as long as there are nation-states with varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses, and as long as these nations need to look elsewhere to ensure the prosperity and power of the nation, we will continue these wars. "

i couldn't agree more with this statement of yours. but that's why i advocate an entirely different system tho definitely NOT a "new world order" global-state. the alternative is too complex for a youtube comment. i suggest u read "Looking Forward" by hahnel & albert

[shnglbot]

(part 2)

@tantawi1992 But you think that we have only two bad options to choose from: (1) keep fighting for dominance while victimizing others, or (2) stop fighting for dominance and become victims. But it’s not a choice of dominate or be dominated. We can abolish the system that compels such behaviour. As long as we have an economic system based on competition for profit there will be war. Trying to modify our behaviour within the system won’t work.

[shnglbot]

@tantawi1992 But as sociopathic as your comments are there is some truth to them. It’s true that if the imperial powers did not use their militaries to fight for dominance and thus weren’t violating human rights all over the globe, these nations would soon be overrun by a new set of imperialist powers that would emerge.

(end of part 1)

[mikecorbeil]

I almost totally forgot to mention Kevin Pina's work of investigative reporting on Haiti after the act-of-war coup d'état committed by foreigners, France, Canada and the US, on Feb. 29, 2004, and it's definitely reporting, on the ground, that is strongly complementary to what Yves Engler tells us. SEE the Youtube channel longmemoryprod for these video reports. It's Kevin Pina's YT channel. And I also know of other sources for info on events in Haiti, but not YT ones; HaitiAction[dot]net, f.e.

[mikecorbeil]

Excellent complementary information is obtainable from Keith Harmon Snow, former CIA people, John Maxwell, Phil Agee and Ralph McGehee, among others and other people who worked in the CIA, FBI, MI5 and/or MI6. There're also Michael Levine, Mike or Michael Springman (aka Springmann), Lt Col Anthony Shaffer, of course former USMC Major General Smedley Butler, and former LAPD and NYPD officers Michael C. Ruppert and Frank Serpico Also hiddenfromhistory[dot]org. Et cetera.